Call for funding to strengthen ties between education and research
Close ties between education and research are essential to a university, there being a mutually reliant relationship between them. There are environments with both a strong educational profile and a strong research profile at all KI departments, but there is not always close interaction between them. The Faculty Board has therefore decided to issue a call for funding to promote fruitful ties between such environments.
University-wide collaboration
The funding may be applied for principally by heads of department with responsibility for beginners’ programmes (CLINTEC, CNS, DentMed, Labmed and NVS). Collaboration between departments, particularly over departmental boundaries, is encouraged. Heads of all departments are welcome to apply as co-applicants.
The initiative is expected to increase education-based research at the research-heavy environments by creating opportunities for participation in the university’s educational assignment. This is an important component for a researcher’s career development, but it is not always easy to find ways into teaching.
In the education-heavy environments, the challenge lies in creating opportunities for research and thus career development for the teaching staff who spend most of their time teaching. In this initiative, the Faculty Board has announced research funding for a maximum of eight PhD-holding lecturers or assistant senior lecturers amounting to SEK 500,000/person and year for three years.
A sustainable supply of talent in education is another challenge. To meet this need, KI must take the long view, starting with increasing the number of PhD-holding teachers in these fields. The Faculty Board is therefore calling for applications for the part-financing of a maximum of ten doctoral student places (75 per cent from the Faculty Board for four years).
Application process
For the principal applicant departments to be awarded funding, there must be interaction between research-heavy and education-heavy environments, in that employees from the former are involved in education. To find such collaborations, the research-heavy environments must contact the principal applicant departments.
The call is not open to individual researchers or groups, who are urged to contact their line managers or heads of department to discuss the possibility of the department submitting an application. The deadline is 1 July 2025. All heads of department have received additional information.