About SAMT-BU
SAMT-BU is a collaborative project on data-centric service development and seamless services for children and young people – from kindergarten to higher education.
The project’s full title is Felles løft: Connected Services for Children and Young People, running from October 2025 to December 2027.
Background
A root cause of the lack of interoperability across the public sector is a fragmented data infrastructure, insufficient coordination, and limited systematic reuse of data and solutions. This is particularly evident in education and childcare, where information about pupils, parents, staff, institutions and subjects is scattered across many specialist systems.
Municipalities have limited ability in practice to access, share and use the data they need. Staff must perform manual duplicate work, and residents must provide the same information multiple times. The causes are complex, spanning legal, organisational, semantic and technical barriers.
The project is a direct response to the Digitalisation Strategy 2024–2030.
Purpose and ambition
The purpose is to establish a common foundation for collaboration and knowledge about data-centric service development and seamless user journeys across administrative levels and sectors, with piloting anchored in the area of children and young people.
The ambition extends to all services for which the public sector is responsible – not only within education and childcare, but eventually other sectors as well, including private healthcare and finance.
Approach and concept
The project builds on Novari’s FINT (Common Integrations), which has demonstrated a working concept for county authorities. Three key elements characterise the concept:
- Technical architecture – a middleware layer: New solutions are developed against a fixed middleware layer, decoupled from where or how data is stored.
- Holistic and structured approach: Common information models and standardised exchange formats are defined in a shared national service catalogue.
- Collaboration model: The concept requires collaboration across administrative levels and sectors with clearly defined roles.
Partners
| Partner | Role |
|---|---|
| Digdir | Lead applicant. Responsible for coordination, catalogue solutions and knowledge sharing. |
| KS / KS Digital | Promotes municipal sector needs and contributes to common architecture. |
| STAF | Contributes requirements; gains better conditions for guidance and supervision. |
| Udir | Promotes standardised reporting and data sharing across administrative levels. |
| HK-dir | Better overview of connections between education levels and employment. |
| Sikt | Contributes Feide, national registers and data-oriented services. |
| SSB | Contributes to efficient statistical data collection. |
| Novari IKS | Manages county authorities’ needs and contributes expertise from FINT. |
About this website
SAMT-BU Docs is the project’s shared documentation platform. Content is version-controlled using open standards and can be edited directly in the browser without technical knowledge – by subject-matter experts, editors and developers alike.
The site is bilingual (Norwegian and English) to support international collaboration, including initiatives such as Skills Dataspace in the EU.
For guidance on how to contribute, see How to contribute and the User guide. For details on the technical solution, see the solution documentation.