{"id":1199,"date":"2024-02-20T13:33:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T12:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2024-02-21T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:00:43","slug":"new-room-mates-during-fake-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/2024\/02\/new-room-mates-during-fake-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"New roommates during \u201cfake spring\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In English further down.<\/p>\n

Nya rumskompisar under fejkv\u00e5ren<\/h2>\n

K\u00e4ra kollegor,<\/p>\n

2024 har vi satt ig\u00e5ng med en rad aktiviteter. En av de mest utmanande aktiviteterna \u00e4r att arbeta med en “ekonomi i balans”. Som ni har h\u00f6rt i olika bloggar fr\u00e5n ITM och fr\u00e5n KTH:s rektor under 2023, har kostnaderna, s\u00e4rskilt f\u00f6r kontor och laboratorier, \u00f6kat dramatiskt p\u00e5 grund av inflationen. P\u00e5 de flesta av ITM:s institutioner f\u00f6rs\u00f6ker vi d\u00e4rf\u00f6r utnyttja utrymmena effektivare, bland annat genom att l\u00e5ta medarbetarna dela rum. M\u00e5nga har efter pandemin vant sig vid att arbeta tv\u00e5 dagar i veckan hemifr\u00e5n, och d\u00e4rf\u00f6r \u00e4r det ganska tomt i de flesta korridorer. Om vi delar rum kommer fler m\u00e4nniskor att tr\u00e4ffas p\u00e5 jobbet och det kommer i sin tur att leda till fler m\u00f6jligheter till fruktbara interaktioner. I mitt fall kommer jag att f\u00e5 en rumskamrat p\u00e5 mitt kontor p\u00e5 MSE fr\u00e5n och med den 1 mars 2024. Jag ser fram emot detta, eftersom jag tror att fler m\u00f6jligheter till intressanta diskussioner om utbildning och forskning v\u00e4ntar.<\/p>\n

Vi har \u00e4ven startat upp fakultetsn\u00e4mnden p\u00e5 ITM. Ni har kanske l\u00e4st om de valda personerna i tidigare: Ledam\u00f6ter i ITM-skolans fakultetsn\u00e4mnd<\/a><\/p>\n

Vi har haft b\u00e5de ett m\u00f6te och en workshop, hittills mest fokuserat p\u00e5 grundutbildningen. Min bed\u00f6mning efter dessa f\u00f6rsta m\u00f6ten \u00e4r att denna grupp \u00e4r mycket villig att hj\u00e4lpa till att utveckla kvaliteten p\u00e5 ITM. F\u00f6rutom att hantera l\u00f6pande fr\u00e5gor om utbildningskvalitet, till exempel att godk\u00e4nna nya kurser, kommer n\u00e4mnden att arbeta med mer l\u00e5ngsiktiga kvalitetsfr\u00e5gor. Som du kanske har l\u00e4st p\u00e5 intran\u00e4tet har KTH tagit fram KTH:s vision och \u00f6vergripande m\u00e5l 2024-2028<\/a>. Fakultetsn\u00e4mnden kommer att ha en viktig roll i att ge input till hur den framtida utbildningen ska utformas f\u00f6r att vi ska kunna m\u00f6ta de krav som st\u00e4lls av KTH och samh\u00e4llet. Detta \u00e4r b\u00e5de sv\u00e5rt och sp\u00e4nnande.<\/p>\n

Slutligen m\u00e5ste jag kommentera mitt arbete som tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rdsm\u00e4stare hemma. I takt med att dagarna blir l\u00e4ngre och temperaturen stiger k\u00e4nner jag ett starkt behov av att f\u00f6rbereda den kommande v\u00e4xts\u00e4songen. Jag l\u00e4ngtar ocks\u00e5 efter att se ett tecken p\u00e5 blommor i naturen – en indikation att det finns en chans att v\u00e5ren kommer \u00e4ven i \u00e5r. Hittills har jag inte sett n\u00e5gra, men flera av mina kollegor har sett blommor n\u00e4r de promenerat i olika delar av Stockholm. Jag m\u00e5ste erk\u00e4nna att jag i \u00e5r best\u00e4mde mig f\u00f6r att prova n\u00e5got nytt, eftersom jag inte hade t\u00e5lamod att v\u00e4nta p\u00e5 att blommorna skulle dyka upp i naturen. S\u00e5 n\u00e4r jag planterade tulpanl\u00f6kar i tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rden i h\u00f6stas sparade jag n\u00e5gra som jag planterade i krukor i b\u00f6rjan av \u00e5ret. Nu kan jag se en grupp r\u00f6da tulpanblommor \u00f6ppna sig, vilket f\u00e5r mig att k\u00e4nna att min “l\u00e5tsasv\u00e5r” har b\u00f6rjat inomhus!<\/p>\n

\/P\u00e4r J\u00f6nsson, skolchef f\u00f6r ITM-skolan<\/p>\n

New roommates during \u201cfake spring\u201d<\/h2>\n

Dear colleagues,<\/p>\n

We have started 2024 with many activities. One of the most challenging ones is to work with a \u201cbalanced economy<\/em>\u201d. As you may have heard in different blogs from ITM and from the KTH President during 2023, the costs for especially offices and laboratories have increased dramatically due to the inflation. Thus, in most of the ITM departments intense efforts are ongoing to utilize the space more efficiently, by, for example, letting people share rooms. At the same time, it is clear that after the pandemic many people are used to work two days a week from home. Thus, it is quite empty in most corridors. If we share rooms, more people will meet at work and this, in turn, will lead to more possibilities to fruitful interactions. In my case, I will get a roommate in my office at MSE from March 1, 2024. I am looking forward to this, because I can foresee that I will have more opportunities to have interesting discussions about education and research.<\/p>\n

We have also started up the faculty board at ITM. You might have read about the elected people in earlier information from ITM: Members of the Faculty Board at ITM<\/a><\/p>\n

We have had one meeting and one workshop, so far mostly focused on the First and second cycle education. My judgement after these first meetings is that this group is very willing to help to develop the quality at ITM. Besides dealing with ongoing educational quality issues, such as approving new courses, the group will work with more long-term quality matters. As you might have read on the intranet, KTH has formed KTH\u2019s vision and overall goals 2024\u20132028<\/a>. The faculty board will have an important role in providing input on how the future education on all levels should be designed in order for us to meet these demands set by KTH and the society. This is both difficult and exciting.<\/p>\n

Finally, I need to comment on my work as a gardener at home. As the days are getting longer and the temperatures are getting higher, I feel this strong urge to prepare for this growing season. I also long for seeing a sign of flowers in the nature to indicate that there is a chance that the spring will arrive even this year. So far, I have not seen any, but several of my office mates have seen flowers when walking in different parts of Stockholm. I must admit that this year I decided to try something new, because I did not only want to wait for the flowers to show up in the nature. So last autumn when I planted tulips in the garden, I saved some which I planted in pots in the beginning of the year. Now I can see a group of red tulip flowers open up, which make me feel that my \u201cfake spring\u201d has started indoors!<\/p>\n

\/P\u00e4r J\u00f6nsson, Head of the ITM School<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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