1. KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ITM Faculty Club ITM Fakultetskollegium June 1, 2015 – The third meeting

2. Today’s agenda Future manufacturing in the metal cutting industry Camilla Engbrink, Vice president, Product management and R&D Sandvik Coromant New views on faculty development at KTH About the new KTH Faculty Assembly (previously fakultetens förtroenderåd) Jan Wikander and Pär Jönsson Reflections within the ITM Faculty Club Mingling & refreshments

3. ITM Faculty Club – why? Encourage exchange of ideas, experiences and findings Inspire to, learn from, and create mechanisms for improving our academic quality Networking – building the ITM community A forum for inspiration Communicate and reflect on joint school initiatives A forum for gathering feedback from faculty on new KTH initiatives, rules and regulations

4. New views on faculty development at KTH Much stricter process before approval of opening a new faculty position Strict control by KTH Faculty council and its Employment Committee A faculty position: Tenure track: Assistant professor, associate professor, professor Promotions handled by the Promotion committee Adjuncts Adjunct and guest professors Researchers Still up to the school to decide and handle New support program: “Forskarprogrammet”

5. A new instrument: Faculty development plans Each school is supposed to maintain strategic faculty development plan a)Mapping of all existing faculty positions for each year and eight years ahead (a table template is provided). Gender is also mapped. b)Planned new recruitments over the coming eight years and within the existing financial frame c)Total resources (basic education; research and research education; external short term, external long term) Within ITM, these plans are to be developed and maintained on unit level, then aggregated to department and school levels

6. Opening a new faculty position Researchers – up to the school All other faculty positions: a)Describe relation to strategic faculty development plan including how the new position fits into existing activities b)Describe reason behind the position in terms of education and research and specify the subject area c)Provide an analysis of the subject area in relation to external competitors, including potential development within the area d)The subject area should be illuminated in a gender perspective e)Funding and work plan for the first 4 years f)Demonstrate that funding and other conditions are met also in an 8 year perspective

7. Opening a new faculty position Funding requirements a)”In the normal case, faculty positions (excluding researchers) should be financed by basic education and faculty funding and not be dependent on external funding” b)Required funding levels  Professor: 2 MSEK  Associate professor: 1,5 MSEK  Assistant professor: 1 MSEK c)Start-up package for new recruitments; “on the level of a new PhD student” Amount of teaching a)20 – 60% except for assistant professor where it is max 30%

8. Faculty at ITM The total ITM faculty is made up of 201 persons, whereof 20% (41) are women and 80% (160) are men. 17 of the faculty will retire up to 2017 => need to recruit personnel!

9. Assistant professors Currently: 5 assistant professors, of which all are men

10. New faculty positions Assistant professors = 8 Associate Professors = 5 Lecturer (adjunkt) = 2 Note, that a large faculty will be recruited in connection with the building up of the research and education in Södertälje! In the current plan there are 8 new faculty positions 3 professorships and 5 associate professors

11. Promotions Handled by the promotions committee Key criteria for promotion to associate professor a)A PhD degree, b)Pedagogical skills, c)Ability to attract funding for and run research projects d)Ability lead education and research activities

12. Promotion Application for promotion to Professor The Faculty Council asks the School to give a statement on whether the promotion is desirable, taking into consideration the position´s duties, the focus of the operations, the applicant´s ability to lead educational and research activities and their ability to collaborate with the surrounding society Application for promotion to Associate Professor The Faculty Council asks the School to provide a statement regarding applicant´s ability to lead educational and research activities and their ability to collaborate with the surrounding society

13. KTH Faculty assembly “In order to ensure and enhance the faculty’s access to information and to influence processes and decisions, KTH has a Faculty Assembly. The primary task of the Assembly is to firmly establish and communicate issues of particular importance with KTH’s faculty.” The Faculty assembly has 70 members of which 8 will be ITM representatives The ITM representatives of the KTH Faculty assembly should use the ITM Faculty Club as a natural point of access to our faculty.

14. Election procedure to June 2: ITM nomination committee decides on their proposal for ITM delegates in the KTH faculty assembly June 3:Election procedure, voting list and the committee’s proposal are announced June 4-11: Time for nomination for additional candidates June 12: All nominations are presented and the web-based election system is opened. June 12-22: Election period June 25: Election result is presented