Presentation about KI Evolution for Medicinska Föreningen held at MF's strategy day at Solvik 2013-06-24.

1. KI Evolution
Framtidsrådet
Medicinska Föreningen
Solvik
June 24, 2013

2. Framtidsrådet
• Mission: To ensure that KI continues to be an
attractive work place in the future
• Basically free to invent projects
– TEDxKarolinskaInstitutet 2010, 2011
– Work environment survey 2006
– Debate articles, Pubs, etc.
• Started 2002 under Hans Wigzell
• 8 members recruited among employees

3. KI Evolution aim
” The aim of KI Evolution is to improve KI
by helping it evolve into a better and
more modern university through
enabling, igniting, visualizing and
supporting ideas, initiatives and efforts
realized by past and present students,
alumni, researchers and staff. ”

4. Ideas Efforts

5. Efforts
• Well‐defined project or initiative that aims to
evolve some part of KI’s activity or operation.
• The effort shall allow others in the KI
community (students, researchers, staff, alumni
and/or friends) to get engaged in the effort.
• The effort shall not be a permanent job
assignment but be an addition to the regular
working operations at KI.

6. Ideas
Answer to the question…
How would you improve Karolinska Institutet?
Hur skulle du förbättra Karolinska Institutet?

7. Official launch
Rektorsinstallationen in January 2013
“Varje dag i varje hörn av KI kläcks fantastiska idéer om hur vi
kan utvecklas och bli bättre. Varje dag i varje hörn av KI pågår
ansatser för att utveckla någon liten eller stor del av KI.
Överallt ser vi hur det gror utmärkta initiativ. Och alla som är
en del av KI, som deltar i KIs verksamhet som studenter,
forskare, lärare eller medarbetare, bidrar medvetet eller
omedvetet till KIs evolution. ”
“KI Evolution är det paraplyet under vilket alla de insatser för
KIs utveckling som pågår, gror eller när som helst kommer
kläckas kan samlas för att tillsammans bli mer än summan av
de ingående delarna.”

9. Recruited efforts
+ Postdoc association
(+TEDxKarolinskaInstitutet)

10. Effort profiles example
Name of your effort
Framtidsnätet
Contact person
Madeleine Winberg, Emelie Ryan
Contact details
winberg.madeleine@gmail.com, emelie.ryan@gmail.com
Who initiated your effort?
Victoria Wang (former biomedicine student)
Who is the target group for your effort?
Biomedical, toxicology and bioentrepreneurship students from KI
What is the aim of your effort?
Through a mentorship program, matching students and mentors within life science: To help
students find alternative career paths/stimulate in actively thinking about their careers and gaining
insight about both industry and academia. To broaden their professional network.

11. Effort profiles example cont.
What changes do you envision as a result of your effort?
That students gain more knowledge about what they can do with their educational
backgrounds, both the traditional and alternative paths, and that students earlier
start to think about networking and what they want to do – minimizing the
surprises on examination day.
…or Have there been any changes at KI as a result of your effort?
The interest in the program among students increases for each year and we think it
becomes more common to look on careers in a broader perspective. Many mentors
also comes back year after year, although we unfortunately aim to have a small
group thus cannot provide all students with a mentor.
Timeline for your effort:
The program runs annually from October to September.
With whom do you collaborate?
BioN, KI Alumni & Friends

12. Effort profiles example cont.
How is your effort funded?
KI Alumni & Friends, historically also the Program Committee for the
Biomedical programs
How can others get involved?
Contact existing project leaders.
More Information:
This is very important for this group of students especially, since in
biomedicine, being KIs only academic education, the careers paths are not
very clear and this part is often missing in the education itself. For masters
in toxicology and bioentrepreneurship, this is of course a bit different, but
they on the other hand can benefit a lot from professional networking. For
all parties, this is truly pressing today when the life science industry is
evolving.

13. Pilot
From Wednesday May 15th at MEB & Neuro
Offline
• Posters
• Presentation at staff meeting
• Message on monitors
• Postcards in every personal postbox + common space
(140*4)
Online
• Website
• Twitter

20. Status
As of 24 June 2013 we have received…
• 23 postcards
• 30 online messages

21. Future plans
Starting in the fall of 2013 KI Evolution will be
expanded to hopefully reach as many students,
researchers and staff at KI as possible!
• Distributing postcards
• Online forum
• Promotion of efforts
• And much more…

22. Medicinska Föreningen
We hope that MF would like to partner with Framtidsrådet
so that we together can make KI Evolution an awesome
project that benefits as many as possible!
In particular we need MF for…
• Reaching students!
– New Students, Old Students
• Info and marketing
– Medicor, Thalamus, etc.
• Student led efforts
– Promote existing, inspire new
• And more

23. Contact
• E‐mail framtidsradet@ki.se
• Twitter @KIEvolution
• Facebook facebook.com/framtidsradet
(FB page is not fully active yet)
• URL evolution.ki.se
(the website is still a work in progress)
ki.se/framtidsradet
internwebben.ki.se/sv/node/12