Students
The primary objective for Engage Students is to “Enable students to increase their entrepreneurial skills and mindset through facilitating and/or offering activities for learning and knowledge sharing (outside the classroom), where students have ownership of the activity.”
Engage Students will support existing extra–and co-curricular initiatives, as well as support the establishment of new initiatives for students’ engagement in entrepreneurial activities.
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The Engage Ecosystem Ambassador Program
The Engage Ecosystem Ambassador program – a funding opportunity for NTNU and Nord University students.
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EiT Innovation Awards – A glimpse of NTNU students’ unique ability to innovate
The very first EiT Innovation Awards was a measure to pass on the value the students contribute to EiT.
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NTNU Student Investor Day: June 5th 2025
We are proud to invite the top 10 student-driven startups from NTNU to meet a selection of Norway’s foremost early phase investors, for the 5th annual NTNU Student Investor Day!
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A Portrait of Tendro: Startup Journey, Vision, and Life as Entrepreneurs
With key milestones like securing a pilot project with Oslo Kommune and winning awards, Tendro is making waves.
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Naya Development Represents NTNU at the Fourth Edition of STAGE TWO 2024
From the 30th to the 31st of October, the fourth edition of Stage Two took place in Berlin, bringing together Europe’s top university startups. Among this year’s competitors was Naya Development, representing NTNU with…
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Start Code 2024 – “We Aim to Become Norway’s Biggest Coding Competition”
From October 25th to 27th, Start NTNU hosted its three-day coding competition, aiming to connect students and businesses through innovation.
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Boost Henne: Breaking Stereotypes in Entrepreneurship- Empowering Women to Lead Startups
On October 12, around 40 participants gathered at NTNU for “Breaking the Myths,” an event by Boost henne. Female entrepreneurs shared insights to challenge misconceptions and inspire women to pursue entrepreneurship.
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AI, Start-ups and Snacks: an initiative for realizing innovative master projects
Thursday evening on October 3rd, Engage, NTNU’s School of Entrepreneurship, and NorwAI invited master’s students from various programs to explore the possibilities of AI and the commercialization of their master’s projects.
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Shark Tank: An evening as an investor
Last week, BRAIN arranged Startup.ai with the concept “Shark Tank” in the Mine, inspired by the TV-show from the US. Startup.ai is an annual event with the aim of connecting students and startups together.…
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Empowering Female Entrepreneurs- Boost Henne Kicks Off a New Semester at NTNU
Boost Henne, dedicated to fostering female entrepreneurship at NTNU, kicked off the semester with an event that brought together students from all campuses.
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The Innovation Days 2024 – a Celebration of Student Innovation
Banners, balloons, popcorn, slush, and competitions – a celebration awaited curious students as they entered the Mine during the Innovation Days.
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Inspiring Young Entrepreneurs: Team Trøndelag
Ungt entreprenørskap and Sparebank1 SMN are helping young people with great business ideas. This program is for youth businesses (Ungdomsbedrifter or UBs) and aims to support them in becoming better and pursuing their goals.…
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Student Investor Day 2024 – “An invitation to join the next big businesses on their journey”
For the fourth time, Student Investor Day was arranged in Gruva together with Sparebank 1 SMN, 6AM, and StartupTRD. For the first time, the event was included as a part of Trondheim Tech Week,…
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Stage Two 2024! Europe’s Largest University Venture Competition
Qualify for the biggest pan-European event for startups spinning out of the leading universities in Europe. We are now looking for the best startup to represent NTNU in this year’s Stage Two competition on…
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NTNU Student Investor Day: June 6th 2024
Engage and NTNU School of Entrepreneurship announces this year’s event the 29th of April. One lucky winner will also be invited to join Stage Two, the first pan-European competition for the best startups spinning…
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Energy Innovation Day – Building momentum for sustainable solutions
As part of NTNU’s Energy Transition Week, Energy Innovation Day took place amid conferences, workshops, and networking events, with the overall perspective focused on the future of energy and the transition into a net-zero…
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1-2-3(4) Pitch! The Business Simulator engages women in entrepreneurship
«Don’t dream about your dream job, create it!», the slogan for Boost Henne is an accurate description for their biggest annual event, the Business Simulator.
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Ally
Ally er et nasjonalt nettverk for ansatte i høyere utdanning som jobber med å fremme studentinnovasjon og entreprenørskap utenfor den tradisjonelle undervisningen. Nettverket retter seg særlig mot forelesere og fagpersoner ved universiteter og høyskoler…
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Circuses and innovation have more in common than you thought
The Innovation days have become an annual event at NTNU, and this year the rich innovation environment was reflected in a circus themed event.
