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Ocean Week is the annual conference hosted by NTNU Oceans, one of NTNU’s four strategic research areas. The conference is a vital part of NTNU’s effort to contribute to Norway’s role as an ocean nation.
As the signature event of NTNU Oceans, the purpose of Ocean Week is to lay foundations for groundbreaking interdisciplinary ocean research and for collaboration across sectors to solve the sustainability challenges of the Oceans.
The conference is always held in the first week of May.

A week full of highlights

Ocean Week 2022 - An Ocean of Knowledge - is now history, and has become An Ocean of Gratitude.

Join in for a recap in the video on some of the highlights during the week in May.

Previous Ocean Week Conferences

Since NTNU Ocean's establishment in 2014, Ocean Week has been held seven times.

Previous Ocean Weeks have received visits and contributions from leading scientists, artists, industry and business representatives, diplomats, politicians, activists, and even royals when His Majesty King Harald V of Norway visited the conference in 2019.
In 2022 Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy Bjørnar Selnes Skjæran (Ap) contributed at Ocean Week in Trondheim. In 2021 Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) attended the conference with a talk on The Ocean Panel and the Ocean Decade.

We are grateful for the opportunity through all these years to create an arena for the big blue talks.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed and who participated in the various events at the conference.

More photos from previous conferences here.

See some of what we have done at Ocean Week in previous years

Ocean Week 2022:
For the first time, we expanded our reach to all three campus cities of NTNU: Trondheim, Ålesund and Gjøvik. Read the story about this at NTNU Nyheter.
Program Ålesund, May 1st and 2nd.
Program Trondheim, May 3rd.
Program Gjøvik, May 4th.

Other Events at Ocean Week 2022:
Evening Workshop - Transitions - Engaging Knowledge, Interest, and Critique.
Vernissage - "SIGNALLING", by artist Amalia Raye Wiatr Lewis.
World premiere: SHARK DRUNK (English version of "Havboka".
Studentevent at TEKSET.
OPPDRAG MJØSA, at Mjøsmuseet.

Ocean Week 2021:
Ocean Week Program 2021 here.

Other events at Ocean Week 2021:
Blue Humanities workshop
AIDingArctic Workshop
Beach Clean Up Events - Trondheim and Ålesund

Ocean Week 2019:
Ocean Week Program 2019 here.

Ocean Week 2018:
Ocean Week Program 2018 here.

Ocean Week highlights bilder

King Harald V with former director of NTNU Oceans, Ingrid Schjølberg. Photo: Lars R. Bang
Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy Bjørnar Skjæran on demo tour in Brattøra, Trondheim, at Ocean Week 2022 with NTNU rector Anne Borg and NTNU Oceans director Siri Granum Carson. Photo: Ole Martin Wold/NTNU Oceans.
County mayor in Innlandet fylkeskommune Even Aleksander Hagen og rector at NTNU Anne Borg shakes hands after signing "Oppdrag Mjøsa" at Ocean Week at Gjøvik 2022. Vice-rector at NTNU Gjøvik, Gro Iren Kvanli Dæhlin, in the middle. Photo: Geir Olsen/NTNU Oceans.
Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza at Ocean Week 2019. Photo, Kristoffer Furberg, Universitetsavisa.
Technology demonstration at Ocean Week. Photo: Sigmund Grønlie Bolme
Panel talk at OW 2022 in Ålesund with Gjermund Kvernmo Langset (The NorthWest), Hans Petter Hildre (NTNU), Beate Kvamstad-Lervold (SINTEF Ocean) and Daniel Garden (GCE Blue Maritime Cluster). Photo: Børge Sandnes, NTNU.
Nina Jensen at Ocean Week 2019. Photo: Lars R. Bang
Panel discussion at Ocean Week 2018.
Mats Ingulstad (NTNU) in action at OW 2022. Photo: Ole Martin Wold, NTNU Oceans.
A cappella song by Trondhjems Kvinnelige Studentersangforening opened OW 2022 in Trondheim. Photo: Ole Martin Wold.