Trondheim

Norway

Mission city Pilot city
Norway National Platform
Trondheim Mission City Label
Population 215k
City Area 56.3 km²
City active since June 2022

The City of Trondheim is the third largest city in Norway and the regional centre of Mid-Norway. Its administrative territories cover 528 square kilometres. The population size in 2024 is 215,121. The city was founded in 997 and has over 1000 years of history. And at the same time, Trondheim has the reputation of being the technological capital of Norway as the city hosts the headquarters of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and SINTEF, one of Europe's largest research institutes.

 

Greater Trondheim is an incubator for good ideas. There are 37,000 students, 5,000 researchers/academics and a Nobel Prize for medicine. Nowhere else in Norway does society invest more per capita in research and new knowledge. Trondheimsløftet, the municipal master plan for 2020-2032 - the societal section, was adopted by the City Council in November 2022. It is difficult to translate “Trondheimsløftet” directly into English because "løftet" has two meanings in Norwegian, both equally important to the cause. Firstly, the word means "to lift" or "to elevate" the city to a higher level". Secondly it is also "a promise", “an agreement” that we and our inhabitants must work together to achieve the goals in the plan.

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