INTED - Center for Interdisciplinary Education
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The Center for Interdisciplinary Education (INTED) at UiO works to strengthen interdisciplinary competence among students and staff. Interdisciplinary competence is the ability to integrate knowledge and ways of thinking from multiple disciplines to achieve new insights. INTED enhances the capacity of students and staff to participate in, facilitate, and lead interdisciplinary processes.
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Events
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INTED-workshop: Dialogue in Practice Apr. 22, 2026
Join student leader at INTED Mina Haaheim for a practical workshop on dialogue and difficult conversations in academic life.?
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INTED PhD Forum Apr. 24, 2026
Being an interdisciplinary PhD can be challenging: you must weave together different disciplines, methods and vocabularies, often with limited practical guidance.
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INTED-workshop: Travelling Concepts Apr. 28, 2026
In interdisciplinary collaborations, the same concepts are often used with different meanings. In this workshop, participants are introduced to the theory of travelling concepts and get to try out how it can be used in group work and ongoing collaboration.
INTED PhD Forum — Reading & Discussion Series
The INTED PhD Forum offers a supportive, practice-focused space for researchers working across disciplines. Bring concrete challenges from your project, explore interdisciplinary approaches with peers, and develop practical strategies you can use right away.
The Interdisciplinary Ladder
Here you can read and learn about methods and tools for participating in, facilitating, and leading interdisciplinary initiatives. Readers can decide for themselves when and what is useful in their own context.
Highlights from the Honours Conference 2025: Students Facilitate the Future
On October 31 and November 1, the Honours conference 2025: Students Facilitate the Future took place at the University of Oslo, Norway, hosted by INTED in collaboration with
the European Honours Council.?
The theme centered on?students’ potential and agency?in tackling complex, real-world challenges through honours and interdisciplinary education.
What do we mean by interdisciplinary competence?
Developing interdisciplinary competence in addition to expertise in one's home discipline
Social and disciplinary skills are required for working in interdisciplinary teams
The ability to adress challenges that cannot be effectively, ethically, or adequately solved from a single discipline
Student driven activities
Students are key partners in all aspects in all aspects of the center. Students will be involved in the center's leadership, teaching, and evaluation. Academic employees will work alongside students to create programs, courses, and sessions.
Case library
INTED is collecting cases that can serve as good examples of current challenges requiring an interdisciplinary approach.
If you have any suggestions for cases, please submit them to us!
Contact INTED
Department of Physics University of Oslo P.O. Box 1048 Blindern 0316 OSLO
Phone: (47) 41 54 24 23 Email: postmottak@inted.uio.no