contribute to reduction of greenhouse gases and create value for the Norwegian business sector. The government wishes to prioritise efforts in areas where Norway, Norwegian enterprises and technology clusters may influence the development of hydrogen related technologies, and where there are opportunites for
spectrum of Norwegian trade and industry,” says Anne Kjersti Fahlvik, Executive Director of the Division for Innovation at the Research Council of Norway. "Almost all of the businesses that have received a tax deduction under the scheme report that their projects achieve their objectives and that pa [...] of 30 000 applications attests to the popularity of the initiative as well as to its success," he says. "To succeed economically in the years ahead, Norway is dependent on the ability of trade and industry to think in new ways. We know that the SkatteFUNN scheme leads to more research and innovation throughout [...] targeting areas or problems other than those they have worked with previously. The scheme makes it possible for enterprises subject to taxation in Norway to receive a tax deduction of up to 20 per cent of the costs related to research and development projects. Both industrial research and experimental
conducted in Norway holds a good international standard. The evaluation panel was led by Professor Mats Widgren of Stockholm University. The evaluation primarily encompasses human geography research in Norway. Only a small number of research units in physical geography were evaluated. In Norway, human geography
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For the third consecutive year there will be no real growth in the Research Council of Norway's budget. This will inhibit the long-term restructuring towards an international knowledge society. "Nevertheless, we are pleased that certain important priorities have been established, says Arvid Hallén, Director [...] for international research cooperation under the aegis of the EU. But unfortunately it lacks vision," says Mr Hallén. "We have great ambitions for Norway as a knowledge-based society, and we are sorry to see that this budget does not give us any reinforcement in this area. All signals indicate there
Norway's Ministry of Education and Research has approved an additional NOK 50 million per year for three years for the Research Council of Norway's category Young Research Talent - and the country's eight universities are matching that amount. "This is another major boost for the Research Council's funding
The Research Council of Norway is recommending an increase of NOK 1 billion for research in its proposal to the national budget for 2014. Close to half of this increase would be distributed among eight main priority areas. “The Research Council has great ambitions for Norway as a knowledge-based society
Norway's first 14 Centres for Research-based Innovation (SFI) have been evaluated, half-way through their maximum eight-year period of operation. All of them were given a positive evaluation. The first SFI centres were selected in June 2006 and started up their activities in spring 2007. The SFI scheme [...] None of the centres were recommended terminated. Impressed the experts The evaluation was carried out under the auspices of the Research Council of Norway by international experts with expertise within the scientific areas covered by the centres as well as in organisation and management of competence
studying in the North. The programme is coordinating by the University of the Arctic and its participating institutions in Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Canada and the United States. The North2North programme is organised by the University of the Arctic, an international network of educational