Course calendar for Forskerforbundet NTNU

Our courses and events are available and free for our members employed at NTNU. We make sure to send out invitations by e-mail approximately three weeks before the course date, so you can easily plan your participation. We cover travel expenses for participants from Gjøvik and Ålesund.

Course Calendar 2026

 

 

January 15

Micro-training: That's how little it takes

2 hours, Trondheim

Ulrik Wisløff, professor Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging

Atefe A. Tari, researcher at the Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging (leave of absence)

January 29

Movie screening: A day without women (Gjøvik)
Movie screening: The day Iceland stood still (Gjøvik)

February 6

Gathering for PhD Candidates

Full-day course, Trondheim (English)

Silje Fekjær, Vice Rector for Education at OsloMet

February

Dragvoll after Dark

Walk at Dragvoll

Mattias Bäckström, professor (Department of Historical Studies)
Margrethe C. Stang, associate professor (Department of Art and Media Studies)

February 25

Leadership for non-leaders

Trondheim 

Anders Dysvik, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean for EMBA

March 6

Movie screening: A day without women (Ålesund)
Movie screening: The day Iceland stood still (Ålesund)

March 6

Movie screening: A day without women (Trondheim)
Movie screening: The day Iceland stood still (Trondheim)

March 11

Life phase economics and pension for members born in 1963 or later

Full-day course, Trondheim

Alexandra Plahte, lawyer and manager at Formue Pensjonsrådgivning.

March 12

Pension course for members born in 1962 or earlier

Full-day course, Trondheim

Alexandra Plahte, lawyer and manager at Formue Pensjonsrådgivning.

March 13 

Breakfast meeting: Free research and science communication
Breakfast meeting: Free research and science communication

Trondheim

March 20

Annual meeting in Forskerforbundet at NTNU

Trondheim, Ålesund and Gjøvik.

The annual meeting is the supreme body for Forskerforbundet at NTNU. At the annual meeting, the local branch board, chairman, chief shop steward, election committee and compensation committee are elected. Matters dealt with include accounts, budget, annual report and work programme. In addition to cases presented by the local branch board or individual members.

 

Pizza seminar for temporary scientific staff
Working in Norway: Why is unions so important?

Open for temporary scientific staff, both members and non-members.


Trondheim, English.

Marit Granhaug, unionrep Forskerforbundet

May 1

Joint May 1st celebration in Trondheim

We serve lunch before we march in the parade.

The parade starts at 13.00: Meeting at Kongsgårdsplassen Kongsgårdsgata – Bispegata –Kjøpmannsgata – Kongens gate – Søndre gate – Thomas Angells gate – Nordre gate – Kongens gate – Torget

May 13
(postponed due to strike)

Project management

Trondheim

Asbjørn Rolstadås, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and production at the Faculty of Engineering Science NTNU

Postponed due to NTNU party

TANTNU: Gathering for technical and administrative staff

Trondheim

June

Crash course: how to write a salary claim
Crash Course: How to write a salary claim

Digital

August

Crash course: how to write a salary claim
Crash Course: How to write a salary claim

Digital

August 14

Project management

Trondheim

Asbjørn Rolstadås, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and production at the Faculty of Engineering Science NTNU

September 8

Pensioncourse (English)

3 hours, Trondheim

Alexandra Plahte, jurist og leder i Formue Pensjonsrådgivning

September

Riding out the storm

Trondheim

October

Change and co-determination

Trondheim

Oscar Amundsen, Professor at the Department of Pedagogy and Lifelong Learning NTNU

 

Pizza seminar for temporary scientific staff
Working in Norway: Why is unions so important?

Open for temporary scientific staff, both members and non-members.


Ålesund

December

Member meeting: The 2026 work program

subject to change

We update the course calendar throughout the year. Please feel free to contact us if you have any requests for the course portfolio. In addition to the courses we arrange here at Forskerforbundet NTNU, you have access to courses arranged digitally.