https://timeassociation.org/t-i-m-e-double-degrees/
Students doing the SESAM program via the TIME framework are initially nominated and accepted at NTNU as double degree students.
In the TIME system, students are admitted with an exchange student status in their first year. As long as they follow the courses mandatory and eligible for the SESAM study track and have a good study progression in their first year, their status be changed to a full Master’s student in SESAM the second year.
One implication of this is that TIME students do have to contact Ruud and Lars to be able to register for some of their courses in the first year.