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Documents a more knowledge-intensive society

October 9, 2013 - Source: Read the full story at the Research Council of Norway

This year’s indicators report makes it clear that society both in Norway and globally is becoming more and more knowledge-intensive. Education, research and innovation are on the rise in ...
New Norwegian Counsellor for Science in Beijing

September 23, 2013 - Source: Read the full story at the Research Council of Norway

Thomas Hansteen has taken over as Norway’s Counsellor for Science in Beijing, after Kari Kveseth who had held the position since 2010.
University of Bergen's new rector - An international mind

August 1, 2013 - Source: Read the full story at the University of Bergen

UiB’s new rector Dag Rune Olsen looks forward to building on the university’s successes in past years. But what are his own plans for taking UiB further?
NOK 239 million for research on environment-friendly energy

July 30, 2013 - Source: Read the full story at the Research Council of Norway

Powerful maritime batteries and quantum dots for high-efficiency solar cells are among the research topics addressed by the 25 projects recently awarded a total of NOK 239 million in funding ...
Best budding researchers crowned

June 10, 2013 - Source: Read the full story at the Research Council of Norway

The top prize in this year’s annual, nationwide children’s Nysgjerrigper research contest went to pupils at a tiny school in Nordland county, where a combined class of seven ...
Prize for reduction and refinement of animal experiments

June 8, 2013 - Source: Read the full story at the University of Tromsø

Associate professor Gøril Eide Flaten from the University of Tromsø was awarded Norecopa's (Norwegian consensus platform for replacement, reduction and refinement of animal ...
Positive mid-term evaluation of Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research

June 7, 2013 - Source: Read the full story at the Research Council of Norway

The eight initial Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME) received high marks from the panel of international experts that evaluated them half-way through their period of ...
Will study the effect of Norwegian development assistance

June 6, 2013 - Source: www.forskningsradet.no

In the next three years Norway will spend EUR 4 million on research that explores the effect of Norwegian aid, particularly in the past decade.
Mid-term evaluation: Successful national researcher schools

June 5, 2013 - Source: Read the full story at the Research Council of Norway

The mid-term evaluation of the scheme for national graduate-level researcher schools (FORSKERSKOLER) has concluded that the five national researcher schools launched in 2009 have been a great ...
53 million euro for industrial research

May 29, 2013 - Source: Read the full story at the Research Council of Norway

The Programme for User-Driven Research Based Innovation (BIA), the Research Council of Norway’s key competitive arena for industry, has allocated a total of 53 million euro over four ...