Objective

NTNU is to develop networks and build up international relations that promote high academic quality and increased global insight and understanding.

Specific measures

NTNU will increase:

• the number of foreign students and researchers at NTNU
• the number of students and researchers from NTNU that participate in exchanges and periods of research abroad
• participation in international networks and professional activities within education and research
• the number of publications in international journals

Strategies

NTNU is to actively stimulate increased mobility among its students and researchers

• NTNU is to assist its students who want to study abroad by finding means of including such studies in their Norwegian degrees.
• In areas where NTNU has a strong international profile, it is to develop Masters degrees that are open to both Norwegian and foreign students. These courses are also to be designed so that they can be included in a Norwegian degree.
• NTNU is to offer more advanced-level courses taught in English for both Norwegian and foreign students.
• NTNU is to actively use the resources found among Norwegian students who return from abroad and foreign students studying in Norway in the development of courses as means of enhancing the quality of education. 
• NTNU's interdisciplinary profile is to be focused upon in its international work
• NTNU is to increase its participation in the European Commission's programmes for education and research.
• NTNU is to work actively to obtain the necessary resources to attract international students and researchers as well as promote the mobility of students and researchers.

The process of internationalization is to be based on institutional agreements

• The international mobility of students and researchers is to be based on tailored cooperation agreements with broad geographical scope. At the same time, strategic long-term efforts are to be continued to develop cooperation with a limited number of selected partner institutions.
• NTNU is to establish cooperation with selected partner countries in accordance with stipulated national priorities in Norway.
• NTNU is to develop international networks together with leading Norwegian industrial companies.
• The strategic priority areas at NTNU are to have specific responsibility to establish international networks directed towards the developing countries.
• NTNU is to be active in its work to establish contact with a twin university in a particular developing country.
• Departmental or faculty-based strategies at NTNU are to include plans for establishing and following-up international contacts and networks.

NTNU is to have an efficient  infrastructure and provide active support

• NTNU is to ensure that measures are implemented to assist the integration of foreign students and researchers into the various student and academic groups at the university to help them become part of the NTNU community.
• A range of Norwegian courses is to be provided for foreign students, researchers and staff.
• NTNU is to work towards providing accommodation for foreign students and researchers that is suitable for short-term and long-term periods of residence.
• International activities at NTNU are to be marketed and given high profile.