Research “Mission Mjøsa” receives international attention In November, an old shipwreck was found at the bottom of Mjøsa, Norway’s largest lake, in a joint mission in cooperation with NTNU and the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment. A new type of sonar technology was used. Organization news New Centre of Excellence to the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience Congratulations to Professor May-Britt Moser and the research community at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, who were awarded a new Centre of Excellence (CoE) today! Research New Horizon Europe project funded, led by NTNU NTNU and 8 partners have been awarded the project “BIAS: Mitigating Diversity Biases in the Labor Market,” a large €4.7M, Horizon Europe grant coordinated by Dr. Roger A. Søraa at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at the Humanities Faculty. NTNU’s Departments of Computer Science and Social Anthropology are also part of the project. Campus development Norway freezes research and education cooperation with Russia Rector Anne Borg supports the restrictions that the government is now imposing on academic cooperation with Russia. Research Norway’s first university research satellite in orbit around the earth NTNU’s first research satellite was launched from Florida at 16:25 Norwegian time this afternoon. The small satellite «HYPSO-1»’s mission is to observe algal blooms in ocean and lakes. Research Historical launch of Norwegian small satellite This week NTNU will launch the first research satellite made by a Norwegian university. The small satellite «HYPSO-1» will take off with a Spacex Falcon-9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission: to scan ocean and lakes from 500 km above the earth. Campus development NTNU becomes partner to the New European Bauhaus initiative NTNU has been selected by the European Commission to become partner to the New European Bauhaus initiative. “This will be an important and exciting partnership for us”, says Tor Grande, Pro-Rector for Research. Research Will conduct radical research on clean fuel Ammonia as fuel represents a green transition for the marine industry, and NTNU and SINTEF have now received funding to research some well-known issues within the ignition and combustion process. Research Ocean-based negative emissions technology research receives prestigious funding From 1 July, scientists from 14 institutions in six countries will be examining the opportunities and risks of ocean-based technologies for negative emissions.
