In week five next year KTH inaugurates together with Södertälje Science Park a brand new campus for our Department of Sustainable Production. The whole week is full if exciting activities and seminars. Here are just a few examples of the more than 25 topics covered:
- Open house in the new premises – come and have look!
- Cyberphysical systems in logistics and production!
- Smart factories in Korea and Sweden!
- KTH-Lean: Leadership, holistic workflows and systematic improvements!
- On the way to heavy vehicle platooning!
- VR-glasses and GO-PRO in pharmaceutical production!
- Last but not least Kristina Palm and the undersigned will explain how we, together with colleagues, made it all happen!
You find the full program here
Every year during the fall there is a process of “negotiations” between the KTH schools and the KTH president. This year it has been a bit different from previous years, the reason being that we have a new president and after 1st of January we have a new organisation with five instead of ten schools. Based on this ITM has analysed how we perform and how we are funded in comparison to the other four schools. This has led to the following conclusion which we have submitted together with a comprehensive analysis and more concrete areas where we need more resources:
“The ITM School has the lowest base funding (fofu-medel) of all schools. ITM performs better than the KTH average in terms of PhD graduation. ITM performs as good as the KTH average in terms of attracting external funding (where we now see an increasing trend and expect to perform better than the KTH average from this year on). ITM succeeds in this despite the fact that we deliver a huge education volume in relation to our limited base funding. The conclusion is that our base funding (fofu-medel) must increase substantially through a specific president’s strategy in order for the current School management to take continued responsibility for the Schools positive development on par with the other schools”.
On Wednesday, December 13, we have the next negotiation meeting with our president. If the meeting is successful we will be close to a finalized activity contract, if not the discussions will continue….
Finally, I wish all personnel, guests and scholarship holders a very nice and rewarding Christmas holiday!
Jan Wikander, Dean of School