The Ukrainian room within Tandem project

We are very pleased to announce that a Ukrainian room has been added to the Language Tandem platform. We would like to invite all Ukrainian academic staff, students and doctoral candidates at the ENHANCE universities (NTNU is one of the seven ENHANCE universities)  to join the project. We hope that this platform will enable our Ukrainian friends to contact each other and to establish new contacts within the ENHANCE community.

To join the platform please go to the following link :

How to join the project

How to join the project / Tandems / Strona g?ówna – ENHANCE – Tandems

Bowling event (Gjøvik)

Spring is coming and it is time for a fun family-friendly event. So, DION invites all Gjøvik-based PhDs, Postdocs, temporary scientific employees at NTNU for a Bowling night at Bowling 1 Gjøvik. The Bowling will be followed by yummy pizza to compensate burnt calories.
It will be the last event organized by DION before the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and DION board election! Gjøvik needs new candidates and if you have any questions regarding that, don’t miss this opportunity! Join us and we’ll be there to answer your questions.

Please forward this invitation to your colleagues, in particular, those have been recently joined NTNU-Gjøvik family.

Please note that the event is free for the FIRST 30 REGISTREES ONLY and family members are welcome to join as well. But, latecomers and unregistered participants are welcome to join at their own expense.
Hurry up and register for the event!

To join please register here.

Follow our event on Facebook for further updates.

The lanes are booked from 16:00 sharp.
When: Saturday, 26th March at 4pm
Where: Bowling 1 Gjøvik, Trondhjemsvegen

Annual general meeting and board election of DION

Dear colleagues, 

DION is happy to invite you to our Annual General Meeting on April 7, 2022. This year the event will be hybrid with pizza for physical attendees at Trondheim & Gjøvik. 

If you would like to participate physically and have pizza, please fill in one of this forms until 28th March 10am:

Trondheim: https://forms.gle/22fouHvuSUUnoJXZ7

Gjøvikhttps://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=cgahCS-CZ0SluluzdZZ8BcDbgd3y9WlOmOQEudLCeu1URFpYUDI5QjRJV0VUQ1FUOVhFUkhIU1o4NC4u

The election of the new board will be opened at the end of the meeting. We encourage all PhD candidates, post-docs and temporary scientific employees from NTNU to consider joining the board. The DION Board consists of 5 to 8 members, including the DION president, who serve for 12 months (until spring 2022). This is a great opportunity to get organizational experience from inside the university and work towards a better PhD and post-doc experience at NTNU. A board position on DION can be credited as up to one month of duty work, or one month extension of the PhD project period; whilst the president receives two months (Forskrift om stipendiater ved NTNU, §2)

Who can apply? 

·        All PhD candidates, post-docs and temporary scientific employees at NTNU (Trondheim, Ålesund and Gjøvik)

·        Candidates must have a contract until spring 2023.

·        Norwegian proficiency is required for the president position

How to apply? 

Send your short application including picture, name, affiliation, short bio and motivation (1 page max) to post@dion.ntnu.no. Please send your application before the 4th of April, so that we can share your application on our website before the AGM. It is also possible to step forward as a candidate during AGM.

Who can vote? 

All PhD candidates, post-docs and temporary scientific employees at NTNU. 

AGM date & time: April 7, 2022; 16:30 – 18:30

AGM venue: 

Trondheim: S2, Sentralbygg, Gløshaugen; Teams (Link will be shared before the meeting)

Gjøvik: K, K102; Teams

Ålesund: Teams

The election will open at the end of the meeting on Valgweb and it will be open for 72 hours. The newly elected board will be informed directly after the election and we will also announce it through our digital channels. The online transition meeting for the new board will be held on 12th April 2022 at 15.00.

If you have any question about the president position, you can contact Martin Brattmyr ( martin.brattmyr@ntnu.no ) and for other queries you can contact post@dion.ntnu.no.

Invitation to visit the Winter Trollnight at Hunderfossen (Gjøvik event)

NTNU Gjøvik and DION invite all temporary scientific staff and family to a visit to the Hunderfossen Winter Trollnight on Friday 4th of March 2022.

“Due to covid restrictions the planned Winterpark for 2022 will be replaced by a musical theatre event: Winter Trollnight. Bring the whole family along for an evening of song, theatre and beautiful ice sculptures. See 3 shows at 3 different venues in the park, and experience the stunning snow and ice buildings.”

You can read more about the Hunderfossen Winter Trollnight here: https://hunderfossen.no/en/vinter-trollnatt/

A bus will take us from campus at 16:45, and return from Hunderfossen at 20:45. Please give feedback in the registration form if you want to take the bus or arrange your own transport.

As there is a limited number of tickets, register as soon as possible and within the 26th of February.

Register here.

See you at the Hunderfossen!

Ski Course with DION (Trondheim)

Dear all,

We would love to go skiing with you, so we would like to organize a course with Trondheims Skiklub! If you are interested, you can find some details here:


1. The weather at the moment makes it difficult to predict when we could do the course. Therefore we ask you to choose one of the indicated dates in the form which you can find at the end of this announcement.
2. The course costs 650 NOK. When we reach 30 people, the price will go down to 600 NOK. The course is unfortunately very expensive for us to take over completely. We would take over 150 NOK per person.
3. One instructor is provided per 6 people and the course lasts 1.5 hours, the equipment is included in the price.


If you have any questions, please contact me. And please share this info with friends and colleagues! 


Registration is open until Friday, 14.01,10 am. 

Registration form: https://forms.gle/tJmw7SNdXa9cq6Uz9

You will be contacted shortly after with more information.