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UiO:Energy will fund a number of summer research projects within sustainable energy for students. The projects must be carried out between April and October 2020. All students currently enrolled in their last year of a bachelor program, in a master program or relevant professional degree program at the University of Oslo are eligible to apply.  The students selected for summer research projects will each receive a stipend of NOK 40 000.

Early interactions with caregivers can dramatically affect your beliefs about yourself, your expectations of others, and how you cope with stress and regulate your emotions as an adult.

A PhD course on the bioeconomy was held in Oslo 9-13 December as part of the ERC Little Tools project.

TIK*s PhD candidate Henrik Schwabe has won the prize for best PhD paper at the annual meeting of the Norwegian Association for Economists.

Earlier this fall, PROMENTA was joined by two new doctoral research fellows at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography. Liridona Gashi and Eirik Jerven Berger are both part of the Drug Policy Reform research group at PROMENTA, and will be supervised Professor Willy Pedersen and Professor Sveinung Sandberg.

Most likely yes, but removing barriers is not the same as opening the floodgates, says OSIRIS ph.d candidate Lars Wenaas.

Did you know that around one third of global food produced for human consumptions is wasted?

The Little Tools team met for two days of lively discussions on the project and works in progress.

On November 8th, professor Barry Bozeman (Arizona State University) visited the OSIRIS consortium meeting and gave a keynote speech titled Public values criteria in science policy and evaluation: Challenges of moving from theory to application.

On November 7th, Mireille Matt visited OSIRIS and gave a talk on  real-time impact assessment.

How does the rising discontent affect political behavior in the EU?  And how do people from the so-called "places that don't matter" -  vent  their anger against the system at the ballot box?   

Who is a dissident? When did the word enter international political vocabulary, and how did it come to mean human rights activists rather than religious heretics?

On November 7-8, OSIRIS gathered for an intensive consortium workshop. Seven drafts for scientific papers were presented and reviewed, as well as several new ideas for upcoming papers and case studies.

Birthe Soppe, Taran Thune, and Jochen Markard are convening a track on "Sustainability Transitions: Bridging Systems and Organizational Perspectives to Tackle Grand Challenges" on the forthcoming EGOS colloquium in Hamburg in July 2020.  

INTRANSIT researcher Tuukka Mäkitie defended his PhD thesis in innovation studies at UiO on 23 October 2019, amongst other things focussing on policy mixes to advance sustainability transitions in the norwegian oil and gas industry.

On October 23rd, INTRANSIT's Markus Steen held a workshop for the Research Council of Norway on innovation and green & smart restructuring.

The workshop was held at Tøyen in Oslo 14-15 October, with open lectures from invited speakers Eve Chiapello and Andrew Barry.

Nine short stories, rooted in the complex reality of the climate crisis, are presented in this inspiring book. 

Little Tools postdoc Hilde Reinertsen participates in panel on our relationship to nature.

INTRANSIT is happy to announce a four-year postdoctoral positon to work on research on sustainability transitions and industrial transformations. The position is co-funded by INTRANSIT and FME NTRANS.

Kristin Asdal held a presentation on document analysis at a workshop on methods held in Trondheim, 17 September.

The lecture, on "an ethnography of documents", was part of a PhD course on ethnography in STS.

On September 11, Hilde Reinertsen participated in panel on the value of the ocean at the National Theater in Oslo.

The green shift is creating losers in the labour market. David Jordhus-Lier is investigating what people who are in danger of losing their jobs think about Norwegian climate policy.