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“Perhaps the best collection of pitches I have seen at NTNU!”
For the third consecutive year, we had the privilege of hosting the NTNU Student Investor Day. Thanks to our collaboration with Sparebank 1 SMN, StartupTRD, and 6AM Accelerator, we successfully organized an event where…
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The future innovators through student volunteering?
Innovative solutions and businesses are central to a welfare society, and to make it happen in the future today’s students have to work up own innovation competence. Unfortunately these are skills that are not…
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NTNU Student Investor Day: 12 May 2023
Engage and NTNU School of Entrepreneurship announces this year’s event the 29th of April. One lucky winner will also be invited to join Stage Two, the first pan-European competition for the best startups spinning…
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Together to: Innovate
On the 21st of September, the event “Together to: Innovate” was held for the very first time, as part of NTNU and The Mine’s partnership with Equinor. The first prize was 300,000 NOK, and…
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Inspired to improve healthcare
Entrepreneurship education engaging students to improve healthcare! By Gunn-Berit Neergård, researcher at SFU Engage In august, the graduate students of nursing education at NTNU were invited to participate in a three-day innovation camp. The…
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Building Spark* Split
In March 2022 we had the chance to attend Spark* Split’s very first kick-off event. This was Sparks first real chance to meet the rest of the University, and to introduce the Spark concept…
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Join Engage and Element Logic for a design sprint May 3 2022!
Are you passionate about disruptive innovation & business models? Are you interested in robotics, automation & cutting-edge tehcnologies? Join Engage and Element Logic for a design sprint next Tuesday. Register through the QR code,…
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NTNU Student Investor Day: 29. April 2022
Engage and NTNU School of Entrepreneurship announces this year’s event the 29th of April. One lucky winner will also be invited to join Stage Two, the first pan-European competition for the best startups spinning…
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Stage two: Succeeding in the entrepreneurial world
The biggest benefit of winning Stage two is not just the money and interests, although that is important for future growth, but it gives the project credibility and make us known in all of…
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How come the great performance at StageTwo for NTNU start-ups?
In the recent student start-up contest StageTwo in Berlin, start-ups from NTNU went all the way to the top in strong competition from other start-ups from all over Europe.
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CHIC: Spreading Spark* to Gdansk and Split
This autumn Engage has started the CHIC project which includes several work packages, including one that focuses on spreading Spark*.
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The need for innovation in the transportation sector
When talking to the people who build and facilitate transportation in Norway, an overwhelming majority say that they need innovative and entrepreneurial competence in the industry, leader of Konnekt Basit Mohammad says.
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SUPER-Linked; The future of education
– We believe that by incorporating real business problems in education it will better prepare the students for working life and give them a better understanding of how their field is used in business…
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The roadblocks towards entrepreneurship
On September 30th, Spark* hosted their annual Join a Startup Night (JASUN). This is an event for student startups to pitch their ideas to fellow peers, as well as being an event for students…
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Grønsj: A workshop in circular economy
To solve a problem, you must be able to really see the problems around you, that is the essence of design thinking.
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On a path to achieve gender equality in the entrepreneurial world
«Boost HENNE» formerly known as “Kvinneprosjektet” was founded as a result of the overwhelming gender difference in the entrepreneurial world both inside and outside of NTNU. This is the journey of «Kvinneprosjektet» becoming Boost…
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Student Investor Day 2021
The Mine has just opened, and we are here to find the gold.This is what Pro-Rector at NTNU, Toril Nagelhus Hernes said at this year’s Student Investor Day.
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The value of entrepreneurial nurses
It is important that nurses learn to be entrepreneurial, because they are the ones who discover important problem areas in their work and have the knowledge needed to solve them. But how do nurses…
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Cataly(c)st as a project example of how we work goal-oriented with the UN Sustainable Goals
Cataly(c)st aims to bring best practices from the research world, the maker communities, the youth movements and industry into one strong initiative.
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Sustainability in Engage
Sustainability – in the context of Engage – means ensuring that change agents have the right tools and competency in order to make conscious choices towards sustainable development.
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Student startup helping ALS patients
Imagine not being able to do everyday tasks due to a weakness or paralysis in your arms and hands. Vilje Bionics, a startup from NTNU school of Entrepreneurship, intends to develop an aid for…
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NTNU Student Investor Day
Engage and NTNU School of Entrepreneurship announces this year’s event the 3rd of June. One lucky winner will also be invited to join Stage Two, the first pan-European competition for the best startups spinning…
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Giving social entrepreneurs an toolbox for internationalisation
How can we equip social entrepreneurs with the tools needed to succeed internationally in a time where travel is restricted? At Engage, we’re exploring new ways to educate during the pandemic.
