The award for equality and diversity belongs to the focus area of work environment and student welfare in the NTNU strategy.

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Overview: Internal awards for employees

Thomas Richard Hilder receives the award for Equality and diversity from pro-Rector for Innovation Toril A. Nagelhus Hernes. Photo: NTNU

Purpose and criteria

Knowledge for a better world, is best created in an organization that is equal, diverse and gender balanced. Consideration and respect should characterize the interaction of staff and students.

NTNU's award for equality and diversity is given to those who have managed to promote equality and tolerance regardless of gender, religious or cultural background.

Internal awards for employees 2024

Propose candidates for the award for equality and diversity by TBA

Proposals for award recipients are submitted by at least three employees / students. Check the description of each award for justification of proposals. Some awards have specific requirements as to documentation of results. No signatures are requires, but when you send in the proposal by email to the contact person for the award, we ask that you copy the proposers.

See also the page NTNU Employee Awards.

The awards ceremony takes place in - TBA

How award recipients are chosen

The Committee for Gender Equality and Diversity's leader appoints a committee consisting of three members.

Secretariat: HR and HSE Division.

Previous recipients

• 2022: Thomas Richard Hilder
• 2021: Professor Letizia Jaccheri, Department of Computer Science
• 2018: A group of staff from the Department of Biology: Gunilla Rosenqvist, Thorsten Hamann, Veerle Jaspers, Louis Hunninck, Aline Magdalena Lee
• 2015: Ulrik Wisløff, Cardiac Exercise Research Group (CERG)
• 2013: Technology camp at IME Faculty: Nina Kotte, Chris Helen Solvoll and Line Berg.
• 2012: Prof. Sissel Lie and prof. Torlaug Løkensgard Hoel
• 2011: Ingvald Strømmen, Dean Faculty of Engineering
• 2010: Associate professor Berit Rostad, Department of Public Health
• 2009: Professor Tor Grande, Department of Materials Science
• 2008: Female network at Department of Manufacturing and Civil Engineering
• 2007: Trondheim Academy of Fine Art
• 2006: Professor Kari Melby, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture
• 2005: Department Head Terje Malvik and his deputy Bjørn Nilsen, Department of Geoscience and Petroleum
• 2004: Dean David Nicolson, Faculty of Natural Science and Technology
• 2003: Literature, gender and identity, Faculty of Humanities
• 2002: Professor Rigmor Austgulen, Dept. of Clinical and Molecular Medicine
• 2001: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• 2000: Kari Hag, Department of Mathematical Sciences
• 1999: Department of ICT. Project «Females and data»
• 1998: Idepartment of Public Health «Focus on female health»

Contact

Janet Rautio Øverland, Senior Adviser, HR and HSE Division