Research

Research projects

The Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) is in charge of and participates in a range of larger and smaller research projects. SVT has the last couple of years successfully won several bids for external funding, particularly from the EU, but the centre also has several self-funded projects. Below you can find information about some of the projects at SVT. All the projects SVT has participated in are available in the project archive.

From the SeMPER-Arctic project: The Uummannaq community gather on the sea ice in front of the island, while the dogsled race is about to start. Picture taken by Jean-Michel Huctin, CEARC research center, ARTisticc Project, 2015

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Jean-Michel Huctin

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The primary objective of the LoVeSe-SDG project is to deploy novel interdisciplinary social science, humanities, marine science and mathematical methodologies to review and critically analyze the current state of knowledge in relation to the international mandate of delivering on the UN SDGs. To support this objective, the project team are working on a concrete case, Andøy Kommune in the Vesterålen region of Northern Norway.

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Joren Room

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From the CALENDARS project: The runic calendar is a type of perpetual calendar that can be used year after year.

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Elisabeth Schøyen Jensen

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Bryggen in Bergen is a case in the Co-cli-serv project, which explores novel ways to transform climate science into action-oriented place-based climate services to engage, enable and empower local communities, knowledge brokers and scientists to act locally.

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Magnus Vabø/UiB

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Screen shot of Zoom meetings with the experts

Screenshot from a UNESCO Global Independent Expert group meeting on 28 January 2021

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UNESCO Global Expert Group

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CCBIO - an introduction - English version

Watch this video for an introduction to the CCBIO project.

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CCBIO

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The RECIPES project aims to reconcile innovation and precaution to foster social awareness and responsibility in the EU in research and innovation.

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RECIPES

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The members of the SuperMoRRI consortium

The SuperMoRRI consortium builds on the work of the MoRRI project (2014-2018) which conceptualised and implemented the first RRI monitoring system in Europe. SUPER MoRRI continues this work, ensuring sustained data collection, curation, further assessment and refinement of the MoRRI indicators

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SuperMoRRI

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AFINO is a virtual research centre for theory and activities on Responsible Research and Innovation and Corporate Social Responsibility.

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Unsplash

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TRANSFORM is an EU-funded project that puts Responsible Research and Innovation principles into practice.

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TRANSFORM

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The aim of BeeCaution, the spin-off project of RECIPES, is to build a Norwegian epistemic network of relevant actors to engage in the RECIPES discussion on precaution and innovation, looking specifically at the case study on neonicotinoid pesticides and bees.

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BeeCaution/RECIPES

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In the project SIZE, Arnald Puy studies the role of size in the sustainability of irrigation systems.

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Wikipedia

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Managing Ethical Norwegian Seascape Activities (MENSA)

Project: Managing Ethical Norwegian Seascape Activities (MENSA)
Principal investigator at UiB: Mimi E. Lam
Financed by: The Research Council of Norway
Project duration: 2020 - 2024

SeMPER-Arctic: Sense Making, Place attachement, and Extended networks as sources of Resilience in the Arctic

Project: SeMPER-Arctic: Sense Making, Place attachement, and Extended networks as sources of Resilience in the Arctic
Principal investigator at UiB: Anne Bremer
Financed by: The Belmont Forum
Project duration: 2020 - 2023

TRANSFORM: Territories as Responsive and Accountable Networks of S3 through new Forms of Open and Responsible decision-Making

Project: TRANSFORM: Territories as Responsive and Accountable Networks of S3 through new Forms of Open and Responsible decision-Making
Principal investigator at UiB: Roger Strand
Financed by: H2020 - SwafS-2019 (€ 2 083 187)
Project duration: 2020 - 2022

BeeCaution: Bees pesticides and precaution: building an epistemic network in Norway

Project: Bees pesticides and precaution: building an epistemic network in Norway
Principal investigator at SVT: Jeroen Van der Sluijs
Financed by: The Norwegian Research Council
Project duration: 2020-2022

UNESCO Global Independent Expert Group

Project: UNESCO Global Independent Expert Group
Scientific coordinator at SVT: Thomas Völker
Financed by: UiB and UNESCO
Project duration: 2020-2021

Knowledge quality assessment as a sense-making device: an enquiry into uncertainties, agency and climate change

Project: Knowledge quality assessment as a sense-making device: an enquiry into uncertainties, agency and climate change
Principal investigator at UiB: Jeroen van der Sluijs
Financed by: The Research Council of Norway, IS-AUR - AURORA mobility programme – Collaboration with France
Project duration: 2020-2021

Neuro-SysMed: A Systems Medicine Approach to Restructure Norwegian Clinical Neurology

Project: Neuro-SysMed: A Systems Medicine Approach to Restructure Norwegian Clinical Neurology
Principal investigator at SVT: Jan Reinert Karlsen
Financed by: The Research Council of Norway, Centre for Clinical Treatment Research
Project duration: 2019 - 2027

#LoVeSeSDG: Localizing and developing SDG-thinking for local communities

Project: #LoVeSeSDG: Localizing and developing SDG-thinking for local communities
Principal investigator at SVT: Jeroen Van der Sluijs
Financed by: The Research Council of Norway, Miljøforsk (NOK 9 300 000)
Project duration: 2019 - 2022

