Member of the Norwegian Quantum Cluster
OsloMet has become a member of the new network Norwegian Quantum Cluster, which will be a national competence center for quantum technology and quantum science.
The Norwegian Quantum Cluster (norskkvanteklynge.no) was launched during Arendalsuka in August 2025, by the University of Oslo, NTNU and SINTEF, and will be a research-driven competence center within quantum science and quantum technology.
The cluster will be a resource for Norwegian authorities in issues related to quantum science, and will collaborate closely with public actors and the business community.
"OsloMet has a strong professional environment within quantum technology, and I am pleased that we will contribute our expertise to the collaboration in the Norwegian Quantum Cluster" says Rector Christen Krogh.
"It is important that we coordinate efforts to ensure that Norway can position itself in the global development of quantum knowledge. It is about being able to utilize technology to solve major societal challenges, and not least about securing national interests in the future" says Krogh.
In addition to the initiators and OsloMet, Kongsberg Gruppen at Kongsberg Discovery, NHO, University of Bergen, Simula, the Norwegian Defence Research Institute, NORCE and the University of Southeast Norway are members of the Norwegian Quantum Cluster.
OsloMet is unique in some areas
At the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, OsloMet has a strong academic community within quantum technology, and the university has also established its own quantum hub – OsloMet Quantum Hub (oslomet.no).
Dean Laurence Habib says that OsloMet's academic community is good and unique in several areas.
"Algorithm development with a special focus on noise in existing “NISQ” machines, and quantum programming and programming models for quantum, are two areas in which we are well advanced" says Habib.
"We have also established education within quantum technology where students do not need to have prior knowledge of mathematics and physics. A great many people in our society are not familiar with quantum technology, and it is a democratic challenge now that development is happening so rapidly. Therefore, we want to help make the area more known among people outside academic communities" she says.
The academic community at OsloMet Quantum Hub is active with a number of research projects (uni.oslomet.no).
In june they received funding for an important project that will strengthen the national research infrastructure for quantum computing.
This text has been translated with the help of AI.
