Research
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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AI in Society (NorwAI)
TIK is responsible for the work package "AI in Society" as part of NorwAI - Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation. NorwAI is a hub for effective and responsible development of AI within a consortium of partners in Norway, hosted by the Department of Computer Science, NTNU.
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Anthropogenic Soils
Recuperating Human-Soil Relationships on a Troubled Planet
Collaboration at TIK
TIK collaborate with both public and private partners interested in research and research based knowledge.
Doctoral education: PhD
The Faculty of Social Sciences is research-intensive and highly ranked internationally. Our PhD program provides a research education focusing on academic excellence.
Research news
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Individual use of research among civil servants
Civil servants in Norwegian ministries are keen to use research in their work, but it is largely up to each individual to figure out how. At best, this practice leads to a richer supply of information. At worst, it results in inadequate transfer of important knowledge.
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Climate risk may slow the green transition
The notion that climate policy decisions will erode the financial sector’s asset values has been used to mobilise finance for the green transition. It creates a void for action in which the financial industry waits for climate policy, while politicians wait for finance.
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The faculty of social sciences participates in three AI centres
The government's AI billion has been distributed. Six research centres for artificial intelligence have each received a share, with the Faculty of Social Sciences involved in half of them.
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TIK marks 25 years of interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation
– The researchers at TIK have managed to demonstrate how collaboration across disciplines can contribute to generating new ideas and methods that are extremely important, especially in research on major societal issues, says Vice-Rector at the University of Oslo, Mette Halskov Hansen.
Publications
TIKs researchers publish a variety of books, book chapters, articles in scientific journals and other texts. See an overview of our latest publications.