Creativity is a sought-after quality, both at the private level and in working life. What is it? Can it be taught? And why is it important?

Earlier this year, we in the Trondheim Slush’D team set out on the task of identifying the challenges Norwegian Entrepreneurs face, in hope of singling out a concrete problem, an area to target and address.

Maiken Nilsen Stensaker and Gry Alsos from Engage address an important theme, entrepreneurship and gender. Together with former entrepreneur Anita Skog from Innovation Norway and entrepreneur Lisbeth Bjerva, they discuss what it looks like today and whether we are on the right track.

In the summer of 2020, NTNU will offer an online course in entrepreneurship and business development for laid-off and partially laid-off workers. Read more about it and apply here.

In this Engage Talk we talked about the benefits and opportunities of realizing your business idea while still being a student. Read our recap here.

During the past two years Spark* has expanded with units at Nord University and Chalmers University of Technology. Now even more students have the opportunity to pursue their business ideas with help from other students with startup experience.

Mette Mari Wold Johnsen had a talk with Sigrid Westad Brandshaug, Maiken Spjelkevik and Stina Kånhoff about virtual teams and how they can succeed in our latest Engage Talk.

Every year the Norwegian Government, through the Norwegian Research Council (NRC), hand out grants of 1 million NOK each.

In the end of March 2020, the Norwegian health care system expressed that they lacked enormous amounts of protective equipment as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The current COVID-19 pandemic situation has turned life as we know it upside down. We asked the management of Engage how it affects their work and the future role of Engage Centre.