Lectures and seminars Introductory meeting for research staff: support services for researchers - Spring (Campus Flemingsberg)

Welcome to the event and general information about KI.  Ulla Tunkara and Vladimir Pabón-Martínez

Grants Office 

Grants Office provides support for KI internal research funding and pre-award support for external funding. Grants office also organises training on internal processes for larger applications and coordination of agreements.

Impact Support

Every one of us can make a difference and together we can improve society and human health. Impact includes social, environmental, cultural or economic benefits from academic research and knowledge.

Intellectual Property

In addition to research and education, KI’s mission is to interact with the surrounding society. Much of this interaction takes place in the business sector. For KI this entails the commercialisation and utilisation of intellectual property (IP) in order to develop new therapeutic methods and products of benefit to patients.

International Staff Services 

Karolinska Institutet (KI) offers support service for international researchers and doctoral students. Here you can find all kinds of necessary information for your stay in Sweden and KI.

Karolinska Institutet Career Service

Karolinska Institutet Career Service works to educate and advise students, doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and researchers for a future career inside and outside academia. We organize a doctoral course and a financed internship program for doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. We offer extensive seminars, workshops, lectures and online support.

Karolinska Institutet University Library

The University Library provides support throughout the academic life cycle, from first-year students to senior researchers. On the University Library's website, you can find all the resources and tools that the library offers for research, work or study at KI. KIB is a public library open to everyone.

Teaching and learning

The Unit for Teaching and Learning facilitates pedagogical and educational development at Karolinska Institutet. Our work includes pedagogical training, pedagogical support for the development of teaching and courses, creating forums for pedagogical dialogue and promoting organisational learning, support for the production of learning materials, and pedagogical infrastructure.

Equal opportunities at Karolinska Institutet 

KI's work for equal opportunities means that no one should be discriminated against or harassed because of gender, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation or age. For KI it is important to provide an inclusive work and study environment in which all students and co-workers are treated with respect and where the conditions are excellent for working and development.

Sustainable development 

KI contributes to sustainable development through research, education and collaboration. KI's vision is to promote knowledge about life and strive towards better health for everyone. It includes taking responsibility for the environment and social perspective for both current and future generations.

Core facilities for research

Karolinska Institutet offers a wide range of core facilities, providing service, recourses and competence to academic research in Sweden. These core facilities were all founded to meet the needs of the university’s own scientists, and they are under constant development to provide the latest techniques and knowledge within their fields of expertise. Karolinska Institutet is also a major partner in several national research infrastructures.

KI Postdoc Association 

The KI Postdoc Association (KIPA) is a member-driven organisation, which was founded in 2012 to give the postdoctoral community at KI a voice, a supportive network and representation. Our aim is to work closely with KI leadership and administration to achieve the best possible working conditions for KI postdocs, thereby making KI a more attractive place for postdoctoral training in the future.

KI Junior Faculty 

Junior Faculty is an interest organization of researchers with a PhD but not yet a permanent academic position as lecturer or professor. KI Junior Faculty aims is to promote development of a career system at all levels; through participation in KI boards and dialogue with KI leadership, funding agencies and government. In addition we provide support to junior faculty by organizing seminars, workshops and hearings.

KI Innovation AB - 

Karolinska Institutet has developed an unique system for innovation support with agents and organisations that in various ways can support the development of ideas and results.

Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship

SSES is a global platform for interdisciplinary education. Throughout our twenty-year history we have been elevating minds, generating ventures, forging connections and inspiring new ways of thinking. From the cutting-edge of higher education SSES provides free of charge courses, experiences and incubation for students and alumni of Stockholm’s top six universities: Karolinska Institutet (KI), the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack), the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), Stockholm University (SU) and the Royal College of Music (KMH).

Stockholm Dual Career Network 

Stockholm Dual Career Network (SDCN) offers career development and social networking to expat partners in Stockholm. SDCN supports its members to settle in Stockholm, search for jobs in the Swedish market, explore the Swedish culture, and broaden their social and professional networks. SDCN welcomes partners of employees of the network’s affiliated organizations.

Safety representative 

The Swedish Work Environment Act states that the employer and the employee should work together in the work environment management. Even if the employer has the utmost responsibility for the work environment, it is a stated requirement that the organized work environment management should be run together with the employees and their representatives. 

At Karolinska Institutet the three local union organisations OFR, Saco-S, and Seko represent all union members in negotiations with the employer about issues regarding salary and benefits, working conditions and the work environment.

OFR (Public Employees’ Negotiation Council) 

Saco (Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations)