Ligger_iApr 20, 2025
Nicolas Hoizey

My daughter will study one semester at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (#NTNU) in #Trondheim (#Norway), between August 2025 and January 2026. 🇳🇴😍

It looks like she can't get a student apartment despite being there with #Erasmus+, European programme for education, because it’s a short period of time. 😞

Has anyone here on Mastodon already been in this situation, and would have advices about how to find an apartment in Trondheim from France?

Please RT 🙏

Apr 20, 2025 at 1:28pmWeb
Show threadJon in AlbanyApr 20, 2025

@nhoizey I can't speak to that location, but i found my daughter a furnished, month to month apartment for a 4 month internship. Look for corporate things, liked extended stays. AirBnB and VBRO also had month to month apartments and also rooms available in houses in the US. There are probably similar websites there.

Good luck. Sounds like a great opportunity.

Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025

@joninalbany I tried AirBnB and VRBO, but it’s really expensive for such a long period of time.

I'll try corporate things too, thanks.

Show threadUlliApr 20, 2025

@nhoizey @ewen
You might know this site already, but I leave it here anyway.
it is about Private housing from the NTNU

https://www.ntnu.edu/lifeandhousing/trondheim/private-housing

Private housing - NTNU

Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025

@Ulli I think she already found this page and tried several links there, but thanks! 🙏

@ewen

Show threadPasquale 📷 🇫🇷 🦻 Apr 20, 2025
@nhoizey Trop de la chance, elle va pouvoir découvrir la scène électro jazz expérimental improvisée d'avant garde !
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@pasqualeberesti au moins, oui ! 😅
Show threadN3r0Apr 20, 2025
@nhoizey Plan C: campsite
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@N3r0 😲😅
Show threadAudunApr 20, 2025
@nhoizey Either finn.no (general Norwegian marketplace) or hybel.no (specialized for renting rooms and small apartments).
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@audunmb we’ve got both in our radar, thanks 🙏
Show threadcandle2Apr 20, 2025
@nhoizey Maybe the International Office at the foreign university can help out.
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@candle2 we’ll check this, thanks 🙏
Show threadGryApr 20, 2025
@nhoizey I would also try to advertise on hybel and finn asking for a room at a good price. Maybe someone else is going on exchange too and wants to sublet to not lose their room?
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@grymt oh, I didn’t think we could ask for a room on these sites, thanks for the idea 🙏
Show threadGryApr 21, 2025
@nhoizey I also think there are social media channels worth exploring. My daughter is 16 and I think she would have tried Instagram and TikTok, but I guess it takes quite some research to figure out how to reach the right audience
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 22, 2025
@grymt that's what my daughter did for her current apartment, indeed! 👍
Show threadJohannes LinkApr 20, 2025
@nhoizey finn.no is like eBay. Says my son who’s been there a couple of times.
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@jlink we’ll check this, thanks 🙏
Show threadJürgen 🌗🪐🌌 🇦🇹Apr 20, 2025

@nhoizey oh, nice.
I have been there years ago (2007/08) for one year (ERASMUS). 🥰
Quite a lot of students have been there for one semester - would have been too short for me on such a lovely place.

I didn't hear about students who did not get a place in the student villages. But times are changing...

All the ERASMUS-Students got places in shared flats at SIT. Try to contact them directly, maybe they can help. Norwegians are mostly very (very) helpful.
https://www.sit.no/en/housing/our-student-housing-in-trondheim

Most of foreign students lived at Moholt, I got a place at Steinan. But as I read it was sold in 2020. 🙄 Obviously too far away? No, it was nice there. Very nice. But I rode my bike, every day - even in winter - bought spike tires for it.
https://www.underdusken.no/nyhet-steinan-studentby-studentboliger/kjopte-studentboligene-sit-ikke-ville-ha/318607

Good luck. And greetings to your daughter - ha det bra. 😃

Our student housing in Trondheim

Sit wants to contribute to the students’ well-being, and recruit more students to Gjøvik, Ålesund and Trondheim.

Sit.no
Show threadJürgen 🌗🪐🌌 🇦🇹Apr 20, 2025

@nhoizey
"Steinan studentby", 02. August 2008. 🥰

#Trondheim #Norway #Norge #ERASMUS

Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025

@mechanical0815 thanks a lot for the advice.

I now she will love being in Norway, but unfortunately she can only stay for one semester.

Show threadMoruApr 20, 2025

@nhoizey

There are a lot of scams going on here on the other side of the mountain range, I'm sure Trondheim has similar problems. Never pay ahead of time on a "There are a lot of people wanting this, I can hold it for you if you pay me now". Don't pay anything unless you have the key in hand, standing with both feet inside the door and have tried the key in the door...

A lot of students lost a lot of money and still have no appartment.

Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@Moru wow, thanks a lot for the warning, we’ll be careful. 🙏
Show threadNochrisisApr 20, 2025
@nhoizey finn.no is not like ebay it is mainly a second hand market but also the largest site for selling, buying and renting houses. I recommend this place and look for bofellesskap. https://www.finn.no/129464549
This is an example.
Et rom i et stort hus med tilgang til stor stue

Du får leie et rom (11 m²) for kr. 4 000, pluss et lite bidrag for strøm og internett (Wifi). Du får også tilgang til felles stue og kjøkken. Her får

FINN.no
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@Nochrisis ok, thanks! 🙏
Show threadNochrisisApr 21, 2025
@nhoizey No problem. I don't live in Trondheim anymore but if you have questions just ask, maybe I can help. I'm from the Netherlands but live in Norway since 2006.
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 21, 2025

@Nochrisis ok, thanks!

