Collaboration in Innovation at the Faculty of Natural Sciences
Collaboration Creates Innovation
Innovation at the Faculty of Natural Sciences
Interaction with the public sector
NTNU COVID-19 test
The success of the new covid-19 test is a good example of how new connections from different professional environments can help to solve social challenges in an effective way.
NTNU was commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Health to provide COVID-19 tests for Norway’s health care system. Collaboration across disciplinary and sectors involved St. Olavs hospital in Trondheim and Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine from NTNU.
Read more about the NTNU COVID-19 test
On the trail of a new medicine to treat multiple diseases
Researchers are creating molecules that can slow down the development of osteoporosis, cancer and inflammation. Foreign investors are interested. New research at NTNU is so promising that a European investor is funding researchers to the tune of EUR 1.8 million to further develop their findings. This is the first time a Norwegian development project has received support from this fund.
Read more about the collaboration in Norwegian Sci-Tech News:
On the trail of a new medicine to treat multiple diseases
Collaboration across academics and industries
New membranes for CO2 capture: Joined Development and Commercialization with Norwegian company
Department of Chemical Engineering
The patented membrane technology has application advantage for space-limited separation process and a relatively low CO2 concentration in gas effluent. The aim of the collaboration project is to pilot scale carbon capture facilities.
Read more about the research in Gemini (in Norwegian):
5 million NOK for research on carbon capture
Innovations for Sustainable sEabased Aquaculture (InnoSEA)
Department of Biological Sciences Ålesund
InnoSEA uses advanced research and production facilities, including updated biotechnological and biological laboratories, visualization laboratories and advanced simulators from the Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering and the Department of ICT and Natural Sciences, and commercial infrastructure for sea-based salmonid farming in collaboration with industry partners.
SisAl Pilot – Innovative pilot for Silicon production with low environmental impact using secondary Aluminium and silicon raw materials
Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering
The project aims to demonstrate a patented novel industrial process to produce silicon (Si, a critical raw material).
SisAl Pilot represents a path-breaking approach, and a strong contribution to “circularity” through industrial symbiosis where the Aluminium industry will act as bot.
The SisAl Pilot Consortium comprises 22 partners from 9 countries with strong multidisciplinary competences required for carrying out the work plan and match project objectives.
Read more about the research in Gemini (in Norwegian):
142 million NOK from EU for environmentally friendly metal production
Help to create a new business
Student start-up MMEDS SB
Department of Biological Sciences Ålesund and
Department of International Business
The product MMEDS SB offers is a pure marine collagen powder made from residual raw materials from whitefish.
Through Ungt Entreprenørskap's Student Company programme, the students in biological sciences and marketing at NTNU in Ålesund have worked with waste from the fishing industry and developed the commercial product MMEDS collagen.
Read more about MMEDS SB and the award (in Norwegian)
“Pamela” makes studying the ocean easy and affordable
Department of Biology and
Department of Engineering Cybernetics
“Pamela” is an uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) developed as an entrepreneurial idea and received NTNU Discovery grant for sampling a variety of surface water particles, from microplastic to plankton to salmon lice.
The USV is a joint effort by an interdisciplinary team – Andrea Faltynkova, a PhD candidate at the Department of Biology, and Artur Zolich, a postdoc at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics.
Read more about "Pamela" in Norwegian Sci-Tech News:
“Pamela” makes studying the ocean easy and affordable