A governing document can be binding or indicative.
- Indicative document: A declaration of intent and less detailed than a binding document.
- Binding document: Often based on laws and regulations and serves as a local adaptation of such documents.
Internal governing documents
Last changed: 09 December 2016
Internal governing documents are documents adopted by the SLU board, the vice-chancellor, the head of university administration, a faculty board or a dean.
All valid governing documents must be published here.
Only a selection of governing documents are available in English. The Swedish version is always the official version.
Agreements, decisions to recruit and appointments of members to boards and committees are not published as governing documents.
Governing documents by subject field
All governing documents are classified by subject field. A document can belong to more than one subject field, but is only published on the page corresponding to the subject field listed first in the document header.
Click on a subject in the list below to show all related documents.
- Visions and strategies
- Research and doctoral education
- First-cycle and second-cycle programmes and courses
- Environmental monitoring and assessment
- Organisation and decision structure
- Budgets, appropriations and assignments
- Working environment
- Archives and registry
- Financial administration, procurement, foundations and companies
- IT and telecomms
- Communication and media
- Equal opportunities/equal treatment
- Real estate and facilities
- Environment
- Human resources
- External collaboration and commissioned work/internationalisation
- Security and information security
Types of governing documents
Within each subject field, documents are classified by type. There are six types. Below is a summary description of each type.
1. Objectives and strategy
Visions and overall operational objectives, as well as measures needed to achieve the objectives.
2. Policy
A declaration of intent from a faculty or the university as a whole. Policies, together with objectives and strategies, are used to guide decisions and actions in the desired direction.
3. Delegation of authority/organisational decision
Delegations of authority describe the responsibilities and powers delegated to different bodies and officials. They are binding documents.
4. Guidelines
Guidelines are often based on laws and regulations, more detailed and adapted to SLU. They can also be a more detailed clarification of a policy. They are binding documents.
5. Annual planning and governing document
Annual planning and governing documents are budget instructions, operational plans with financial allocations, budgets and operational assignments. They are sometimes binding documents.
6. Instructions
An instruction describes how to perform a task or action. They are often used to specify guidelines.
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