The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is Norway’s main university for higher education in technology and the natural sciences. NTNU has 7 faculties and 52 departments and more than 100 laboratories, many of which are national resources used both in research and teaching. It supports 23 000 students, half of whom are studying technology-related subjects or the natural sciences. About 3500 bachelor and master degrees as well as 370 doctoral degrees (38% women) are awarded annually. With an annual turnover of approximately 700 million Euros, NTNU is recognized for broad cooperation with domestic and international trade and industry. Overall, it has research and education cooperation with more than 320 universities worldwide with prioritized geographical areas such as the EU, the USA, Japan, India and China. NTNU has proved to be an attractive partner, both on its own and together with its on-campus neighbour, SINTEF, which is Scandinavia’s largest independent research institute. NTNU is involved in over 129 projects funded by FP7, and so far 19 projects in Horizon 2020.
Faculty for Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering (IME) is responsible for the field of computing systems at NTNU. It has an annual turnover of 65 million Euros with about 20 % of its research being externally funded. IME has about 550 employees in total, of whom about 160 are professors/associate professors. Among its 430 registered PhD students some 60 % are of foreign nationalities. With 65% of the country’s ICT students enrolled, IME has great influence on and responsibility for new information-based industrial developments and development within other areas of society, which apply information and communication technology.