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INTRODUCTION
The report «NTNU Vision 2060 – Campus Development»
is the result of a development project at NTNU during
the autumn of 2013. Former Rector Torbjørn Digernes
made the initiative in May 2013. Together with the new
Rector, Gunnar Bovim, they initiated the NTNU Vision
Project. The task for the Vision group with 15 members
from NTNU, has been to compile visions for campus
development for NTNU in a 50-year perspective. The
report details how campus development can contribute
to sustaining and developing NTNU as an attractive
university, based on its distinctive character.
The report investigates important perspectives and
relations for a better understanding of the opportuni-
ties and challenges related to campus development.
The university in general, and NTNU specifically, faces
changing demands and challenges. How to meet these
challenges depends on a clear understanding of the
university’s distinctive character, and how this character
establishes important premises for campus develop-
ment.
Important conditions for the analysis were challenges
created by new circumstances – like the need for
more flexibility, a new digital reality for education and
increased internationalisation of higher education – and
how a strategic approach to campus development can
support further development of the institution. The work
is founded in NTNU’s strategy for 2011–2020, ”Knowl-
edge for a better world”.
NTNU’S DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER AS A UNIVERSITY
The Norwegian Parliament established clear provisions
for the new institution when NTNU was established on
1 January 1996. As the name suggests, the university
should assume a national responsibility for research
and education in technology and natural science – this
is NTNU’s main profile. At the same time, NTNU should
be a diverse university including humanities, social
sciences, medicine, and architecture and arts, where
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