External Engagement Office

EEO provides guidance and support for setting up and managing industry collaborations, including contracting, intellectual property rights, impact and other related questions.

We provide best-practice support for establishing partnerships with industry and other organisations. This includes setting up the appropriate collaboration frameworks and advice on research contracts. We also support researchers with advice on intellectual property rights and in understanding the societal impact of their research both when it comes to collaboration and when applying for external funding. Our Career Service is dedicated to PhD students, postdocs, and researchers, and provides guidance and opportunities for professional growth.

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What we do

We work to create new opportunities for researchers for partnerships with industry and other external organisations. We also provide support in setting up and managing long-term structured partnerships. 

Web page: Industry-academia collaborations

We provide advice and support in the early stages of the contracting process for partnerships. 

Web page: Support for research contracts

We provide inspirational activities and support to help researchers achieve impact and use of their knowledge assets as well as and how their research can address United Nations Agenda 2030 goals. 

Web page: Creating impact together

We support researchers in working with Intellectual Property from the perspectives of research financing and collaboration. 

Web page: Intellectual property

We work to educate and advise doctoral students and researchers for a future career inside and outside academia. We organize a doctoral course and a financed internship program for doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. We offer an extensive program of seminars, workshops, lectures and online support. 

Email: career-service@ki.se 

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Together with KI's researchers, we take operational and strategic initiatives for new projects in education, innovation and business development for the benefit of health care. 

Web page: EIT Health at KI

Staff and contact

Head of Unit

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