Community - Strategic research area
NTNU Community
Knowledge for stronger communities
Strategic research area 2024–2031
Through interdisciplinary research, NTNU 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.
The societal challenges that NTNU Community addresses include:
Social challenges
Social challenges are complex and require an interdisciplinary perspective both to understand the mechanisms and processes at work and to contribute to solutions.
What types of communities exist?
- Institutional communities are, for example, political and legal systems.
- Place-based communities can be city districts or local communities.
- Cultural communities can be communities around certain art and cultural expressions, or linguistic communities.
- Technologically mediated communities are, for example, digital networks, or algorithms and artificial intelligence.