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Association membership In August, participation was made in “Arendalsuka”, a week
Continuous growth of the organizations is of great important, where politicians, journalists, leaders and universities meet to
also including students before they graduate, in order to have discuss current issues and do networking. In this framework,
credibility as “the engineers’ voice”. Therefore, both Tekna a seminar on 5G was conducted. Tekna’s major event was
and NITO are present at the universities during matricu- a “No planet, no Business” panel debate on sustainability.
lation and the weeks thereafter. Both member organizations There were also debates on ICT security and support practice
are working on increasing the numbers of employees to be in STEM educations.
members of a union.
NITO and Tekna supported IPCCs report on CCS (Carbon
Cyber Security, Digitalisation and CPD Capture and Storage) and to implement full scale CCS and
There has been a strong focus on Cyber security and Civil support CCS as an industry in order to keep global warming
protection, the engineer’s role in this debate and the lack below 2 degrees.
of competence within this area. The government decided
to build “Digital21” as a source of advice and guidance on FEANI Norway
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digitalization for industry and commerce. Tekna and NITO 1 of July 2019 Tekna and NITO switched the Leadership
have taken an active part in Digital21. Political influence on positions of the Norwegian National Committee. This means
the premises for lifelong learning and CPD, also for those that Tekna’s Vice president Vidar F. Hansen, replaced Trond
with Bachelor- and Master degrees, is considered important. Markussen as President, while NITO’s General Secretary
Steinar Sørlie, replaced Ivar Horneland Christensen as
Political Context General Secretary. 
From March 2019 onwards, the trade unions in Norway
negotiated agreements and wages. Our members negotiated
locally, at each workplace. Norway held municipal and
regional elections on 9 September 2019. During August and
September, Tekna and NITO hosted events, met with local
politicians and took other action to promote issues of impor-
tance to its members and citizens.