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.

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CoPol studies Covid-19 contact tracing as digital politics. Screenshot of the Covid-19 dashboard of Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. URL: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

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JHU CSSE COVID-19 Data

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MENSA's overarching aim is to develop an integrated ethical approach to the sustainable management of Norwegian seascape activities.

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The MENSA project

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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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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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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 research projects at SVT. You can find an overview of SVT's completed projects here.

CoPol: Covid-19 contact tracing as Digital Politics

Project: CoPol: Covid-19 contact tracing as Digital Politics
Project manager: Kjetil Rommetveit
Financed by: The Research Council of Norway
Project duration: 2021 - 2025

CANALS: Changing Water Cultures

Project: CANALS: Changing Water Cultures
Project manager: Simon Meisch
Financed by: H2020 - MSCA-IF European Fellowship
Project duration: 2021 - 2023

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

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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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Co-Cli-Serv

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CCBIO

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Completed projects

CoPol: Covid-19 contact tracing as Digital Politics

CoPol studies Covid-19 contact tracing as digital politics and as data practice on the interfaces between technology, public health and fundamental rights.

Managing Ethical Norwegian Seascape Activities (MENSA)

MENSA is funded by the Research Council of Norway, and its overarching aim is to develop an integrated ethical approach to the sustainable management of Norwegian seascape activities.

SeMPER-Arctic

The SeMPER-Arctic project collects local stories of changes, crises and shocks in three Arctic communities in Greenland and Russia, and analyses in an interdisciplinary way how these narratives incorporate notions of resilience.

TRANSFORM

Territories as Responsive and Accountable Networks of S3 through new Forms of Open and Responsible decision-Making (TRANSFORM) is a EU-funded project that puts Responsible Research and Innovation principles into practice.

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

The aim of Beecaution 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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UNESCO Global Independent Expert Group

UNESCO has partnered with the University of Bergen to establish the Global Independent Expert Group on the Universities and the 2030 Agenda (EGU2030).

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Knowledge quality assessment as a sensemaking device (KQA-SMD)

This project is an enquiry into the ability for climate change knowledge assessment to strengthen local communities through sensemaking.

#LoVeSeSDG

#LoVeSeSDG - Localizing and developing SDG-thinking for local communities - is a project that focuses on the Lofoten-Vesterålen-Senja (LoVeSe) region in Norway.

AFINO (Ansvarlig forskning og innovasjon i Norge)

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

CALENDARS Project

CALENDARS is an ERC funded project looking at how rapid seasonal changes are affecting institutions in society and how we can re-learn and adapt to seasonal change in new ways.

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Scientific Understanding and Provision of an Enhanced and Robust Monitoring system for RRI (SUPER MoRRI)

The SUPER MoRRI project departs from the MoRRI project, the first large-scale attempt at creating a monitoring and evaluation system for RRI.

RECIPES

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

Co-cli-serv

Co-cli-serv 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.

Integrating ELSA into CCBIO

CCBIO’s ELSA team is a dedicated research group on the ethical, legal and social aspects of cancer biomarkers. The group’s model is that of “integrated ELSA”, namely to build ELSA awareness and capacity throughout the CCBIO by interaction both in the scientific venues and the governance bodies of...

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.

Completed projects

Below is an overview of completed projects SVT has led or participated in.

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