SamPraks (Together in Practice) is an interprofessional placement initiative designed to enable students to learn from, about, and with each other. As the network marked its 10-year anniversary through a celebratory seminar, it gathered participants from national and international professional and academic communities.
INTED – Centre for Interdisciplinary Education and the Honours Programme brought together staff, students, and collaborators for the official opening of their new premises. The event featured speeches, music, and a celebration of a shared environment dedicated to interdisciplinarity, educational development, and student engagement.
We had a talk with PhD candidate Eirik Tangeraas Lygre, about the interdisciplinary elements of her PhD project, and interdisciplinarity in general.
Nikolai, Victoria, and Martine participated in a week-long Autumn School in Copenhagen on the theme "Governance, Design and Delivery of Interdisciplinary Higher Education."
Cato Bjørkli is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology and a member of the INTED leadership team.
We spoke with Anja Røyne about INTED and interdisciplinary education. Anja Røyne is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and KURT (Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Science and Technology), and she is a member of the INTED leadership team.
We had a talk with PhD candidate Ane Kristine Espeseth, about the interdisciplinary elements of her PhD project, and interdisciplinarity in general.
Nicoline Berit Campbell Birkeland, PhD candidate at INTED is researching the Interdisciplinary Facilitator Program. We had a talk with her about the specifics or her project and interdisciplinarity in general.
As higher education institutions seek to prepare students for an increasingly complex and technology-driven world, interdisciplinarity and artificial intelligence have emerged as key priorities. In her master's thesis, Andrine Torgersen Wara examines how barriers to interdisciplinarity and artificial intelligence have been discussed across two periods separated by fifty years, and what these patterns reveal about creating more adaptive and future-oriented higher education systems.
Jan is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Health and Society, and teaches on the interdisciplinary certificate Education for Sustainable Health. We had a talk with Jan about interdisciplinary education and INTED.
Based on the work by Toolbox dialogue initative and Dialoguepilots, INTED has tested out "The four corners" exercise in various settings. Read more about it here!
Nikolai is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI), and a member of the INTED leadership team. We spoke with Nikolai about interdisciplinary education and INTED.
We have talked with Ella Maria Cosmovici Idsøe, Professor in Psychology, co-leader of INTED.
From 16 to 21 August, the University of Oslo's Energy and Environment PhD Summer School brought together doctoral candidates working within the energy field as part of the Norwegian Research School in Renewable Energy (NorRen). The summer school has been held annually since 2012 and provides an interdisciplinary learning arena for PhD candidates from across Norway and beyond.
Learn more about how staff and academics at UiO work with, experience, and develop interdisciplinary education in collaboration with INTED.
Learn more about how staff and academics at UiO work with, experience, and develop interdisciplinary education in collaboration with INTED.
Learn more about how staff and academics at UiO work with, experience, and develop interdisciplinary education in collaboration with INTED.
Learn more about how staff and academics at UiO work with, experience, and develop interdisciplinary education in collaboration with INTED.
On 4–5 May, the Learning Festival was held at NTNU in Trondheim. Victoria, Martine, and Anja attended the conference and contributed with several presentations throughout the two-day event.
The conference provided an opportunity to share experiences, discuss current developments in higher education, and engage with colleagues from across the sector. Through their presentations, the INTED team highlighted ongoing work and initiatives related to teaching, learning, and interdisciplinary education.
On 22 May, INTED hosted a workshop on the use of dialogue, led by Mina Haaheim.
Mina is one of INTED’s student leaders and is currently studying philosophy. Through her engagement with INTED, she has also completed training with Dialogpilotene, a program that equips participants with tools and techniques for facilitating constructive conversations in situations of disagreement. In this workshop, she introduced methods and practical exercises from this work, giving participants an opportunity to explore how dialogue can be used to foster understanding and productive discussion across differing perspectives.
What are the different definitions of interdisciplinarity? How do you develop an interdisciplinary course? Which interdisciplinary learning activities should students work with? How do you design a strong interdisciplinary case? From an administrative perspective, what should be included and taken into consideration?
If these are questions you are curious about, you should explore INTED’s resources!
On Thursday, 27 November, the annual Education Conference at the University of Oslo was held.
From 19–21 September, INTED hosted an interdisciplinary workshop on the encroachment on Norwegian nature.
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