Research

– a web portal to NTNU's research

Research news: Helping today’s power companies anticipate tomorrow. Norway’s 100-year-old electric power industry faces the same kind of transformational changes that Nokia and Kodak both faced.

Strategic Research Areas

Through interdisciplinary cooperation, NTNU's strategic research areas Energy, Health, Oceans and Sustainability address complex challenges of great importance for society.

The aim of NTNU's Research Excellence is to help realize NTNU's goals for research in the top international league, and includes EU funded projects, national initiatives and NTNU's own initiatives.

Enabling Technologies

NTNU will strengthen the fundamental, long-term research and the enabling technologies biotechnology, ICT and nanotechnology.

Research Areas

NTNU's research areas with research centres, laboratories, research groups, networks, research programmes and faculties/departments.

Need an expert?

Find 600 of NTNU's experts, available to comment on a range of topics. Use the alphabetical guide or search by name or theme.

Research news

Research news from NTNU and SINTEF with articles, short news, photos, videos, opinions, blogs and archive. The latest news:

Find research and publications

Blogs by scientific staff and students

Cristin, simple search

Cristin, find projects

Disputations/dissertations (refresh the page)

Gemini, research news from NTNU og SINTEF

NTNU Open, archives and publications

Laboratories

Many NTNU laboratories are national resources, and most are used in teaching as well as research. NTNU and SINTEF operate several laboratories together.

PhD opportunities

NTNU offers a wide range of doctoral programmes. Candidates must be admitted to a specific PhD programme in order to earn a degree from NTNU, and must undertake both research and coursework.

PhD positions are announced in NTNU's job listing: Vacancies and Job Openings

International Researcher Support

NIRS offers counselling services for international researchers at NTNU.

Research A-Z

Research A-Z at NTNU.

A climate dictionary

A glossary that explains commonly used technical terms.

NTNU in Brussels

NTNU has high ambitions for its participation in Horizon 2020. Establishing an office in Brussels and a Head of Office is part of NTNU's focus on increased participation in the programme.

NTNU in Japan

NTNU and the University of Bergen (UiB) have a common adviser at Innovation Norway's Tokyo office in an effort to increase research and education partnerships with Japanese universities, research institutions and industries.

Business and innovation

NTNU provides its scientific community with the expertise within the commercial possibilities of an idea, starting a company and intellectual property rights.

Partners and collaborators

NTNU's main partners and collaborators in research and innovation:

SINTEF (Gemini Centres | The «Better together» Project)

NTNU Social Research

St. Olavs Hospital – Trondheim University Hospital

The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study – The HUNT study

Centre for Care Research

Møreforsking

The Norwegian Smartgrid Centre – Smartgrid

Business

Facts and figures

4 Nobel laureates in Chemistry, Physics and Medicine

At lest 91 spin-offs in the last five years

120 laboratories from Nano Lab to Language Lab

342 doctoral dissertations in 2015

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Contacts for the media

Architecture and Fine Art

Piren/the Pier: NTNU’s Live Studio project at the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art received an award presented by the Ministry of Education and Research for quality of education in 2015. Together with SINTEF, NTNU students designed and built a bold structure in timber; a cantilevered pier projecting 12 metres out over the Nidelva river in Trondheim.