Karolinska Institutet is launching the KI Pedagogical Fund-supported project Teaching for Tomorrow (TfT): Equipping teachers to prepare future ready KI students through integration of Agenda 2030, an initiative designed to strengthen educators' capacity to design inclusive, equitable, and sustainability aligned curricula across the health and life sciences.
Participating education programmes
Bringing together four participating programmes - the Bachelor's Programme in Biomedicine, Master's Programme in Biomedicine , Master's Programme in Molecular Techniques in Life Science (MTLS), and Master's Programme in Biostatistics and Data Science (BDS) - the project enables teachers and students to jointly develop and pilot pedagogical tools that promote global perspectives, academic literacy, and culturally responsive teaching.
Project leadership and team
The project is led by Tobias Alfvén (Department of Global Public Health) and coordinated by Jennifer Valcke (Unit for Teaching and Learning; Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics). The core project team includes Giulia Gaudenzi , Rachel Fisher , Susanne Guidetti, Helle Mölsted Alvesson and Nina Viberg , alongside active contributions from programme directors, course leaders, educational developers and students across the four participating programmes. The project is further supported by an advisory group comprising Karin Båge , Amani Eltayb , Natalie Jellinek and Maria Niemi.
Health and health systems are shaped by global forces, and our teaching must reflect that reality. This initiative helps educators weave global perspectives, equity considerations and sustainability principles into their courses, ensuring our students graduate with the insight and readiness needed to navigate an increasingly interconnected world.
Workshops to strengthen pedagogical practice
Two workshops, delivered throughout 2026, aim to strengthen teachers' capacity to design learning activities that promote equity, inclusion, academic literacy, and global perspectives - key aspects highlighted during KI's recent work on internationalisation, SDG alignment, and curriculum innovation.
We are excited to launch this interdisciplinary effort to pilot new approaches, involve students meaningfully, and co‑create resources that our programmes can integrate into their ongoing curriculum development. If we want future‑ready graduates, we must first build future‑ready educators, and TfT equips colleagues across KI with the tools to integrate sustainability, global perspectives, and transformative learning practices into their teaching.
The first workshop will take place on 16 April 2026, the second workshop in late Fall 2026, marking the start of a year‑long series of collaborative educational development activities between programme leaders, course directors and students.