As it happens, my daugther is half French through me and half Dutch through her mother. 😄

Show threadNochrisisApr 21, 2025
@nhoizey cool
Show threadMoruApr 20, 2025

@nhoizey

Often the universitys have a student organisation that has a room-rental emergency service that can help too. Every start of term there are people standing outside the shopping centres here, signing up private people that can spare a room for students that can't get an appartment.

Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@Moru ok, good to know 👍
Show threadPam CApr 20, 2025
@nhoizey If it's like the UK, there should be a Stdent Association which may contain lists of accommodation that you could try.
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@Pamela1960 we’ll try to contact the student association, thanks 🙏
Show threadMortenApr 20, 2025

@nhoizey That doesn't sound right at all.

How about:
https://www.finn.no/realestate/lettings/ad.html?finnkode=374546407&ci=6

Newly renovated Co-Living in Trondheim: Ideal for Erasmus & Exchange Students!

BeskrivelseWelcome to Steinan Student Village!We are pleased to offer newly renovated apartments that perfectly blend comfort and charm.Available for

FINN.no
Show threadMortenApr 20, 2025

@nhoizey And maybe contact SIT directly since they seem to be the biggest supplier of student housing in Trondheim. Exchange students are quite common, even in Norway. I don't think it will surprise them.

https://www.sit.no/en/housing/our-student-housing-in-trondheim

Our student housing in Trondheim

Sit wants to contribute to the students’ well-being, and recruit more students to Gjøvik, Ålesund and Trondheim.

Sit.no
Show threadMortenApr 20, 2025

@nhoizey There's also Camp Trondheim. But I just wanted to link the website for the first place. Finn.no is more where I'd go if I was looking for private housing or wanted to buy some used furniture or something. Maybe textbooks? Dunno.

Trondheim - Bo Coliving - https://bocoliving.no/en/trondheim/

Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@drgroftehauge thanks for the link, it looks like a good resource 🙏
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@drgroftehauge we’ll do that, good idea, might be more efficient. 👍
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@drgroftehauge I’ll check if she already saw this, thanks.
Show threadVegard Andreas Larsen 🇳🇴Apr 20, 2025
@nhoizey The student villages, mostly administered by sit.no, are great and will let her rent as needed. But, unless something changed, the housing is allocated much closer to when school starts, sometimes just a month or so ahead of time. I believe exchange students have priority in some of the villages.
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@vegardlarsen oh good to know it’s too early then, thanks! 🙏
Show threadVegard Andreas Larsen 🇳🇴Apr 21, 2025
@nhoizey I’d recommend starting here: https://www.sit.no/en/housing/book-housing. And call them if you have questions. :)
Book housing

Sit wants to contribute to the students’ well-being, and recruit more students to Gjøvik, Ålesund and Trondheim.

Sit.no
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 22, 2025
@vegardlarsen unfortunately, there is very little chance that my daughter will be able to benefit from this housing, based on what's said here: https://www.ntnu.edu/lifeandhousing/trondheim/sit-housing
Student housing - Trondheim - NTNU

Show threadVegard Andreas Larsen 🇳🇴Apr 22, 2025

@nhoizey my best recommendation woulf be to call Sit (not NTNU), and talk to them directly. My experiences may be outdated.

My reading of the page is that there is some percentage of Sit student housing reserved by NTNU for international students. Your daughter does not qualify for those, which means she should be eligible with «everyone else».

Show threadVegard Andreas Larsen 🇳🇴Apr 22, 2025
@nhoizey If she knows she is starting in Trondheim already now, she has this knowledge long before the Norwegians do (admissions for new students to universities is announced on July 20th), and few potential students sign housing contracts before then.
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 23, 2025
@vegardlarsen ok, good tip, thanks a lot! 🙏
Show threadRobin AdamsApr 20, 2025
@nhoizey If you haven't already, contact the Students Union at NTNU. They usually have a lot of experience with accommodation problems.
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@robinadams we’ll do that also, indeed
Show threadAlerta! Alerta!Apr 20, 2025
@nhoizey Ping @coderbyheart
Show threadOddMinus1Apr 20, 2025
@nhoizey I studied at NTNU from 2010 till 2017, and across several appartments, I have been through a price increase from 3000 NOK to 4500 NOK per month for pretty much a bare minimum appartment with shared facilities. And as far as I've understood, the prices have kept rising. Best of luck! Keep an eye on finn.no and hybel.no as new appartments can appear and be taken quickly. My first place in Trondheim was something I found literally 2 weeks before moving there and starting my first semester.
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025

@OddMinus1 prices seem to be around 6000 NOK now… 😅

We’ll keep checking these sites! 🙏

Show threadCharles Tapley HoytApr 20, 2025
@nhoizey if there’s a local Erasmus Student Network section, try reaching out to them for help. They are typically supporting a lot of incoming Erasmi to find accommodation (it’s the same everywhere. my section in Bonn, Germany did this)
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@cthoyt we’ll try to find if there’s a local section, thanks for the idea 🙏
Show threadWalter TrossApr 20, 2025
@nhoizey Trondheim is close to Hell, actually... (I was hitchhiking on the road from Trondheim to Hell, almost 50 years ago, when a girl in a group of what looked like scouts said to me "see you again in heaven"...)
(Sorry, couldn't resist telling this story, that struck me as funny only many years later – I think the girl was serious!)
Show threadNicolas HoizeyApr 20, 2025
@waltertross nice story! 😉