Manuals, guides and templates

Last changed: 15 November 2024

On this page, you will find links to data protection guides as well as to templates for various data protection tasks.

Data protection manual

In this manual, we explain some common concepts related to data protection, as well as the proper procedure for collecting personal data.

Data protection manual for supervisors 

If you are supervising a degree project, you need to make sure that any personal data that is part of the project is handled correctly. Find out what you need to know in this manual.

Quick guide to data protection in research

This quick guide is intended as a help for SLU researchers who process personal data as part of their research projects.

Quick guide to data protection when doing surveys

Important information for anyone planning a survey.

Legal recommendations for online teaching

What to think about when processing personal data in connection with online teaching, especially if you record lectures.

Transferring personal data to countries outside the EU/EEA

If you use or co-operate with another party to process personal data, you must know in which country the other party is based. This page contains recommendations from SLU’s legal counsel and other important information on the transfer of personal data.

Data protection templates (Word format)

Data protection training for SLU staff

As a public authority, SLU has a responsibility to prevent the improper processing of personal data. Our IT systems and procedures need to take the GDPR into account. If SLU violates the GDPR, we negatively affect citizens' rights and risk penalties but also damage to the SLU brand.

We have a better chance of avoiding these issues if we all have basic knowledge of the rules on personal data processing. That is why we have developed a basic data protection course to help you learn more about the GDPR and how to work with it.

The course consists of 6 lessons and takes 3-5 minutes per lesson. The course is automatically sent out to all staff, including new employees. The emails with the lessons are sent from SLU's training platform Nanolearning. The sender address of the message is therefore external (course@nanolearning.com).

Please contact data protection at dataskydd@slu.se if you have any questions about the email.

In order to send out the lessons, the name and e-mail address of employees are processed. Data on the time taken to complete the lessons, and the courses completed, are also processed. Administrators can see which department an employee belongs to. This data is processed in order to monitor the effectiveness of the training. The legal basis for the processing is public interest. Read more about how SLU processes your personal data.