Organisation and governance of Future Education at KTH

The latest decision on programme management, program organisation and mandate was made by President Anders Söderholm on 2025-06-03: Decision on program management and program organisation for the change programme Future Education ( HS-2025-1273 1.1 ). All decisions made so far on Future Education can be found under Decisions .

Organisation and governance

Programme owner and Steering group

The President Anders Söderholm is programme owner and KTH's Management team is the change programme's steering group.

Programme management team

The programme management team took office on 1 December 2022 and leads and coordinates the change programme Future Education at a KTH-wide level. In November 2024, Anna Jerbrant took over as programme manager from Joakim Lilliesköld. As of January 2025, the programme management team consists of five programme managers with all schools represented.

Mandate delegated by the President

• Appoint framework leaders (principle leaders and cluster leaders)
• Decide on the distribution of the funds allocated to Future Education

Programme management work assignments

The joint work assignments of the programme management are mainly to:

• Lead the Future Education programme
• Identify needs for change
• Prioritise activities that drive educational development forward
• Facilitate the exchange of experience, learning and value-creating activities within the programme
• Propose, prioritise and anchor proposals for development projects and joint school and operational support initiatives within the programme
• Follow up on development projects and initiatives and their development within the programme
• Communicate the programme and its development internally and externally.

Core team

The programme's Core Team consists of all school’s Directors of First and Second Cycle Education (GA) and Deputy GAs as well as student representatives from the Student Union, THS. This group meets regularly (approximately every three weeks) and based on the meeting's agenda, representatives from the university operational support are also invited to participate and capture KTH as a whole.

Strategic support group

The strategic support group consists of the Dean, Vice president for international relations, Vice president for research, Deputy university director, Head of the department of learning, and Group leader for management and decision support in the management office.

Reference group within university administration

The reference group within university operational support consists of the Head of the department for educational support, the IT manager, the Head of the property department, the Chief librarian, the Head of the communications department, the Chairman of the education sub-portfolio and the Programme manager for the development programme for operational support.

Programme manager

The assignment as Programme manager corresponds to 50% of full-time.

Deputy programme manager

The assignment as Deputy programme manager corresponds to 10-20 % of full-time .

Assistant programme manager

The assignment as Assistant programme manager corresponds to up 10 % of full-time .

Support for the managers

The support for the programme managers consists of a programme coordinator and a programme communicator.

Programme coordinator

The assignment as programme coordinator corresponds to up to 40 % of full-time.

Programme communicator

The assignment as programme communicator corresponds to 100 % of full-time.