The Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (also known as INN University, no, Høgskolen i Innlandet) is a state

university college In a number of countries, a university college is a college institution that provides tertiary education but does not have full or independent university status. A university college is often part of a larger university. The precise usage varies ...

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

, established in 2017 from the merger of the

Hedmark University College Hedmark University of Applied Sciences ( no, Høgskolen i Hedmark) was a state university college in Hedmark, Norway, established in 1994. It had four campuses, located in Hamar, Elverum, Åmot (Rena, Norway, Rena) and Stor-Elvdal. The college had ...

and Lillehammer University College. It has six campuses, of which Lillehammer is the biggest, located at the television and radio center built for the

1994 Winter Olympic Games The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 17. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, was an international winter multi-sport event held fro ...

History

The university was formed on 1 January 2017 from the merger of

and Lillehammer University College. The

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is Peer Jacob Svenkerud.

Locations

The university has campuses in Blæstad,

Elverum is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Elverum. Other settlements in the municipality include Heradsbygd, Sørskog ...

, Evenstad,

Hamar Hamar is a town in Hamar Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. Hamar is the administrative centre of Hamar Municipality. It is located in the traditional region of Hedmarken. The town is located on the shores of Mjøsa, Norway's largest lake ...

, Lillehammer and Rena. It has faculties spread across all sites, with approximately 16,000 students and 1,100 employees.

Education

The university offers 35 one-year study programs and 52

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programs, with several taught in English. The university also offers 31

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programs and a choice of 4

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(in addition to one in cooperation with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology). There are also teacher education and further education programs. The main teaching and research areas are

ecology Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overl ...

and agricultural sciences,

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and

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biotechnology Biotechnology is the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. The term ''biotechnology'' was first used ...

, film,

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and culture,

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, animation and game sciences,

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

, and

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and

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The Norwegian Film School

The Norwegian Film School is a faculty at INN University, founded as part of the university in 1997 in the facilities that hosted the media center during the 1994 Winter Olympics. The school had new facilities built in 2004.

Research

The merged university has the following priority research areas: *Applied Ecology *Audiovisual Media * Game Sciences *Child and Youth Competence Development *Services Innovation *Teaching and Teacher Education An Olympic Studies Centre was opened in 2018, and the Centre for Excellence in Film and Interactive Media Arts (CEFIMA) opened in the same year.

References

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