SIZE - The role of size in the sustainability of irrigation systems

Project: The role of size in the sustainability of irrigation systems (SIZE)
Project leader at SVT: Arnald Puy Maeso
Financed by: H2020 - MCSA-IF Global Fellowships
Project duration: 2019-2022

AFINO: Ansvarlig forskning og innovasjon i Norge

Project: AFINO: Ansvarlig forskning og innovasjon i Norge
Principal investigator for WP3 - The AFINO Research School: Anne Bremer
Financed by: The Research Councilf of Norway (30 million NOK)
Project duration: 2019 - 2024

CALENDARS: Co-production of Seasonal Representations for Adaptive Insitutions

Project: Co-production of Seasonal Representations for Adaptive Insitutions
Principal investigator: Scott Bremer
Financed by: The European Research Council, ERC-STG (€1 459 426)
Project duration: 2019 - 2024

SUPER_MoRRI: Scientific Understanding and Provision of an Enhanced and Robust Monitoring system for RRI

Project: Scientific Understanding and Provision of an Enhanced and Robust Monitoring system for RRI
Principal investigator at UiB: Roger Strand
Financed by: H2020 Swafs-21-2018
Project duration: 2019-2023

RECIPES: REconciling sCience, Innovation and Precaution through the Engagement of Stakeholders

Project: REconciling sCience, Innovation and Precaution through the Engagement of Stakeholders
Principal investigator at UiB: Jeroen van der Sluijs
Financed by: EC SwafS (€ 1 999 831)
Project duration: 2019-2021

Res Publica: Responsibility, practice and the public good across Digital Life

Project: 'Responsibility, practice and the public good across Digital Life'
Principal investigator at UiB: Roger Strand
Financed by: The Norwegian Research Council
Project duration: 2017-2022

Co-cli-serv: Co-development of place-based climate services for action

Project: ‘Co-development of place-based climate services for action’ (The project's international website)
Principal investigator at UiB: Jeroen van der Sluijs
Financed by: ERA-NET ERA4CS (€2 110 800)
Project duration: 2017 -2021

CCBIO: Centre for Cancer Biomarkers

Project: Centre of Excellence - CCBIO
Principal investigator at SVT: Roger Strand
Financed by: The Norwegian Research Council
Centre duration: 2013-2023

Project archive

Responsibillity as an integral component of digital research practices in bio- and nanotechnology

Technolife

Value Isobars

SALMOSTERILE

Ethical seafood? - Fisheries and Aquaculture at the Crossroads (ESea)

Responsible research and innovation in synthetic biology

Enzyme development for Norwegian biomass – mining Norwegian biodiversity for seizing opportunities in the bio-based economy

Sustaining ethical aquaculture trade

Pegasus

Reflexive Systems biology

Nanoetikk

Mainstreaming Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Auditing

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SeMPER-Arctic

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TRANSFORM

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BeeCaution/RECIPES

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Neuro-SysMed

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#LoVeSeSDG/UiB

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Afino

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CALENDARS

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Supermorri

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RECIPES

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Co-Cli-Serv

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Relevant links

Project archive

EU success for research centre

The Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities has been extremely successful with their EU applications. We asked centre director Matthias Kaiser to reveal the secret of their success.

Reflections on the first six project months on the Coromandel

The CALENDARS project is still in it's first phase and the first year of the project has been filled with activities. We have had several workshops and public events as well as assemblage the full CALENDAR team in both Norway and New Zealand. Below you can read Dr Paul Schneider's ...

Uncertainty in Science: The Policy-Maker’s Perspective

New dissemination video from the MAGIC project on what happens when there is uncertainty and the science is not complete?

Can intermittent renewable energy power societies?

Uncomfortable knowledge

The MAGIC project has released a set of 2-minutes cartoons with uncomfortable knowledge. Watch them here.

A fast-filling Calendar

The CALENDARS project started on New Years day 2019, and it is off to an energetic start!

RECIPES

RECIPES aims to reconcile innovation and precaution to foster social awareness and responsibility in the EU in research and innovation.

CCBIO Ethics, Economics and Society Course Presented at RRI Conference

Co-development of place-based climate services for action

Co-development of place-based climate services for action (Co-cli-serv) is about how we can develop fine-scaled and tailored information to support local adaptation to a changeable climate.

The book cover of "Cancer Biomarkers: Ethics, Economics and Society"

First CCBIO book release

The ethics, economics and ELSA research groups of CCBIO are coordinating their research activities ever more. In April they published their first joint book volume "Cancer Biomarkers: Ethics, Economics and Society".

Plenary discussion Sheila Jasanoff, Silvio Funtowicz and Alfred Nordmann. Chair: Roger Strand

Building the world we want to live in

Caroline Engen is a CCBIO PhD candidate who presented at the S.Net conference in Bergen. Her lecture was titled "Why Targeted Therapy May Not Work", and was part of the CCBIO session "The Transition from a Blockbuster Model to Personalised Cancer Therapy". We asked Caroline to...

Completed projects

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