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News from TIK

From June 1-3 2022, the Osiris team attended the yearly Eu-SPRI conference. This year’s theme was “Challenging Science and Innovation Policy” and the aim was to explore future directions for studies of Policies for Research and Innovation with a special emphasis on the topics of Digitization, Open Science and Futuring.
The conference season is upon us and INTRANSIT researchers are presenting work at several events this summer. Here is an overview of INTRANSIT's conference contributions.

As members of the STS community in Norway, we are thrilled to share that Sheila Jasanoff has been awarded the prestigious Holberg Prize for 2022 “for her pioneering research in the field of Science and Technology Studies” write TIK researchers Hilde Reinertsen, Tone Druglitrø and Ana Delgado.

A challenge in transitions is how to efficiently link research with policymakers' current issues, problems, and questions. With that in mind, INTRANSIT, the Norwegian Research Council, and the Ministry of Education and Research hosted a seminar for informal discussions between researchers and bureaucrats from different ministries.

After more than two years of zoom meetings, the Osiris consortium finally met physically again for a two-day meeting in Valencia, Spain. The meeting was hosted by Osiris partner INGENIO and took place at their offices at Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación.

Centre director, Taran Thune, has contributed to a new report on how missions can be used for tackling grand societal challenges in Norway.

We have an open position as PhD fellow in INTRANSIT. The position is connected to research stream 5 on innovation policy and sustainability transitions, and the place of work is the Center for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo.

INTRANSIT offers students access to a vibrant research community, the opportunity to work with and be supervised by leading scholars and industry partners, access to data and partners.
Hør senterleder Taran Thune i en paneldebatt om evolusjonær økonomi og innovasjons rolle i grønn omstilling.

Osiris is happy to welcome two new members to the team: Mayra Morales Tirado from University of Manchester and Gemma Derrick from University of Bristol.

In this newly published book, authors Kristin Asdal and Hilde Reinertsen present a framework for studying documents that enables you to conduct a rich and systematic analysis of documents in all their diversity.
Q&A with Valuethreads project members Nassima Abdelghafour and Liliana Doganova about their recent fieldwork in French Guyana.

Senterleder Taran Thune har gjestet programmet Ekko på P2. I panel med Bjørn Samset (CICERO) og Thina Saltvedt (NORDEA) snakker hun om 'Energikildene vi bør satse pengene på'.

Processing grant applications and assigning them to an appropriate group of experts for evaluation, is one of the challenges of the Research Council of Norway (RCN). At a recent OSIRIS meeting, representatives of the RCN gave insights into their use of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool for optimizing case handling.
Prof. Susanne Bauer (TIK) is research partner in the project "Anthropogenic Soils. Recuperating Human-Soil Relationships on a Troubled Planet", funded by the Norwegian Research Council’s program for Large-scale Interdisciplinary Projects.

Kristin Asdal, Professor at TIK, and colleagues organize a prallell session at the 38th EGOS Colloquium in Vienna 7-9 July 2022. The theme of the session is "Valuation and Critique in the “Good Economy”". Deadline for submitting short papers is 11. January.

Det sier INTRANSIT-forsker Allan Dahl Andersen. Les mer om omstilling og det grønne skifte i disse to Apollon-intervjuene med Andersen og Professor Taran Thune, senterleder i INTRANSIT.

On the 27th of October, INTRANSIT participates in a discussion on "Missions or Markets" at Kåkånomics in Stavanger.

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.

Despite the challenges of the pandemic, there has been a great deal of activity in OSIRIS during the past year.

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.