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Digital
The ICT revolution has lead to new learning and re-
search methods. Teaching and supervision takes place
online, for a global group of students who only partially
or periodically stay in Trondheim, and who study full
or part time. Several laboratories are substituted with
facilities for simulation and virtual experiments. NTNU’s
areas are adapted to mobile students and employees,
with flexible rooms and an advanced e-infrastructure.
Arrangements have been made to facilitate interdisci-
plinary cooperation and social meetings. The campus
is concentrated on the Gløshaugen-Øya axis, but also
includes several satellite locations in and outside Trond-
heim.
Urban
Urbanisation as a mega-trend has left its mark on de-
velopment of the campus, which is now fully integrated
in the city of Trondheim and its social and professional
life. There are few physical barriers between the city
and the university, which means that they can utilise
each other’s areas, arenas and provisions in a flexible
way. This contributes to more closely connecting the en-
tire university’s activities to the surrounding society, to
their mutual benefit. Campus Dragvoll is either closed
down or a part of the urban Trondheim East.
These four development perspectives emphasise trends
and catalysts differently, consequently producing dif-
ferent images of the future. However, they have some
characteristics in common with regard to the demands
the campus must satisfy:
• The future NTNU should be internationally
competitive and attractive to competent
students and employees. This entails that both
Trondheim as a host city, and the campus as a place of
study and work, should possess qualities far beyond
the average. City and campus development are two
sides of the same issue.
• The pace of change is increasing – socially and
culturally, economically and technologically.
To accommodate changing needs, the campus should
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