Accessing campscapes focused on the genealogies, representations and interpretations of campscapes, as topical for Europe’s political and cultural histories of the last century.

The final event in Vienna occasioned several European wide reflections on the importance, ethics and usage of the heritage of former concentration camps in the public space. 

Kontaktperson: Hans Otto Frøland

In this project, Czech-Norwegian Memorabilia developed bilateral cooperation between the Department of Germanic Studies, Charles University, and the Department of History, NTNU, in the field of Norwegian and Czech history in the first half of 20th century. The main topics of the project were the Czech forced workers in Norway during WWII, the Czechoslovak exiles in Norway in the years after 1948, and the endeavours of the Czech Lappologist and historian of Scandinavia Václav Marek (2019-2021).

Contact person: Hans Otto Frøland

Project: The economic history of the Nazi period and German war economies in World War I and World War II.

Contact person: Jonas Scherner

Contact person: Kristian Steinnes

2015-2021: The Hidden Companies of the Global Economy: The development of international commodity traders, 1945-2015 was an innovative research project breaking new ground in the research on global commodity trading. 

The handful of existing large independent commodity traders have been characterized as the “hidden companies” of the global economy. By controlling the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of the world’s commodities these companies play a pivotal role in the functioning of the global economy. Yet, despite their significance, very little is actually known about these companies, both how they operate today and in particular how they grew to become so important.

Contact person: Espen Storli

This was a strategic program which scrutinized aspects of Norwegian history during World War II. The project lasted from 2019 to 2022.  The researchers focused on various fields like:

• World War II in the northern region. German building of civilian and military infrastructure in North Norway and North Finland.
• The occupation regime: Ambition and response (2017-2020).

Contact person: Hans Otto Frøland

Contact person: Øyvind Thomassen

This was a cultural historical research project about one of the professional groups that have been romanticised, exoticised, caricatured, honoured and mythologised the most. The researcher primarily focused on the way they, their work, and their lives have been the subject of cultural ways of thinking.

Contact person: Ingar Kaldal

Project: Raw materials and conflicts; with a special focus on Germany in the period between 1914 and 1945.

Contact person: Jonas Scherner

2020- : School and Orphanage History

Contact person: Øyvind Thomassen

Statoil's history, 1972-2022: This project focused on Statoil's history, from the beginning, in 1972, and to the fifty years' jubilee in 2022.

Contact persons: Espen Storli and Mats Ingulstad

2016-2021: The high seas and the deep oceans: Representations, resources and regulatory governance (3ROceans) was a research project which focused on how we have made use of the ocean in a historical and cultural perspective, and what limitations we have experienced in this context. 
How have physical conditions, routines and technologies shaped previous maritime cultures and their relation to the sea? The researchers' goal was to increase our awareness of what the sea can be used for. 

Kontaktperson: Mats Ingulstad