Strategic direction for KTH’s educational offering

Mapped principles 

The project is mapped to the following framework principles:

P1. Essential subject knowledge

P2. Ability to handle wicked problems for a sustainable societal development

P3. Active student-centred learning

Definitions of the principles

Contact

Joakim Lilliesköld associate professor

joakiml@kth.se , 087906869

Profile

This KTH-wide project is implemented within the Future Education programme (project no. 2326-KTH).

Project context

In KTH's current chain of governance, the Vision and overall goals for KTH provide a basis for a three-year rolling operational plan. The reform agendas of the management and the operations units lead to commitments, assignments and measures in the ongoing operations. "Reform agenda" is interpreted here as what we need to do in 3-4 years' time to achieve our goals.

A general problem in all operations is to ensure the mapping between the overall goals and vision and the concrete measures that are planned; often a level of concretisation lacks between them. Very often there are also other strategic principles that should be integrated into the planning work. At the next operational level, the work can then partly become difficult to manage (even ineffective), and partly the situation can lead to a lack of organizational convergence between the parts - they do not form a whole.

KTH's educational offering is an area where such a holistic perspective is of utmost importance, in addition to the fact that the educational offering must be dynamic to meet future challenges and an increasingly high speed of change. As a starting point, a strategic direction should include the characteristics of and the relationship between different types of higer education qualifications.

Purpose (outcome)

The project aims to define a strategic direction and a decision-making basis for KTH's educational offerings, which will facilitate the work of defining more detailed goals and specific positions for the schools' development work in the respective reform agenda, by:

• strengthen the connection to KTH's overall goals;
• clarify the strategic direction in relation to the Principles of the Future Education programme.

Podcast #36

Fika Chat with KTH's President Anders Söderholm

Based on six criteria, KTH's education will be developed and renewed. The vision that KTH will take a leadership role in the transition to a sustainable society will also be reflected in the education offered. This was established in a  policy decision by the President 10 April 2024, but what does it mean and what is the background to these six criteria? KTH's President Anders explains all in this episode.

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KTH's President Anders Söderholm

Anders' blog

Project results (output)

• Inventory of previous change initiatives within the educational offering (lessons learnt)
• Proposal for strategic direction for the future development of KTH's educational offering in the form of a presentation, anchored with all schools and other relevant stakeholders.
• (if the project is successful:) Decision basis (with management of the decision process) for the President's decision for future implementation.

Time plan

Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2024-04-10

Project documentation

If you have a KTH ID, you can read the documents when logged in:

• Project initiation document: Projektdirektiv_FrU23_2326-KTH_Strat-Inriktning-UtbUtbud.pdf (Swedish)
• Poster: Poster_FrU24ht_2326-KTH_Strat-Inriktning-UtbUtbud.pdf (Swedish)

Results

• Inventory: Resultat_2326-KTH_Inventering-ansatser UtbUtbud (231031).pdf (Swedish)
• Proposal for strategic direction: Resultat_2324-KTH_Strategisk-Inriktning-UtbUtbud.pdf (Swedish)
• Decision: Resultat_2326-KTH_Beslut (V-2024-0331).pdf (Swedish)