TIK is an internationally leading research environment that addresses current issues related to the thematic areas of innovation, science, and technology. Our goal is to be interdisciplinary, innovative and relevant as our research is part of the solution to challenges today and in the future.
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Research projects
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BREAD - Building Responsibility and Developing Innovative Strategies for Tackling Food Waste
Avoiding food waste is at the heart of food sector’s societal responsibility. While the goal of reducing and avoiding the wasting of food is broadly accepted, the questions how best to do it require reflection.
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COMPARE - Comparative immunology of fish and humans
The COMPARE convergence enviroment aims to disentangle how the peculiar immune system of the codfishes function in detail and its implications for human immune disease.
For more information, please see COMPAREs own website.
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CoPol: Covid-19 contact tracing as Digital Politics
CoPol studies Covid-19 contact tracing as digital politics and as data practice on the interfaces between technology, public health and fundamental rights.
Research news
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Cod is called the chicken of the sea: but not easily economized
The green shift has created a strong interest in exploiting the economic opportunities in the ocean, but the ocean is not so easily economized. This is revealed in a comprehensive study, which among other things shows how the cod resists being domesticated.
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Call for abstracts: International Sustainability Transitions conference 2024
The TIK centre is hosting the 15th International Sustainability Transitions conference at the University of Oslo from the 17th to 19th of June 2024. Abstract submission was open until the 20th of February!
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When research data is shared freely
In recent years, Norwegian researchers have increasingly published their research in open access journals. Some go one step further and share their data.
Research events
Professor Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen) will present her research on worker motivations, work meaningfulness, and work orientations.
Sustainability Transitions and Nature
Publications
- Identifying and analysing important model assumptions: Combining technoeconomic and political feasibility of deep decarbonisation pathways in Norway (2024) Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Nykamp, Hilde Andrea; Olkkonen, Ville & Taranger, Karianne Krohn
- Epidemiology’s Data-Drive: Contested Difference Categories and AI Dreaming in the Nordics (2024) Bauer, Susanne
- Industrial innovation processes and societal challenges: How Telenor's mobile phone data became a tool for fighting pandemics (2024) Gulbrandsen, Magnus & Simensen, Erlend Osland