Educators' Day 2025: Learning and leading in times of change
This year's Educator's Day focuses on tools and strategies for managing workload, working life and well-being in the education role. How do we create safe learning environments where different opinions and values meet? We explore ways to create long-term sustainable learning environments that benefit students, teachers and supervisors alike.
Welcome to KI's Educators' Day 1 October 2025, campus Flemingsberg.
Date: October 1, 2025
Time: Full-day event (starting at 9:00 AM)
Location: Campus Flemingsberg
Language: Mainly in Swedish, but keynote speakers will present in English
This year’s Educator’s Day focuses on sustainable strategies for teaching and learning in a time of rapid societal and technological change. More specifically, the day will centre around the following three areas.
The Pedagogical Everyday: Discover tools and strategies to manage workload and promote well-being in the educational role. Learn practical methods for creating balance and sustainability in academic daily life.
Teaching in a Polarised Society: Navigate the challenges of teaching where differing opinions and values meet. Develop skills to create safe environments that encourage meaningful dialogue and learning from diverse perspectives.
Sustainable Learning Environments: Explore ways to create long-term sustainable educational environments that benefit students, teachers, and supervisors alike.
Program
09:00-09:05 Welcome
President Annika Östman Wernerson and Maria Watter, Head of the Teaching and Learning Unit, welcome everyone and open Educators' Day.
09:05-09:10 KLOK-prize 2025 awardees announced
09:10-10:10 Keynote speaker
Etienne Wenger, is an internationally recognized educational theorist and consultant, best known for developing the concept of "communities of practice" – learning communities where people learn from and with each other through social participation.
10:10-10:30 Q&A session
Q&A with Etienne Wenger.
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Panel discussion
Collegial learning that strengthens teaching
How can we at KI organise and develop collegial working methods that provide our teachers with support and inspiration in their teaching? In this conversation, colleagues from different departments share their experiences and good examples – and draw inspiration from international perspectives on Communities of Practice, based on the work of Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner.
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Workshops part 1
Several parallel workshops will be held, which participants can register for via mailings from the organisers after signing up for the day.
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:00 Workshops part 2
Parallel workshops continue.
16:00 End
Registration
About Educators' Day
Educators' Day is organised by the Unit for Teaching and Learning, on behalf of the Committee for Higher Education, and the Committee for Doctoral Education.
The Educators' Day is a meeting place for those involved in or interested in educational issues such as supervisors, clinicians and researchers.