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Future Education at KTH boosts its programme organisation

Group photo: two women and five men.
The programme management for the change programme Future Education at KTH. From the left: Daniel Koch, Gunnar Tibert, Sofie Kim, Per Fagrell, Anna Jerbrant, Mats Nilsson och Joakim Lilliesköld. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH.
Published Jan 29, 2025

Anna Jerbrant, new Programme Manager from 1 November 2024, comments on the latest programme organisation and plans for the spring. The new organisation will enable the programme to manage the extensive project portfolio and change initiatives in a more structured way supporting KTH's long-term visions and goals.

What the new assistant programme managers look forward to

Black and white photo of Daniel.
Daniel Koch, ABE: "I look forward to being able to contribute with knowledge and experience from conducting education that has a different character than much of KTH's teaching. At the same time, my experience is that it is possible to learn a lot about pedagogy in contact with other programmes to understand the strengths and weaknesses of our own methods and to see new opportunities."
Mats Nilsson, CBH: "Being able to closely influence how the programme is developed and hopefully become a greater concern for many schools in collaboration."

Just before Christmas 2024, the President Anders Söderholm signed the decision to strengthen the Future Education programme organisation. Since Anna Jerbrant (ITM) was appointed programme manager for the change programme Future Education at KTH, an important task has been to develop proposals for a new organisation and anchor them in the programme's steering group and KTH's faculty council.

New challenges and expanded mission

Amid a growing project portfolio and new remits, there is an increasing need for better representation and structure to manage the remits. As a consequence, the programme management will have representation from all schools in addition to a reference group from the University Administration will be established and principle coordinators will be appointed.

Since its establishment, more than 50 development projects that, in various ways, affect all five schools at KTH have been initiated within the Future Education programme.

"From the outset, President Ander Söderholm expressed the ambition for the projects to be scalable outside the department or school. We have seen that this places completely different demands on governance and project methodology - hence the strengthening of the programme organisation," says Anna Jerbrant.

With two new programme managers, there is a role distribution between the programme managers; Joakim Lilliesköld (EECS) and Gunnar Tibert (SCI) become deputy programme managers. The new assistant programme managers, Mats Nilsson (CBH) and Daniel Koch (ABE) will have more responsibility over certain parts of the project portfolio.

"We are pleased to have representatives from all schools on the programme management team while bringing in people with complementary experiences and competencies," Jerbrant says.

In addition, 13 principle coordinators will be appointed, mainly from those already involved in the programme organisation, who will be responsible for a given principle to ensure a more explicit focus on progress within the principle and knowledge sharing.

"We need better coordination of initiatives and activities that are ongoing in the development projects – so it was natural to organise based on the structure offered by the framework, " Anna adds.

Plans for the spring

In a changing world, plans can change quickly. But current plans for the programme management is to appoint principle coordinators, onboard new colleagues to the programme organisation, run the podcast "Fika chat on the future of education", continue to support ongoing development projects and initiate the process for a new batch of school projects in 2025. Furthermore, they will continue to work on external benchmarking and exchange with other universities (mainly Chalmers and NTNU) and increase cooperation with, for example, FEEAF*.

"In addition, we have recently been commissioned to lead the development of a draft policy decision for KTH's learning environments. The decision includes both physical and digital learning environments and affects many different functions at KTH," says Anna Jerbrant.

*Future Education External Advisory Forum 

Text: Sofie Kim

Organisation chart

Organisation chart described below.
Map of KTH's temporary organisation for the Future Education change programme.

Future Education organisation as of 2025

Read the Decision on programme management and organisation for Future Education at KTH (V-2024-1137)

Programme owner

President Anders Söderholm

Steering group

KTH's Management Group

Advisory Steering Group

  • Vice President for Internationalisation
  • Vice President for Research
  • Dean of Faculty
  • Deputy University Director
  • Head of Department of Learning
  • Group Manager University Management Office

Programme coordination

  • Programme Managers
  • Programme Coordinator
  • Programme Communicator

Core team

  • Programme management
  • Head of Educational Affairs, the Student Union (THS)
  • Dean of Faculty
  • All Directors of First and Second Cycle Education (GA) and Vice GA
  • All Principle Coordinators

Reference group University Administration (VS)

  • Head of Education Office (EDO)
  • Head of IT Department (ITA)
  • Head of KTH Library (KTHB)
  • Head of Property Department (PD)
  • Head of Communications Department (COM)*
  • 2nd Assistant University Director (leading VS development programme)
  • Chairman of the Sub-Portfolio Education (DPU)

*added after the President's decision.

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