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Several INTRANSIT researchers are attending this week's International Sustainability Transitions Conference (IST). Here you can get an overview of our contributions and presentations at the conference.
Birthe Soppe, Panikos Georgallis, and Shon Hiatt are convening a track on "Markets for Sustainability: Evolving Challenges, Imperfections, and Trade-offs" at the EGOS Colloquium in Vienna in July 2022.
On September 1st, 11 Oslo-based OSIRIS researchers gathered in Fredrikstad for the first physical workshop in almost 1,5 years.
In a study of more than 50.000 participants, researchers from the Lifebrain consortium found that although more education and higher income tended to be associated with larger brain volumes and better cognitive scores, these associations varied considerably between groups studied.
Despite the challenges of the pandemic, there has been a great deal of activity in OSIRIS during the past year.
People want clear, evidence-based information about exactly which lifestyle changes can improve their brain health, according to a new report from the Lifebrain consortium at the University of Oslo.
In June 2021, OSIRIS co-organised the annual Eu-SPRI conference. The digital format attracted a record number of more than 400 participants for the three-day online event.
OSIRIS researcher Gry Høiland is studying how research is used in the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV).
INTRANSIT co-hosts Eu-SPRI 2021. Eu-Spri is an annual conference focused on research and innovation policy.
The Eu-SPRI 2021 conference invites participants to a more critical and reflexive discussion of the linkage between science and innovation.
OSIRIS is happy to offer a three-year postdoctoral position to carry out longitudinal case studies of how research gets used.
We are happy to announce that the Research Council of Norway (RCN) has decided to fund the OSIRIS Centre for the last period of the centre. An international panel of experts has evaluated the centre and recommended that it continues. This recommendation was adopted by the RCN's board of directors in February this year.
UiO:Life Science does not offer its own courses or study programs in life sciences, but wants to contribute to providing the students with the best possible educational programs. Departments and faculties can now apply for support to develop interdisciplinary bachelor courses in life sciences. The application deadline is 1 April.
15-21 March is the International Brain Awareness Week in 2021, an educational initiative aiming to raise awareness of the importance of brain research and brain health.
The Little Tools project was recently featured in the European Commission's 'Results Pack on frontier research for the Green New Deal'.
From the 9th to 11th of December 2020, the OSIRIS team participated at the Workshop on Medical Innovation (WOMI), which was organised by Maynooth University School of Business and Gothenburg Center for Knowledge-intensive Innovative Ecosystems.
PIs Espen Røysamb and Ragnhild Bang Nes scored two for two this week as grants from the Research Council of Norway were announced, adding two exciting new projects to the Promenta portfolio. These grants provide the resources to do groundbreaking research into the field of quality of life and wellbeing, from two rather different perspectives.
TIK's ERC Starting Grant project welcomes two new research assistants, Minja Mitrovic and Jonas Engestøl Wettre, to the group.
The article “Innovation in natural resource- based Industries; a pathway to development?” by TIK researchers Allan Dahl Andersen and Erlend O. Simensen, is the first one to cross 10.000 reads in the journal Innovation and Development.