Corona
NTNU's handling of the coronavirus pandemic
Latest news
- No supervised written exams on campus in the spring semester of 2021 19.11.2020
- Exams autumn 2020 – important information 16.11.2020
- Grading rules on home examinations 15.11.2020
- Working from home and digital meetings will be the main rule until the end of 2020 12.11.2020
- More online teaching and fewer physical meetings 06.11.2020
- No written exams on campus in autumn 03.11.2020
Guidelines
Mandatory course in infection prevention for students and employees at NTNU
Lectures
Parts of this autumn's teaching at NTNU will take place on campus. In order to get as much teaching on campus as possible, some lectures will last until 18.00.
The schedules are found at your course page or at min side in Innsida after you signed op for your courses.
Information about changes shall primarily be communicated in Blackboard or through other channels that are habitually used related to teaching.
Contact tracking
Now it is easy for you to register your participation in teaching at NTNU using a new check-in system with QR codes.
Practical training
If you are unable to attend practical training, or have to cancel due to coronavirus, you will be given the opportunity for new practical training. See guidelines for practical training.
How to book reading room if you're a bachelor student
All reading rooms will be available this autumn, but you must book in advance. Book your space via timeplansystemet (TP).
You may not book your study space via TP for the University library's study rooms. See this overview of rooms and equipment for more information, rules for use and how you book.
Exams
Information about any changes in assessment form will be published and all course descriptions are updated. See this topic page on exams.
Student exchange autumn 2020 and/or spring 2021
All relevant information regarding student exchange.
How students can be reimbursed for travel expenses after returning home from abroad
Students who in spring 2020 spent their own money in order to return home from abroad in connection with the coronavirus, may be eligible for a refund. Read about what you can be refunded for and how to apply.
Sabbaticals and research stays
Principles regarding changes for sabbaticals abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Fieldwork
Guidelines for fieldwork - updated 6 July 2020
If you develop respiratory tract symptoms, please leave campus areas immediately and go home.
Employees and students do not need to go home from campus if a colleague or fellow student develop acute respiratory tract symptoms.
Read more about respiratory tract symptoms and use of campus areas
Traffic in common areas
Traffic in common areas on campus must be limited to activities related to teaching. It will not be possible to use common areas for social events or gatherings in any form in August and September.
Go outside
There will be signs guiding traffic between classrooms and common areas. As far as possible, traffic between different teaching areas must take place outside, to avoid crowding in corridors and passages.
Common areas
At study start, campus will be characterized by:
- Barrier tape/signs, “one-way traffic” on Stripa
- Posters and signs in central locations and markings on the floor (for example, in places where queues form, at entrances, on staircases, near lifts, etc.)
- “Hand hygiene stations” with hand sanitizer
- Online solutions and outdoor pick-up points to prevent congestion and queues for collection of access cards
- Physically closed-off areas (certain social zones, for example, sitting areas/cubicles on Stripa)
- Security staff (August and September)
- Open and marked emergency exits as extra exits and entrances
Infection control and serving
Sit's restaurants opened on 10 August. The general rules regarding distance, number of people etc. has been reviewed for each restaurant.
Check out this video about how you can contribute to a safe study start.
Guidelines
- Use of campus areas - published 10 Aug 2020
- Infection control and steps to reduce transmission - updated 10 Aug 2020
- The lecturers' responsibilities regarding infection control - published 8 Aug 2020
- Infection control for students - published 3 Aug 2020
- Physical attendance on campus - updated 10 Aug 2020
- Work in laboratories and workshops - updated 7 July 2020
At the end of June, it was decided that the general rule was physical presence at the workplace on 10 August, and that working from home should be specifically agreed between the employee and their manager.
Working from home must still be arranged between employees and their manager, but to contribute to reducing infection the threshold for working from home will be lower than what was decided in June.
- Sabbaticals and research stays abroad - updated 28 May 2020
- Consequences for Horizon 2020
- Changes in the PhD Regulations due to the coronavirus - published 25 March 2020
- Apply for extension of employment period for PhD
- The Research Council postpones deadlines
Travel
NTNU advices against foreign travel that is not strictly neccessary.
NTNU follows the Goverments travel advice (in Norwegian) and does not set its own rules for employees.
You may travel between Trondheim, Gjøvik and Ålesund as long as you follow the guidelines for preventing infection.
All travel by public transport is discouraged, unless it is strictly necessary in order to get to work. Consider to bicycle, walk or use other ways to commute if possible.
See also
Reimbursements for corona-canceled travel and events
Guidelines for fieldwork - updated 6 July 2020
Qarantine
If you come to Norway from abroad, with the exceptance of some European areas with a low degree of corona virus, shall stay in home quarantine.
If you share a flat or live in a student accomodation with someone who is in quarantine, you don't need to stay in quarantine yourself, as long as the person does not develop symptoms.
Keep your distance and follow general infection prevention advice.
Events and gatherings considered necessary for NTNU's core business, or the administrative or technical support functions that are necessary to carry out our core business, can be carried out if infection control is safeguarded at all times.
NTNU infection prevention guidelines
- Use of campus areas - published 10 Aug 2020
- Physical attendance on campus - updated 10 Aug 2020
- Infection control and steps to reduce transmission - updated 10 Aug 2020
- The lecturers' responsibilities regarding infection control - published 7 Aug 2020
- Infection control for students - published 3 Aug 2020
- Work in laboratories and workshops - updated 7 July 2020
- Cleaning procedures after COVID-19 infection is confirmed in people who have visited NTNU’s premises - published 22 April 2020
Infection prevention advice for all
- To what extent should I keep a distance to other people?
- Practise hand hygiene – use hand sanitizers when hand washing is not possible. Hand washing is the more efficient of the two.
- Good habits for coughing and sneezing: Use a paper tissue in front of your mouth and nose, or cough/sneeze into the crook of your elbow.
- Avoid contact with people who are ill.
- Ensure proper food hygiene.
All employees and students are encouraged to follow advice from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
Are you infected or in quarantine?
If you get acute respiratory symptoms while you are on campus, or the municipality’s infection control office (smittevernkontor) defines you as a close contact of an infected person, you must leave the campus as soon as possible.
Covid-19 is strongly suspected | if Covid-19 is confirmed | Contact tracing
For questions about absence, contact your line manager or student adviser/lecturer.
Are you feeling worried, or just need someone to talk to?
• Students: Studentsamskipnaden (SiT) is available to listen and talk to you.
• Emplyess: NTNUs Bedriftshelsetjeneste