The University’s funding and targets for 2025
Photo: David Naylor.
Uppsala University’s funding target agreement for 2025 can be found on the website of the Swedish National Financial Management Authority (ESV). This year’s additions include study programmes in STEM subjects, as well as artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity.
In this year’s funding target agreements, new items are that universities and higher education institutions are to take steps to ensure that more students graduate from study programmes in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subject areas, which includes how to attract more women to these programmes where they are under-represented.
Universities and higher education institutions are also required to report on how they are working to analyse the need to develop their range of programmes in the area of AI, as well as AI’s integration into relevant courses and study programmes.
For 2025, the paragraph on information security has also been broadened to encompass cybersecurity and includes requirements for the University to report on its work in these areas, as well as whether analyses of threats and vulnerabilities have been carried out.
A couple of concrete examples of direct government funding from the 2025 funding target agreement are that Uppsala University has been allocated SEK 8.5 million to maintain the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament (AMC), and SEK 28 million for the National Centre for Knowledge on Men’s Violence against Women.
Johan Ahlenius
Facts
After the Riksdag (the Swedish parliament) has adopted the national budget each year, the government decides on appropriation directions for all state authorities.
Appropriation directions are formal decisions by the government on instructions and funding for the next year and describe how the authority is to work and how much money the authority can use. The appropriation directions often contain targets, reporting requirements and instructions for the next financial year.