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Facilitating Interdisciplinary Learning: Introducing INTED¡¯s Interdisciplinary Facilitator Program 

The Interdisciplinary Facilitator Program (IFP)¡ªa pedagogical initiative designed to support interdisciplinary group work in higher education. As part of INTED¡¯s broader mission to strengthen interdisciplinary competence, the program equips learning assistants with the tools, knowledge, and mindset needed to guide students across disciplinary boundaries.

How should we design education with a focus on competence?
This was the central question at the MNT Conference held in Trondheim on May 5¨C6. The purpose of the MNT Conference is to promote the quality and relevance of STEM education by supporting a research-based and scholarly approach to teaching and learning ¨C known as SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning).

With the financial strength of the Oil Fund, how can Norway contribute to solving the climate crisis? This was the backdrop for the case competition held from January 29-31 at the bachelor's program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE).

INTED organized an interdisciplinary workshop on AI and climate from February 7th to 9th. Students practiced integrating their own expertise with other fields, transferring theory to practice, and gained insight into the current issue of how to balance AI and climate.

Higher education in the Netherlands has extensive experience with various Honours programs and offerings. A full 15 years of Honours was celebrated on June 6th and 7th at Hogeschool Saxion and the University of Twente during the conference titled 'Unleashing Potential'. Honours student Klara Vickhoff Lie and research assistant Sara H?ye Alfsen from INTED traveled down to participate.

What is interdisciplinarity and what do students know about it? We asked some students at Blindern campus to share their views and opinions.

How do you create a common scientific language between an anthropological storyteller and a systematic biologist? This was discussed by Knut G. Nustad in his lecture on interdisciplinary collaboration in the Global Trout project on May 23^rd. Interdisciplinarity is something that most people are interested in, but it is very challenging in practice. In his lecture, Nustad shared how they solved this in their project.

On March 15^th to 17^th, an Interdisciplinary Workshop was again arranged at INTED. This time, the topic was the Oslo Fjord.