Instructions for the Appointment Procedure for teachers at Karolinska Institutet
Instructions for the Appointment Procedure for teachers at Karolinska Institutet effective as of May 14, 2025.
- Diary number: 1-510/2025
- Dnr preg. version: 1-316/2025
- Decision date:
- Validity period: From 2025-05-14, unitil further notice
- Decision: President
- Document type: Guidelines
- Handled by department/unit: Akademiska anställningar
- Preparation with: The group for strategic competence provision, the Recruitment Committee and the legal department
- Revision with respect to: Change regarding expert assessment and requirement for employment as visiting professor.
Summary of the guidelines
These instructions regulating provisions and principles, such as the appointment process, eligibility requirements and assessment criteria, complement the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet (KI).
Karolinska Institutet's (KI) career system is a competitive career path for teachers and researchers at KI. The career system must be characterized by transparency and clarity - it must be clear to both those inside and outside the system what is required for advancement. The appointment and evaluation processes must be transparent, clear and pedagogically designed.
Specific information for assistant professors
For those who were employed as assistant professor as of November 1, 2024, the eligibility requirements and assessment criteria in these instructions apply when applying for promotion from assistant professor to senior lecturer.
Guidelines in full
Instructions for the employment regulations for teachers at Karolinska Institutet (1-23/2022) - valid from 2022-02-01
Karolinska Institutet's (KI) career system is a competitive career path for teachers and researchers at KI. The career system must be characterized by transparency and clarity - it must be clear to both those inside and outside the system what is required for advancement. The appointment and evaluation processes must be transparent, clear and pedagogically designed.
Special information for assistant professors
For those who were employed as assistant professors before 2024-11-01, the eligibility requirements and assessment criteria in these instructions apply when applying for promotion from assistant professor to senior lecturer.
In the instructions (1-23/2022) a clarification has been made regarding an incorrect wording regarding promotion to senior lecturer. The instructions (1-23/2022) state that the assistant professor must meet eligibility requirements and assessment criteria for employment as a lecturer to be promoted to senior lecturer.
Eligibility requirements and assessment criteria must, however, be applied in the same way, regardless of whether the announcement took place in competition or not. The assistant professor must thus meet the eligibility requirements for employment as a senior lecturer, an overall assessment of the assessment criteria for employment as a senior lecturer must then be made. However, all assessment criteria that Karolinska Institutet has decided to apply when promoting to associate professor must also be met.