About development of the campus

Over the next ten years, all NTNU’s academic communities in Trondheim will be gathered from dispersed locations to a single campus in the area around Gløshaugen. The Norwegian State will fund new buildings totalling 92 000 square metres and modernization of up to 45 000 square metres of existing areas at NTNU.

How many people are involved?

The relocation of the campus means that the daily activities of nearly 40 000 students and 7000 employees will take place in the centre of Trondheim. In addition to giving the university a stronger presence in the area, this will improve the basis for business establishment, innovation and collaboration with the university’s partners. It will also pave the way for more shopping and service in the area.

Why are we doing this?

The main aim of the project is to ensure that NTNU’s campus becomes a strategic tool for realizing NTNU’s academic ambitions. For example, strategic positioning of open and inviting buildings will lower the threshold for working across disciplines, so that different academic groups can work more closely together to solve the challenges that our society faces in the years ahead.

The physical setting should provide better conditions for internationally outstanding education, research, art, innovation and dissemination, by creating attractive meeting places as well as future-oriented spaces for work and learning. It should also realize the NTNU campus as a development arena and a laboratory.

Phases in the campus development

In January 2016, NTNU Campus Development started the first phase (2015-2016), where the strategic direction for the future campus was defined. In this phase, NTNU's vision, principles and success criteria for the campus were concretized.

In the second phase (2017-2019), the comprehensive plan for the design of the campus was established. We investigated where it was possible to build new university buildings, where the academic environment should be placed in relation to each other and what type of areas the buildings should contain.

We are now in the third phase (2020-2023), where planning and designing buildings in each individual project has started and where the background for this work is the needs and functions of the units that will use them.