The 2025 project portfolio and kick-off for 2026 within Future Education at KTH

Tool for innovative drive

– Not all strategic educational development at KTH takes place within the Future Education programme. There are many many initiatives throughout the organisation; It's fantastic the innovative drive that exists at KTH, says Anna Jerbrant, programme manager, and continues:

– Future Education is the management's tool for strengthening this will to change and the drive for innovation by giving us dedicated time for the work through the funding that the Future Education programme can provide.

The Future Education programme also adopts a more strategic, holistic approach to our change initiatives. Partly to identify the direction of essential and strategically overarching issues that may not currently be owned by any designated unit, and partly to initiate KTH-wide projects that benefit KTH as a whole.  

Call for project proposals for 2026

The programme also has an established process that can facilitate both joint project management (initiation, financing, follow-up, etc.) and the sharing of knowledge, which in itself is always a project outcome. The application process for new projects in 2026 begins on January 15 (see process ). The proposal period ends on 16 February for submission of the schools’ proposals (note that each school may have internal deadlines previous to this date).

The Maxistudio and Tablets projects invite you to participate

The schools initiate many projects within Future Education, while some projects are carried out at the KTH-wide level.

Two of the 2025 KTH-wide projects are the Maxistudio and Tablets. The Maxistudio is available to everyone at KTH, and the pilot phase begins in January 2026. Podcast episode 70 (available here) provides more information about the Maxistudio and also shows how to book and use the studio in practice. The Tablets project (e.g. for digital assessment outside the computer room) is also open for testing by more schools. More information is available on the project websites: Further development of the Maxistudio at KTHB (2502-KTH)  and Tablets for flexible digital teaching and examination (2501-KTH) .

Thematic grouping of the 2025 portfolio

The 2025 project portfolio demonstrates both breadth and depth, and several clear themes can be identified through portfolio analysis. The themes are somewhat more flexible than grouping the projects by their main principles. The theme grouping thus complements the division of projects by principle .

Below is a list of all active projects in 2025 (just over forty), both new ones in 2025 and those from previous years that were still active, grouped by theme.

The main focus is on (see image above):

• Wicked problems and challenge-driven education
  Do students have the ability to deal with wicked problems? For all components of the education portfolio, do we conduct challenge-driven education (CDE)?
• Experimental and flexible learning- and makerspaces
  Can students apply their knowledge and skills in flexible and experimental learning- and makerspaces?
• AI in learning and teaching
  Do we actively use AI in learning and teaching? Is AI seen as an engineering tool in applications?

In addition, there is:

• Examination, admission and assessment of qualifications/credit transfer
  Do we have user-friendly, effective, and legally secure support for examinations, admissions, and assessment of qualifications/credit transfer?
• Educational offerings – flexibility and modularity
  Do we have an educational portfolio with modularised components that can be flexibly packaged and strategically valued?
• Educational offerings – subject knowledge
  Does the education portfolio have the 'right' components (subject knowledge) based on today's needs?
• Competence and culture for learning
  Do we have the relevant competence and culture for learning for all components of the education portfolio?

The project number at the end of the line consists of the decision year and serial number (no ranking function). The projects are listed in numerical order.

Contact

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