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Throughout 2023, a project is underway to launch KI RIMS, our new system for managing our research information. It will make managing information about both individuals and different groups easier, and it will give researchers the opportunity to make information about their own research more visible than today.

Readership of news articles written by KI researchers for The Conversation jumped 62 percent on the year in 2022. Since KI became a member two years ago, 43 researchers have penned over 42 articles, reaching around 3.8 million readers worldwide. “I have never experienced such a response to my research before,” says postdoc Filip Gedin.

Karolinska Institutet awards grants from a large number of foundations and funds. The foundations and funds award research and travel grants.

Tips from KI Grants Office about current calls.

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

From the 31 January 2023, all new clinical trials shall be registered in the EU-joint web portal Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS). CTIS is replacing the old web portal EudraCT. Everything regarding the clinical trial is now managed in one system, compared to the previous procedure for clinical trials applications.

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Clinical Studies Sweden launches a new national web page to support clinical studies in Sweden. The web page is aimed at researchers, research staff and life science companies that conduct clinical studies in healthcare. On the web page you can find support, services, training and information about the clinical trial units.

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Core facilities with funding from the Infrastructure Council will be easier to find for users. This is the purpose behind the project Digital profiling of KI’s core facilities, which began in spring 2022. Implementation of new, uniform templates for the facilities’ web pages on ki.se and in the booking system iLab is now underway.

Tips from Grants Office ragarding current calls

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

The procurement process for a Research Information Management System (RIMS) has now been completed and KI has chosen a supplier.

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

Tips from KI Grants Office about current calls.

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

During the spring of 2022 the Infrastructure Council rolled out two projects with the aim of increasing the number of users of KI's core facilities. One of the projects focuses on making research infrastructure available to business and industry, while the other focuses on improving web pages and searchability on the Internet.

Several researchers at KI have offered to host Ukrainian colleagues. Initiatives have been launched through, among others, the organisation EMBO, which supports research and researchers in the field of life science.

Do you have difficulty finding detailed information about Karolinska Institutet’s research and researchers on the website? If so, you are probably not alone. A project is now underway to improve search possibilities and presentation of research information within the framework of KI’s Information Management Programme and Strategy 2030.   

A year has passed now since Karolinska Institutet, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Stockholm University formed the university alliance Stockholm trio. Together, the three academic institutions seek to develop and promote the international research and education environment of the Stockholm region, and will establish a joint office in Brussels. Veteran of the EU scene, Dan Andrée is now laying the foundations of the office.

Karolinska Institutet's information management strategy was developed in Spring 2019 and is part of Strategy 2030. The aim is to create concrete, common and established ways forward for the management of information and data at Karolinska Institutet.

Hello Claes Frostell, professor and senior physician at the Department of Clinical Sciences at Danderyd Hospital who as of September 1 is KI’s scientific representative for two years.

Professor Claes Frostell has been named scientific representative at KI for a period of two years starting September 1, 2019.