Business Mentor

Shaping Tomorrow's Workforce: Join our programme for visionary business leaders!

Nord University has established a Business Mentor Programme to strengthen collaboration between academia and the world of work in the Trøndelag and Nordland regions. The programme aims to foster closer dialogue, enhance the relevance of our study programmes, and create stronger connections between students and regional businesses.

As a business mentor, you will play a central role in facilitating constructive dialogue and the exchange of experience between students, academic staff, and companies.

Your professional experience and expertise provide students with a valuable bridge between theory and practice. As a mentor, you help them develop relevant competencies, strengthen their decision-making abilities, and gain a clearer understanding of the expectations and realities of working life.

By sharing concrete challenges and insights from your own organisation, you give students exposure to real-world opportunities and complexities in the business sector. This opens the door to collaboration on projects with practical value – benefiting both student learning and your organisation.

Interested?

Please contact the relevant faculty contact person to discuss how you can contribute.

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  • Engagement as a Business Mentor is agreed for one year at a time with the relevant faculty.

    Compensation and travel reimbursement provided through the programme are limited to NOK 50,000 per year.

  • The following are some of the examples of the mentor tasks:

    • Research: project participation, proposal writing, and advisory
    • Guidance and teaching
    • Teaching, creative problem-solving, and case studies
    • Development of study subjects and programmes
    • Quality assurance of study programmes and relevance
    • Strategic development work
    • Networking with businesses
    • Knowledge sharing: practical business operations
    • Seminars, advice, and conferences
    • Promotion of continuing education and digital offerings in their networks
    • Mentoring for students
    • Assignment writing and practical experience in companies

    Note: Industry mentors should not be exclusively utilised for teaching, including responsibility for study subjects.

  • The faculties need to identify relevant educational and research programmes where they need business mentors to help them with. They then need to contact the mentors who can help them in these programmes.

    If you are interested in the scheme, you can make direct contact with the contact persons at the faculty to have a discussion about what you can contribute.

    Faculty representatives need to apply on behalf of the mentor. The mentor must be recommended by the Faculty Dean, Faculty Director, or Faculty Pro Deans. After the recommendation from the faculty, a contract will be established between the mentor and Nord University for the period of engagement.

  • Nord University Business School

    Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture

    Faculty of Education and Arts

    Faculty of Social Sciences

    Central Administration

    Employee photo: Umair Najeeb Mughal

    Umair Najeeb Mughal

    Senior Adviser

    Research and Development Division

    Office: Bodø, Administrasjonsbygget, 3.ETG

    Employee photo: Tor Eivind Aaneland

    Tor Eivind Aaneland

    Senior Adviser

    Department of Academic and Student Affairs

    Office: Bodø, Hovedbygget, 2435

Updated
25.02.2026