Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU

NTNU has the main responsibility for higher education in technology in Norway, and it is the country’s premier institution for the education of engineers. The university offers several programmes of professional study and a broad academic curriculum in the natural sciences, social sciences, teacher education, humanities, medicine and health sciences, economics, finance and administration, as well as architecture and the arts. The Department of Psychology is part of the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences and is an international arena for research and education in Psychology covering a variety of disciplines such as Cognitive, Biological, Personality, Developmental and Social Psychology.

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) creates knowledge for a better world and solutions that can change everyday life.  NTNU is Norway’s largest university, with more than 40 000 students.

NTNU has strong research communities in its main profile in science and technology and in the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, teacher education, medicine, architecture and fine arts. The university has 3500 academic staff members. NTNU has a special experience in interdisciplinary research and works in close partnership with the business community, many research projects requiring advanced technical equipment, and NTNU has more than one hundred laboratories for research.

In 2014, NTNU professors May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries of cells that make up an ‘inner GPS’ in the brain.

NTNU participates actively in the EU framework programmes for research and Horizon 2020. NTNU works in partnership with world leading research communities throughout the world, including MIT, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, TU Delft, DTU, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Tokyo.

NTNU has taken responsibility for innovation for more than 100 years. Innovation includes entrepreneurship and commercialization. The innovation processes grow from education, research and artistic activities. Working together with other players, NTNU paves the way for more start-ups and development in existing firms.NTNU provides its researchers with the best conditions for their academic development and recognition of merit through targeted programmes and allocations; for example ‘Outstanding Academic Fellows Programme’, and collaboration with industry partners.

The Department of Psychology is part of the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences and is an international arena for research and education in Psychology covering a variety of disciplines such as Cognitive, Biological, Personality, Developmental and Social Psychology.

The Department of Psychology is engaged in research across a broad range of disciplines and provides a high quality research environment for staff and students. The Department has a strong tradition of interdisciplinary research and participates in both national and international collaborative projects.