Fenna Verkerk, the winner of DION’s Summer Grant at Trondheim campus, organized a city tour at Kalvskinnet for temporary scientific employees at NTNU.

The evening began with a shared meal, before participants gathered at the NTNU University Museum to join a guided tour through Kalvskinnet’s “dark” history. Stories of slavery, the Second World War, mental hospitals, witch trials, and jails gave everyone new perspectives on the city, and all presented in both English and Norwegian.

Despite the rainy weather, the event was a success, combining history, social connection, and community building.

Thank you, Fenna, for arranging such a valuable activity, and thanks to everyone who joined!

Today, under the great late-summer sunshine, we wrapped up two wonderful mushroom hunting sessions in cooperation with NIRS (NTNU International Researcher Support)!

A heartfelt thank you to Kathrine Vangen and Juliana Mariana Hussein from NIRS for their great collaboration with DION this year. From last semester’s chocolate factory visit to this semester’s mushroom hunting adventures.

We’re grateful to everyone who joined us and hope you enjoyed a delicious dinner with the mushrooms you discovered in the forest.

Learn more about NIRS and follow their newsletter for upcoming events: https://www.ntnu.edu/nirs

On 21 August, DION hosted the seminar Thriving in Academia: Facing Impostor Syndrome & Navigating Academic Life in Norway.

A warm thank you to Marius Korsnes for sharing his perspective as a researcher in academia and for leading an open and engaging discussion. He focused on how to understand and deal with the impostor phenomenon, and on how to create a more inclusive and safe academic work environment.

DION wishes all temporary scientific employees at NTNU to thrive in academia and to carry out their research with motivation and enthusiasm, without being held back by self-doubt.