Lillestrøm is Centre of the Lower Romerike. Skedsmo municipality has about 46.000 inhabitants.
Lillestrøm is
- A city and a region in a rapid development.
- A competance area with about 6000 employees and 5000 students
- Norways second largest technological research environment
- Special strength in renewable energy and environment.
Lillestrom Centre of Expertise is an organisation of knowledge-based enterprises in the Romerike area (Oslo North – Gardermoen)
- We have over 80 members – companies, educational institutions, research institutes and public authorities (municipalities, Akershus County)
- We have the secretariat for OREEC – Oslo Renewable Energy and Environment Cluster
- Our ambition is to contribute to industrial and commercial development, increased value creation, growth and wealth, based on Private – Public partnership.
Lillestrom Centre of Expertises is working to create a knowledge based city development, based om Cultur, Attractivity and Innovation.
Our members benefit from
- Cooperation about common services and personality actions
- Cooperation on training
- Purchase cooperation
- Arranging meating places such as seminars and conferences
- Infrastructur
- Nitteberg – Housing estate for knowledge companies
- Profiling
- Newspaper for the members
- National profiling.
We reach out to our members- and profile our members work- through
- www.kunnskapsbyen.no
- Newsletters
- Editorial articles
- Profiling of the Lillestrøm region as an
Attractive region to live in…
Attractive region to work in…
Attractive region to establish companies in…
Education
We organize a series of activities, coordinated through Career Akershus
- Science centre focused on renewable energy and the climate challenges
- Increasing the number of apprentices in the member companies
- Contact activities between the school and companies
- Arranging courses for pupils and teachers
- FIRST LEGO League arranged in Lillestrøm
- UngForsk every fourth year in Lillestrøm
- Cooperation with the Akershus University College
- 10 upper secondary schools are members
- Cooperation on laboratories and engineering workshops.
Lillestrøm Centre of Expertise facilitates collaborative projects where member companies, institutes, public authorities take part. The projects aim in different ways to contribute to the development of the region and the member companies.
International cooperation
- Cooperation with Pomorskie Region, Poland
- Nordic City Network
- Interreg Sweden-Norway 2008-2011
- The FEM (FIVE) Project
- Interreg Øresund-Kategat-Skagerak (ØKS)
- Scandinavian Environmental technology Export.
We work in close cooperation with Akershus County and Innovation Norway.
We share the same ambitions, and they are also financial partners.