Create the conditions for streamlining the university's entire operational support

In the Vice-Chancellor's instructions for 2025 (dnr LNU-2024/179), University Director Therése Iveby Gardell has been tasked with creating the conditions for streamlining the university's entire operational support. The assignment in the instructions from the Vice-Chancellor is to review the costs, quality and development of operational support, with the starting point being that more resources should go to education and research. The review includes the joint university administration, the university library, the teacher education office and all faculty offices.

The background is that we need to relate to the increased costs in society in recent years, combined with the fact that the government has announced that there will be no increased funding for the higher education sector. This means that greater cost awareness is necessary. The latest budget bill means that Linnaeus University's education appropriations will be reduced by SEK 47 million over the next three years.

The aim is to balance the budget for operational support in the long term. More resources need to be freed up for education and research, at the same time as we also need to free up resources to develop the operational support.

In order to achieve a balanced budget for 2025, the costs of operational support need to be reduced by SEK 20 million. A further SEK 10 million needs to be saved based on the fact that appropriations will decrease in the coming years. Overall, the costs of operational support thus need to be reduced by around SEK 30 million, which, recalculated, corresponds to just over 30 jobs.

During the year, office managers, administrative directors and the library director, under the leadership of the university director, have worked together to identify efficiency improvements and savings in both the short and long term.

Based on this work, ten university-wide focus areas have been identified, where there are particular opportunities for efficiency improvements and development. The continued work on these areas is led by office managers and administrative directors. The university-wide focus areas with designated leaders are listed below.

The University Director decides on assignments for the managers in November. The assignments include providing proposals on how each area can be made more efficient, concrete targets for savings and developing a timetable. They must also produce impact assessments as a result of the proposals.

University-wide focus areas

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Do you have questions or concerns?

If you have any questions or concerns, you should contact your office manager or administrative director in the first instance.