General information encompasses three sections:

1. Student

   • Fill out the required details about yourself and your field. 
   • Last name(s) goes before first name.
   • ESI: Your home institution may or may not have assigned you an ESI. Ask the administrative contact at your home institution.
   • Study cycle
     (Choose the one that applies to you): 
     • Bachelor's or equivalent: EQF 5/6
     • Master's or equivalent: EQF 7
     • Doctoral or equivalent: EQF 8
   • Field of education (ISCED):  
     Choose the one corresponding to your field of studies:
     00 – Generic programmes and qualifications
     01 – Education
     02 – Arts and humanities
     03 – Social sciences, journalism and information
     04 – Business, administration and law
     05 – Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
     06 – Information and Communication Technologies
     07 – Engineering, manufacturing and construction
     08 – Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
     09 – Health and welfare
     10 – Services
   • Field of education (clarification):
     Provide a very brief description of your field of studies, or the name of your study programme at your home institution.
      

2. Sending institution

   • Fill in:
     • The name of your home institution
     • The faculty you attend at your institution
     • Your institution's Erasmus code
     • Name & contact details for the administrative contact for your exchange at your home institution (e.g. the officer at the your university's international office in charge of your case) 
        

3. Receiving institution

   • Name: NTNU
   • Faculty/Department: The faculty at NTNU you will exchange to. See overview of NTNU's faculties here.
   • Erasmus code: NTRONDHE01
   • Country: Norway
   • Administrative contact person:
     • Unit for International Relations, Inbound Students Team
     • E-mail: 
       • Trondheim: exchange@aud.ntnu.no 
       • Gjøvik: international@gjovik.ntnu.no.
       • Ålesund: international@alesund.ntnu.no
     • No phone number

At the bottom of the General information section of your Learning Agreement, you are asked to note down the level of competence in English you possess.

Mobility type:

If you are coming to NTNU in person to take courses for one or two semesters, choose only Semester(s).

Estimated duration:

In this field, enter the planned period of your physical stay at NTNU. You can find these dates in your acceptance letter. If you prefer, you may enter only the month and year instead of the full dates (for example: 08/2026 – 01/2027). 

Do not enter the semester dates used by your home university or the dates covered by your Erasmus+ grant. Please note that NTNU has two semesters, with the Spring semester running from January to June and the Autumn semester running from August to December/early January.

If you are filling out a Learning Agreement, that means you should have already been accepted to NTNU and have chosen courses you wish to take.

You will be able to change your course selection after arrival at NTNU if you wish.

But when you first fill out the Learning Agreement, fill in only the courses to which you were accepted, as listed in the acceptance letter from NTNU. Do not include other courses in this first version of the agreement - doing so may invalidate it.

All courses at NTNU can be found in the online course catalog.

• Component code
  • This is the course code for the course you wish to take at NTNU. The code is found beside the name of the course on its webpage. 
• Component title
  • This is the title of the course you wish to take, as listed on the course webpage next to the course code.
• Semester
  • Note down whether you will be taking the course in the autumn or spring semester.
• Number of ECTS credits
  • Credits given at NTNU are equivalent to ECTS. On the course webpage, you can see how many credits the course will grant you. 30 ECTS equals a full workload for one semester, and all courses at NTNU give credits in multiples of 7,5.

Here, you must include the group of educational components that will be replaced in your degree by your home institution upon successful completion of the exchange mobility at NTNU.

Please consult with your home coordinator on how to complete this part. 

This section must first be signed by you, your home institution, and then the NTNU Unit for International Relations.

You can send us the OLA through the relevant online mobility portal, with the pre-approved courses listed in your acceptance letter from NTNU.

•  If one of your chosen courses has not been accepted by us due to restricted admission to the course, you will be instructed to contact the course coordinator. If so, you may leave the course in the OLA, but add a remark: "Not yet accepted" or "Pending approval" after the course title.
   
• If one of your chosen courses has been marked with "No" by us due to being taught in Norwegian, a PhD level course, or restricted to degree students, you may not sign up for this course and must choose another.
   
• For Norwegian language courses (courses to learn Norwegian), if you are still waiting for an answer, you can add a remark: "Not yet accepted" or "Pending approval" after the title.

See example below (course TPK4930).

You can submit/send us your learning agreement after you have signed up for your intended courses and after the NTNU course registration deadline has passed (1st of September in the autumn semester / 1st of February in the spring semester).