{"id":275,"date":"2026-02-16T15:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r8993.hemsida.eu\/swedness\/?page_id=275"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:25:12","slug":"organization-structure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/r8993.hemsida.eu\/swedness\/about-us\/organization-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Organization structure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SwedNess is organized as a national collaboration between Swedish universities. Its governance structure includes a&nbsp;<strong>board<\/strong>, an operational&nbsp;<strong>secretariat<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>local node coordinators<\/strong>, and a&nbsp;<strong>reference group<\/strong>&nbsp;representing the research community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The board<\/strong> is responsible for the strategic development of SwedNess, including decisions on activities and budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman: Prof. Lars B\u00f6rjesson (Chalmers University of Technology), international representatives: Prof. Catherine Pappas (TU Delft, The Netherlands) and Prof. Poul Nissen (Aarhus University, Denmark), national academic representative Prof. Marianne Sommarin, (Ume\u00e5 Universitet) and an industry representative Dr. Marie Vennstr\u00f6m (Alleima).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The secretariat<\/strong> manages the daily operations of the research school, including course organization, coordination with partner institutions, and communication with stakeholders such as universities, research infrastructures, and funding agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Martin Sahlberg (Director), Assistant Prof. Martin M\u00e5nsson (Director of Studies), Dr. Mikael Andersson (Project coordinator), Camilla Dann (Administrative Coordinator), Dr. Cristina Paun and Kajsa Saykali (Communicators), and Karin Westlund (Economist).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To ensure strong national anchoring, each participating university has a local coordinator (UU, KTH, CTH, SU, LiU, LU), while the reference group provides guidance and ensures that the activities reflect the needs of the Swedish research community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SwedNess is organized as a national collaboration between Swedish universities. Its governance structure includes a&nbsp;board, an operational&nbsp;secretariat,&nbsp;local node coordinators, and a&nbsp;reference group&nbsp;representing the research community. The board is responsible for the strategic development of SwedNess, including decisions on activities and budget. Chairman: Prof. Lars B\u00f6rjesson (Chalmers University of Technology), international representatives: Prof. Catherine Pappas (TU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":86,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-275","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r8993.hemsida.eu\/swedness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r8993.hemsida.eu\/swedness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r8993.hemsida.eu\/swedness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r8993.hemsida.eu\/swedness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r8993.hemsida.eu\/swedness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/r8993.hemsida.eu\/swedness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/r8993.hemsida.eu\/swedness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions\/1216"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r8993.hemsida.eu\/swedness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r8993.hemsida.eu\/swedness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}