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SUPER: Student-active learning through “wicked problems”
To enable students to tackle the complex challenges of tomorrow, we will need to change the educational methods of how students learn. The project SUPER will look at how student-active learning can make students…
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Facilitating digital mobility in international exchange programs
How can educational institutions adapt to the increasing difficulty of international travel? We’ve taken a deep dive, and looked into how a group of institutions used innovation to combat the issue.
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Engage søker kommunikasjonsmedarbeidere
Interessert i entreprenørskap og ønsker en lærerik jobb mens du studerer? Engage søker 2-3 kommunikasjonsmedarbeidere for å styrke medieteamet.
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Spark* ignites the entrepreneurial spirit in students – and the curiosity of researchers
The impact of Spark* in new book about research on Business and Technology Incubation and Acceleration
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Students becoming change agents
In collaboration with NTNUs School of Entrepreneurship, we hosted an Experts in Teamwork village where the students got to develop real life solutions with real impact – becoming change agents.
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Engage Participating in New Sustainable Circular Economy Project
Youth Change Makers as Catalysts for a Transition to a Sustainable Circular Economy involves partners from five Nordic countries and it is co-funded by the Nordic Innovation.
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The importance of innovation in healthcare
How can we equip nursing students with the right tools to engage in innovation in healthcare? Engage recently hosted a seminar with this specific aim.
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Bli med på Babson Student Challenge 2021
Er du student ved NTNU eller Nord Universitet med en forretningsidé som bidrar til et av FNs bærekraftsmål? Send inn ideen din, og bli med på Babson Student Challenge!
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Sustainable industrial vegetable production in the north?
Over the course of three weeks, a group of students investigated the possibility of operating a sustainable industrial vegetable production in Mo Industrial Park.
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Empowering students to tackle complex problems
How can we empower students to tackle complex problems? At Engage we believe having a basic knowledge of Design Thinking is essential.
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The first year of Spark* Chalmers
About a year ago we could announce that the concept of Spark* went international to the Chalmers University of Technology. Here’s where they are one year later.
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Five more years for Engage
Engage has become a world-leading centre for entrepreneurship education and has recently been granted an extended period of 5 years. What have we done and what is the future plans of Engage?
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Educating Entrepreneurial Researchers
The course “Research-based Innovation” aims to develop the entrepreneurial mindset of PhD students to increase their engagement with practitioners.
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Creating new opportunities
For the second time, NTNU and Engage offers an online course in entrepreneurship and business development. The course was held for the first time this summer and the experiences have been great.
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Creativity – Can it be taught? And why is it important?
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?
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Trondheim Slush’D 2021: From Startup To Scaleup
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…
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Engage Talk Recap: Entrepreneurship and gender
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…
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Skapverdi.no – A digital course in Entrepreneurship and Business Development
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.
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Engage Talk Recap: Becoming a student entrepreneur
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.
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The expansion of Spark*
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…
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Virtual teams – A recap of last weeks Engage talk
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.
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How 3D-printers can help fight the pandemic
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.
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Engage about challenges and opportunities in an uncertain time
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.
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Entrepreneurship is the ability to turn ideas into action
Innovation and entrepreneurship can be explored and practiced in many different ways. Therefore, we asked three of the brilliant minds at Engage to tell us how they work with innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Students’ roles in entrepreneurial ecosystems at universities
Students are an important part of any university’s entrepreneurial output. How do students contribute to the ecosystem at the university and the university’s regional ecosystem?
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Hoping that today´s crises lead to new opportunities
Iselin Kristine Mauseth Steira thinks that innovation and entrepreneurship is extra important in times like these.
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How does Start NTNU adapt to the Corona crisis?
What the leader of Start NTNU, Eskil Schjølberg, has to say about the Corona crisis and how they are planning to continue their work.
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Spark* goes international
Spark* NTNU was established in 2014, but 2019 was the year the organization took its most significant steps so far. The organization provides mentoring and an entrepreneurial network within the ecosystem at the university…
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Engages Ph.D. candidate at the regional finals of the Researchers’ Grand Prix 2019
In September 2019 Gunn-Berit Sæter competed against nine researchers in the regional finals in Trondheim. Sæter says it was an incredible journey and a lot of work.
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Bedriftssimulator: Inspire female entrepreneurs
Bedriftssimulator is a free program for all female students in Trondheim where you get the opportunity to learn more about how to start your own business. The program is initiated by Kvinneprosjektet.
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The road to VCP Forum 2020
The VCP-forum is held to connect leading institutions teaching entrepreneurship through venture creation.
