LIVING LABORATORY

Campus is a place for exploration.

Success criteria:

• Campus is an experimental arena
• Campus offers attractive spaces for innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity
• Campus has easily accessible experimental infrastructure

Campus fosters continuous learning loops through experimentation and innovation across all activities by offering a diversity of arenas and activities.

Campus must support NTNU’s core activities. This includes innovative learning methods, groundbreaking research and artistic work, inspiring outreach, and effective innovation and entrepreneurship. By enabling experimental activity throughout buildings, outdoor spaces, and surroundings, the campus and the city can function as a broad, inclusive living laboratory and learning environment in interaction with working life and society at large. Campus brings together a wide range of creative processes and methods for problem-solving and learning.

Campus should support an innovation ecosystem that encourages entrepreneurship and creativity—both in formal and informal settings. This includes incubators and startup spaces, co-location of innovation environments with external business actors, and available areas for larger-scale establishment of external partners.

The experimental infrastructure should be easily accessible for academic and interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly with SINTEF. The various arenas for experimental activity should help ensure that businesses, industry, cultural actors, the public sector, and the city’s population actively collaborate with NTNU.