UNIFYING

Campus fosters community

Success criteria:

• Campus brings academic communities together
• Campus is concentrated
• Campus has visible and easily accessible meeting places

The most important function of the campus is to enable people to meet—both academically and socially.

Campus should bring together students and staff within the same academic fields and help build strong academic communities. Geographic proximity lowers the threshold for daily collaboration and makes it easier to share infrastructure.

Campus should also support good collaboration across disciplines. By concentrating the campus and placing academic fields closer together, we strengthen its unifying function. Students should be able to take courses across disciplines with ease.

Campus should promote an inclusive community for everyone connected to the university. This includes students and staff, international visitors and guests, external partners, and the city’s residents. The campus must be universally designed. A variety of shared academic and social arenas should contribute to a common culture and identity across NTNU. These arenas should also help strengthen NTNU’s vibrant student life by supporting student organisations, culture, and sports.