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Travelouge: Snowroller in Finland
Linnea and Eva, both students at NTNU School of Entrepreneurship, recently visited Turku in Finland because of their startup Snowroller.
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Entrepreneurship with AI
At NTNU School of Entrepreneurship (NSE) several start-ups using AI have been fostered and sent out in the big world. In 2019 another one joined the community.
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Experts in teamwork to India
25 students from NTNU went to India to work together with rural Indian innovators and entrepreneurs.
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A new hub for innovation
NTNU School of Entrepreneurship (NSE) has moved to a new location at Campus Gløshaugen.
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EiT Village “North by Northeast: A Free Passage From Norway to China”
Kunstakademiet i Trondheim hosted an intensive English-language Experts-in-Teamwork village, “North by Northeast: A Free Passage from Norway to China” with generous support from NTNU Engage.
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Entrepreneurship day at NSE
January 9th the School of Entrepreneurship invited former and current students to hold inspiring talks for their classmates in what we like to call “Entrepreneurship Day”.
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Looking for a part-time job?
Interested in entrepreneurship and want an exciting job while studying? Engage is currently searching for students to become a part of our media team.
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SLUSH’D 2020 – It´s time we step up our game
Slush is one of the world’s leading startup events, held annually in the Finnish capital Helsinki since 2008.
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Why is entrepreneurship so important?
We asked three of the great minds working at Engage to tell us why they are so passionate about entrepreneurship.
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Travelouge: Metaito at SLUSH
The startup Metaitor from NTNU recently attended SLUSH Helsinki, the leading startup event in the world. Here is their travelouge.
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Travelogue: WAID visit to Barcelona
A student from the NTNU School of Entrepreneurship, Jonas Aakenes, recently visited Barcelona to find international clients for his own startup WAID
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Kvinneprosjektet – Inspiring women
The 1st of November saw Kvinneprosjektets (The Women’s Project) kick-off at DNBs office in Trondheim.
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The inner changemaker – a personal story
Through her studies at NTNU School of Entrepreneurship, Elise Landsems inner changemaker got “smashed under a bulldozer” and then empowered into a core of who she is.
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The first year of Spark* Nord
Spark Nord started with inspiration from Spark NTNU, and has in less than a year grown to become a mentoring service with four mentors and 14 active start-ups
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5 good things to know when exploring entrepreneurship in Boston
The co-founder of the startup WAID went to Boston as part of Gründerskolen. Here is five essential tips for everyone that wishes to orient themselves in Boston.
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Spark* is expanding
In 2014 the mentoring organization for student start-ups, Spark*, was established in Trondheim Norway. This year the organization has taken major leaps into new areas.
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Ntention to the moon
Ntention, formerly known as Arveng Technologies after co-CEO and co-founder Magnus Arveng, have worked on their smart glove for three years. Now, they might be going to the moon in 2024.
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Travelouge: Visit to North Carolina State University
Erik Klevar And Stian Bongard, two students at the NTNU School of Entrepreneurship, participated at this year’s Venture Creation Program (VCP) Forum hosted by NCSU.
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Travelouge: Snowrollers trip to Sweden
Linnea and Eva, both students at NTNU School of Entrepreneurship, and recently visited Southern Sweden for their startup Snowroller.
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Gründerbrakka: A great initiative that facilitates the development of knowledge-based business ideas
Since the spring of 2018, Gründerbrakka have been taking in students who have innovating ideas and gives them offices to make their businesses.
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New fund for student ideas within energy – open for applications
Are you a student or PhD student with a business idea you want to take further? You can now apply for pre-seed funding from NTNU Energy Transition, Engage and Equinor to make the first…
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Travelouge – Boston and Babson College
Read more about when Lars Henrik got to present his business idea and learned a lot at Babson
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The most important initiative for the most ambitious startups
In the spring of 2018, Gründebrakka came as a new addition to the innovation environment at NTNU
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Travelogue – University of Genova and its “Start Up Innovative” program
One of the students from NTNU School of Entrepreneurship, Jonas Aakenes, recently visited the University of Genova to see how they managed the entrepreneurship education at the school.
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What are operation theatres going to look like in the future?
Last fall the newest addition to the NTNU innovation family was added. The innovation lab at Medisinteknisk forskningssenter at St. Olavs Hospital is run by DRIV NTNU and the faculty of medicine and health…
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The First Join A Startup Night of 2019
Spark’s 7th installment of the popular event took place last month at FRAM. It featured several startups from the Class of 2020 from the School of Entrepreneurship (NSE) and other startups from NTNU.
