Events

Events

14.th January : NTNU Community: Invitation to a ‘matchmaking event’ 

NTNU Community announced 2. December a call for establishing interdisiplinary teams
Deadline for applying is 10.02.2025 

We have got several questions from researchers who are considering to be part of a coordinating group for a proposed Team and who would like to meet colleagues from other disciplines and faculties and discuss possibilities for establish such groups. As explained in the call, a requirement for applying as a coordinating group for a Team under NTNU Community is that the group consists of three people from three disciplines representing (at least) two faculties. To facilitate a meeting place for those interested in being part of a coordinating group NTNU Community will arrange a digital ‘matchmaking event’ January 14th 2025. The goal of this event is simply to provide an opportunity for people to get in touch with each other and establish an interdisciplinary group. It is up to the participants to plan further contact after the matchmaking event if there is mutual interest in developing an application for coordinating a Team. 

The matchmaking event will be arranged Tuesday January 14th according to the following schedule: 

08.30-09.00: Team Democratic Resilience  

09.05-09.35: Team Housing and Community Development  

09.40-10.10: Team Just Transition  

10.15-10.45: Team Childhood and Youth  

10.50-11.20: Team A Sustainable Welfare Society  

11.25-11.55: Team Art  

12.30-13.00: Team Identity, Cultural Heritage and a Multicultural Society 

13.05-13.35: Team Aging  

It is of course possible to join several of the Team slots if you are interested in more than one Team. 

Sign up to your preferred digital meeting here 


Earlier Events:
Join us in shaping NTNU´s strategic research area Community

Through interdisciplinary research, NTNU's strategic area Community aims to contribute to a viable democracy that safeguards the common good, strengthens trust and cohesion across different groups, and reduces exclusion and polarization. Would you like to help shape this work? Then you have the opportunity by signing up for one or more workshops in the autumn. At the workshops, we will discuss current research topics related to diminishing trust in society and democratic challenges, social inequality and exclusion, restructuring of the welfare state, climate change and the environment. Read more about NTNU Community.

Dates

The workshops will be held at four Friday mornings in September and October. Sign up for the workshops by filling out the following forms:

If you are not employed at NTNU, but have questions about the workshops please contact frode.nystuen@ntnu.no.

The workshops will be held at the premises Work-Work in Munkegata 58 in Trondheim. We serve breakfast from 08.30. It will only be possible with physical attendance. Please contact us if you are employed in Ålesund or Gjøvik and need travel support.

The aim of the workshops is to gather scientific employees at NTNU who are curious about NTNU Community and who are interested in interdisciplinarity within the societal challenges that NTNU Community aims to address. Each workshop will start with a few short presentations from employees at NTNU who will give a taste of ongoing research within NTNU Community's field of interest. After the introductions, there will be plenty of time for exchange and discussion at the tables.

If you have any questions related to the workshops please contact Frode Nystuen, coordinator for NTNU Community.
 

13.09: Democracy and trust 

Oddveig Storstad, Professor at the Department of Teacher Education 

Presentation: Democracy and citizenship education in the age of individualisation. 

Ståle Angen Rye, Professor at the Department of Geography 

Presentation: Mineral extraction for the green shift? Challenges for local participation, democracy and community planning. 

Kristine Ask, Associate Professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture 

Presentation: Held together by algorithms: Community and creativity on TikTok 

 

20.09: Social inequality and exclusion 

Ottar Ness, Professor at the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning 

Dina von Heimburg, Associate Professor at the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning.
Presentation: Community, social inequality and outsiders 

Eli Støa, Professor at the Department of Architecture and Planning. 

Presentation: Housing as a tool 

Geir Arild Espnes, Professor at the Department of Public Health and Nursing 

Presentation: Everyone has the same right to healthcare services. The municipalities and the health challenges. 

  

27.09: Restructuring of the welfare state 

Letizia Jaccheri, Professor at the Department of Computer Science 

Presentation: AI for All 

Robert Næss, Professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture 

Presentation: The green shift and inequality: a challenge for the welfare society  

Kari Nyland, Professor at NTNU Handelshøyskolen

Presentation: Management, innovation and restructuring in public service

 

  

04.10: Climate change and the environment 

  

Steffen Wellinger, Professor at the Department of Architecture and Planning 

Presentation: Spaces for community

Nabil Ahmed, Professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art 

Presentation: Artistic research for climate justice

Anders Finstad, Professor at the NTNU University Museum 

Presentation: Valuing nature