Bronze
from 10 000 NOK
- Logo on the Dialga sponsor wall
- Named in project write-ups
- Sponsor update twice a year
Partnership
Back the students who
build the hard stuff.
Dialga runs on sponsorship. Lidar, thrusters, lithium cells, carbon fibre, PCB runs and competition logistics are all funded by partners who want their name attached to real engineering — and in front of the engineers doing it.
Why Dialga
Four reasons this is worth your budget.
- 01
Engineers who already ship
Dialga members own subsystems end to end. The same people design the mechanics, lay out the boards, write the firmware, tune the controllers and build the perception stack — then graduate out of NTNU, Norway’s largest engineering university. Sponsors get first look at them.
- 02
Visibility where engineers look
Ligmax competed at Njord 2026, the Autonomous Ship Challenge in Trondheim. Your logo runs on the hull, in the pit, and through every photo, video and technical write-up we publish.
- 03
Working hardware, not slide decks
We document honestly: what we built, what broke, what we changed. Backing Dialga associates your name with machines that actually run — a 4G car driven out of sight, and a boat that holds itself level in a seaway.
- 04
A genuinely hard testbed
Components, tooling and software get pushed well past datasheet-comfortable — saltwater, vibration, thermal load, lossy mobile networks. Send us your parts, we will run them hard and tell you exactly what happened.
Tiers
Pick a level, or build your own.
These are starting points, not a menu we are rigid about. If your company works better with a component budget, a materials agreement or a project-specific deal, we will happily write it that way.
Silver
from 25 000 NOK
Everything in Bronze, plus:
- Logo on the vehicles
- Logo in competition media and video
- Direct introductions to our engineers
Gold
from 60 000 NOK
Everything in Silver, plus:
- Prominent placement on hulls and team apparel
- A dedicated feature in one project write-up
- Demo day — we bring the machines to your office
- Named in press and competition material
Main Partner
from 120 000 NOK
Everything in Gold, plus:
- Top billing on every vehicle, uniform and publication
- “Main Partner of Dialga” usage rights
- A recruitment evening with the team
- Early input on a project subsystem
- A direct line to the project leads
In kind
Money is not the only way in.
A pallet of the right material or an afternoon of machine time can be worth more to us than the equivalent in cash — and it still earns the same recognition as a sponsorship at that value.
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Components & materials
Motors, cells, sensors, aluminium, carbon fibre, resin.
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Fabrication
Machining, 3D printing, composite layup, welding.
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Electronics
PCB manufacture and assembly, connectors, test gear.
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Software & cloud
CAD, simulation and CAE licences, compute credit.
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Space
Workshop, storage or dry-dock access in the Trondheim area.
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Expertise
Design reviews, mentorship, an afternoon with your engineers.
Transparency
Where sponsorship actually goes.
Dialga has no salaries and no overhead. Every krone goes into hardware, fabrication and getting the machines to where they have to perform.
- Propulsion & power Thrusters, motor controllers, Li-ion cells, BMS
- Sensing & compute Lidar, cameras, GNSS, IMUs, embedded compute
- Fabrication Filament, carbon fibre, resin, aluminium, machine time
- Electronics PCB runs, wiring, connectors, instrumentation
- Competition Entry fees, transport, trailer, accommodation
- Safety & tooling PPE, workshop tools, spares and consumables
Get in touch
The sponsor wall is empty on purpose.
We are looking for our founding partners. Send one line about your company and we will come back within a day with the full sponsor deck, current project status and what we would do with the support.
andreas.e.lindeman@gmail.com