Research Council of Norway's first policy for regional efforts is now in place. The new policy will promote the use of more research in regional development activities. Development and knowledge dissemination are essential to employment, economic growth and welfare throughout Norway. Norway has a broad-based [...] The Research Council's regional policy is part of the effort to meet the challenges facing Norwegian trade and industry in relation to R&D activity. Norway has a broad-based knowledge infrastructure with universities, university colleges and research institutes. This is vital to expanding regional development [...] t efforts," Ms Fahlvik says. A strong regional system for funding research innovation The Research Council has regional representatives in each of Norway's 20 counties. These representatives will become an even more important resource in the future. Over the past ten years the regional representatives
enterprises have been given a powerful reminder of the need to be prepared for the future. The number of foresight projects being carried out here in Norway has risen from around 70 in 2003 to 400 in 2009," states Jan Dietz, who until recently was Special Adviser at the Research Council with responsibility [...] ensuring the competitiveness of trade and industry. Regional foresight has therefore become an increasingly important area of foresight methodology. In Norway the Research Council has helped to generate interest in regional foresight through the Programme for Regional R&D and Innovation (VRI). "Regional foresight [...] foresight activities describes the development of the foresight field and its current status, identifying potential paths forward. Part 2 describes Norway's experience with foresight to date. The reports are available in Norwegian only and may be downloaded in pdf format or ordered as paper copies by
Science at the Research Council of Norway. Broad range The funds have been allocated across a broad range of disciplines. The text corpus of medieval texts has considerable importance for medieval research, in particular for a number of high priority research projects in Norway and the Nordic region (Host: [...] The five databases have all been successful in the fierce competition for funding for research infrastructure, for which the Research Council of Norway will be allocating a total of NOK 500 million following the first call for proposals in 2009. Strategically important "The five projects that have now [...] for research in the field of linguistics and language technology and could enhance Norwegian research at the international level in an area where Norway already has leading research groups (Host: Unifob AS, Bergen. Allocation: NOK 19 million). The expansion of the already much used international dataset
will provide a strong, generous incentive for further developing scientific quality in Norway." From seminar funding to joint study programmes and degrees Arvid Hallén, Director General of the Research Council of Norway, believes the INTPART programme "can become a very useful instrument for establishing [...] NOK 70 million for international partnerships The Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU) are collaborating on the new programme on International Partnerships for Excellent Education and Research (INTPART). The programme's first call for proposals [...] and strengthening contacts between Norwegian and international research groups." "If we are to cultivate more world-leading research groups here in Norway," continues Mr Hallén, "Norwegian researchers must seek experience abroad, and we need more international researchers to come here. Funding from the
Northern Research Institute (Norut) is a national research group located in northern Norway. Norut has research activities within technology, innovation and social science research and carries out research commissions for industry, business and the public sector. The institute has a special focus on [...] on the High North. The Norut Institutes Northern Research Institute is located in Tromsø, Narvik and Alta in northern Norway. The Norut Group consist of the following institutes: Norut Alta - Áltá Norut Tromsø Norut Narvik Norinnova Norut's history goes back to 1984. The group function is ensured by Norut
Standards Norway (SN) is a private member organization with approx. 70 employees. The core activity is to develop standards based on market needs. Standards Norway has the copyright on publishing Norwegian Standards. The organization is a non-profit organization, in the sense that all income will be
The Norwegian Government has launched a new strategy for cooperation between Norway and Brazil. Research is an essential and predominant element in the new strategy. Brazil is Norway's most important partner in Latin America. The Brazil strategy has four main priority areas. Research makes up part of [...] d collaboration and facilitating increased exchange of students and researchers. Role of The Research Council of Norway As a member of the reference group, The Research Council of Norway was involved in the broad process of bringing about the Brazil strategy. The strategy will be included as an important
Research Programme on Marine Resources and the Environment (MARINFORSK). Zum Nachlesen: The Research Council of Norway (23.05.2016): HAVKYST programme concluded The Research Council of Norway : Work programme of the new MARINFORSK programme (in English )
markets for products and services. These countries are also emerging as knowledge-producing nations which Norway must actively relate to." Vast potential Research cooperation may also support Norway's foreign policy, development policy and industrial policy objectives. "This opens up many opportunities [...] Clearer priorities set for bilateral research cooperation The Research Council of Norway has drawn up roadmaps for research cooperation with each of the eight priority partner countries outside the EU/EEA: Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, Russia, South Africa and the USA. "The purpose of the roadmaps
happened to the age balance: The world is growing older One in four researchers in Norway from abroad China learning from Norway's mercury experience (to be published) World's toughest fish (to be published) China meets Norway: Top level collaboration on energy research (to be published) Bilateral research