SITRAP Centre of Excellence in Education

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SITRAP has funding over 5 years (2023-2027) with a total framework of NOK 35 million. The funds are used on various sub-projects within three strategic areas: student active learning, integration with practice, and didactic development. SITRAP arranges a range of activities throughout the year.

Our strategic areas:

Hakket Bedre: Et arrangement av Urban Lab i samarbeid med SITRAPs Hjelpdesk om hvordan teknologiske fremskritt påvirker planlegging og vår fremtige arbeidshverdag.

Student active learning

Studiet gir tverrfaglig kompetanse på en rekke områder: arkitektur, byplanlegging, regionplanlegging, urbanisme, landskap, eiendom, utvikling og samfunnsvitenskap. Prosjektarbeid og samarbeid er en viktig del av studiet.

Integration with practice

Didactic development

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Mandate
SITRAP develops methods for better teaching and learning, based on teaching, research and practice. The centre's main tasks are to document and further develop good experiences in teaching, and to contribute to innovation by integrating creative inputs into pilots and development projects.
SITRAP contributes to professional interaction and cooperation with other national and international players. The centre's activities, experiences and results are disseminated to various teaching environments within NMBU's Faculty of Landscape and Society, across the other faculties at NMBU, and to other national degree programmes in planning.
SITRAP must have ambitions that qualify it to submit an application for outstanding teaching in the field of spatial planning.
(Dean, Faculty of Landscape and Society NMBU, December 2018)
Centre of Excellence status
In 2022, the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Competance assessed 28 applications for the status of Center for Excellence in Education. SITRAP was selected together with three others. The Centre of Excellence status brings funding. Half of these funds are provided by NMBU and the rest comes from the Centre of Excellence scheme. The centre has an annual budget of NOK 6.5 million.
The Centre for Excellence in Education is a prestigious national scheme that aims to stimulate the academic community to further develop higher education. The status is awarded for five years, and can be extended for another five years after a mid-term evaluation.
A national resource centre
Spatial planning is those professions that work to find future solutions for issues related to defined areas.
The target groups of the SITRAP are students and teachers at Norwegian educational institutions, international partners, and the range of professionals who practice within the field of spatial planning.
SITRAP is concerned with what the various professions have in common - and not what separates them or what creates conflict in planning processes. The intention is to understand how practitioners in the various professions apply their knowledge, how they learn - both individually and in collaboration with others - as well as how they develop professional security. SITRAP will use these insights to develop a better transdisciplinary practice in teaching within spatial planning. By transdisciplinary practice, we mean the use of methods, techniques and thinking that manage to synthesize across different academic fields, experiences, political opinions and frameworks.
Management goals towards 2028
By 2028, SITRAP will have achieved the following:
- Comprehensive didactic knowledge of how complex situations from real life can affect teaching and learning.
- Degree programmes that offer a breadth of teaching and learning methods, focusing on planning tools and techniques, transdisciplinary co-creation and integrated problem solving.
- Educators who inspire students to learn how to learn as a fundamental skill in facing complex problems, preparing them to take a leading role in the green shift.
- Students with confidence in handling unclear and/or rapidly changing situations.
- Institutional recognition of how didactics in spatial planning plays a key role for strategic priorities (at the level of department, faculty and ministry).
Annual reports
SITRAP Annual Reports are in Norwegian.
SITRAP Annual Report 2023: On target
SITRAP Annual Report 2022: Recognized
SITRAP Annual Report 2021: Take-off
SITRAP Annual Report 2020: The transit year
SITRAP Annual Report 2019: The first year
Organisation and staff
SITRAP is a center at the Faculty of Landscape and Society and has its organizational roots across three departments at the faculty:
Landscape Architecture (ILA)
Urban and Regional Planning (BYREG)
Property and Law (EIEJUSS)
SITRAP consists of the following:
- A working group that has the academic responsibility for developing and carrying out the centre's sub-projects
- A steering group (Board of the Centre of Excellence in Education)
- A reference group consisting of central actors who will provide dissemination nodes to various target groups.
NMBU staff who participate in the SITRAP's sub-projects.
Management
External partners
Nord University:
Kåre Sigvald Fuglseth
Professor, Faculty of Teacher Education, Arts and Culture
Tel. +47 75517713
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Jon Anders Lindstrøm
Associate Professor, Faculty of Teacher Education, Arts and Culture
Tel. +47 75057862
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Working group
Sverre Nagel Bjordal
Pavel Grabalov
Researcher
Steering group
Reference group
- FUS Forum for Education in Community Planning (leader)
- DOGA (Tor Inge Hjemdal)
- KS (Henning Berby)
- Viken FK (Per Albert Kierulf)
- Nordland FK (Heidi Ramsvik)
- Kristiansand municipality (Knut Felberg)
- Centre for Real Estate Studies (Even Stenvåg Leira)
- Asplan Viak AS (Per Einar Saxegaard)
- Drammen municipality (Lene Basma)
- SEVU NMBU (Vigdis Johansen)
- NMBU Learning Centre (Mike Moulton)
- Urban Lab (Viktor Talgø Sivertsen)
- Statsbygg (Barbro Grude Eikseth)
- LANDSAM (Head of the Education Committee)