New decision-making procedures and delegation rules in effect from 1 January 2025

Some of what’s new

The president’s delegation of authority to the deans and management group in the departmental groups is now incorporated into the president’s decision-making procedures and delegation rules. In short, this means, amongst other things, that:

• Deans shall coordinate activities within and among their departmental groups.
• Deans shall appoint the heads of department, support them in their managerial role and delegate tasks to them.
• Each departmental group shall have an advisory management group comprising heads of department and led by the dean.

The delegation of authority to the university director and heads of department has been clarified and amended. This means, unless other restrictions apply, that:

• Heads of department decide on service, funding and collaboration agreements up to SEK 3 million with a maximum term of 5 years.
• Heads of department decide jointly with the university director or the university director’s delegatee, on consultation with the dean, on service, funding and collaboration agreements exceeding SEK 3 million or with a maximum term exceeding 5 years. 
• Heads of department may generally delegate decisions on external agreements to their deputy or head of administration. 
• A safety committee (skyddskommitté) is to replace the current work environment committee (arbetsmiljönämnden).
• The University Library will have a clearer reporting pathway to the university director and will incorporate the Medical History and Heritage Unit. 
• The Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine will close down as activities in that organisational form have been discontinued.

Additional revisions of steering documents are possible in 2025 as developments proceed, particularly within many of KI’s priority focus areas.

The current Decision-making Procedures and Delegation Rules will be published in Swedish in January 2025.