If you are an honorary guest
As a new professor, doctor, honorary doctor, recipient of the Teaching Prize or MDU's Collaboration Medal, you are an honorary guest at the Ceremony. Below please find useful practical information you may need ahead of the Ceremony.
Attend
To attend the Academic Ceremony you need to inform us if you will be participating and therefore please let us know if you can participate or not no.
You have a link in your personal invitation.
Dress code
For all honorary guests and invited guests who will take part in the Ceremony and the banquet afterwards, formal attire is required.
Formal attire applies, which means a tailcoat with a white waistcoat and white bow tie, or a full-length evening dress. Other guests at the Ceremony may wear optional smart attire.
If you are to be conferred, please keep your doctoral hat or laurel wreath in your lap until the moment of conferral. After this, you wear the doctoral hat or laurel wreath on your head until the ceremony has concluded, and the recessional has left the cathedral.
If you have previously been conferred, you may wear your doctoral hat. Put it on at the same moment as the conferring professor and keep it on until the ceremony has concluded, and the recessional has left the cathedral.
The doctoral hat is not to be worn during the banquet.
Insignia
Insignia are symbolic items that are bestowed at the doctoral degree conferment ceremony. At MDU's doctoral degree ceremony, you can choose between a doctoral hat and a laurel wreath. Doctors may also order a doctoral ring. Please note the deadlines.
How many guests can I invite?
As an honorary guest, you may invite one guest to the Ceremony and the banquet thereafter.
Other interested parties are welcome to attend the Ceremony at Västerås Cathedral.
The minimum age for attending the Academic Ceremony is 18.
Photographs and film
The Academic Ceremony will be documented through taking photographs and by filming the event. If you are an honorary guest or have another prominent role, you will probably be included in the photo or film. The images may be published in public contexts and will be stored in MDU's image bank for three years, after which they will be deleted.
We at MDU wish to draw your attention to this and please contact us at event@mdu.se if you do not want to be included in the photos or on film.
Honorary guests will receive a minute-by-minute schedule for portrait photography, which makes it important that you keep to your allotted time.