Kjetil Rommetveit

Day Zero 2024 programme

Welcome to Day Zero of the SDG Conference Bergen, 7 February 2024! This year there are more than thirty events. The day starts with a panel on private-public partnerships with focus on Deep-Sea Mining.

Panel discussion SDG Conference Bergen 2023

SDG Conference in Bergen 2024

Welcome to the digital SDG Conference in Bergen 2024! The theme this year is 'The role of universities in transformative change'.

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International Workshop: “AI & The Future of Protest Politics”

The Boston-Bergen Forum on Digital Futures invites to a two-day hybrid event, bringing together prominent philosophers to discuss the impact of AI-based platforms and their underlying technological and economic principles on political discourse and protest.

SEAS Annual Meeting 2023, 15-17th November

The SEAS programme brings together a variety of aspects of marine sustainability, involving all UiB faculties, and many academic and non-academic partners. During three days, 15-17 November, we invite all interested to meet our current 29 SEAS fellows in open poster sessions at the UiB Learning...

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Sheila Jasanoff: Main concepts

In this seminar, Kjetil Rommetveit gave an introduction to 2022 Holberg Prize winner Sheila Jasanoff's scholarship and main contributions.

How can we study science and technology as social activities?

This question is central to the research of the 2022 Holberg Prize winner, Sheila Jasanoff, who has a long-standing collaboration with University of Bergen researchers.

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Why do we agree on anything at all?

SVT researchers write in Norwegian daily Aftenposten about the 2022 Holberg Prize winner, Sheila Jasanoff, and her research on the relationship between expert knowledge and policy-making.

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SVT application in the final to become Norwegian Centre of Excellence

Out of 161 applications, SVT’s Centre of Actionable Knowledges (AcKnowledges) was one of 36 initiatives nationwide that made it to round two of the call.

Embedding sustainability in academic cultures and activities

This session will be hosted by the Sustainability Education Collective (Bærekraftskollegiet), a forum for teachers, students, and researchers involved in sustainability activities at the University of Bergen, and explores how to implement and promote sustainability as a task for universities.

Horizon Europe info day @UiB

This event was organized in January 2022 to learn more about EU's funding for research and innovation. Horizon Europe provides opportunities for researchers in all fields and at all career stages.

Post-Pandemic Citizens

Are we still citizens of Europe? Will the Schengen area go back to normal? Four researchers from Norway, Germany, France and Italy try to answer to these questions in Arqus's first Academic Debate.

Sick society - Exploring the relation between knowledge and action in a pandemic

The SVT symposium 2021 focused on the relation between knowledge and actions in Covid-19 times.

The covid-19 pandemic: A watershed in the development of digital politics

Associate professor at UiB, Kjetil Rommetveit, has received funding from the Research Council of Norway (RCN) to study contact tracing under covid-19 as digital politics.

ASMOG Collaborative Project

Automation Shift in the Maritime Sector of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry: Assessing Risk and Safety, Protecting Labor

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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.

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Thought-provoking new book about sustainability

Researchers at UiB launch a new book in connection with the completion of the MAGIC project. The publication consists of the project members’ thought-provoking and radical ideas about sustainability.

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New publication in the MAGIC project takes a critical look at circular economy

In a recent article co-authored with Mario Giampietro, UiB professor Silvio Funtowicz criticizes the circular economy concept and proposes a different approach to sustainable growth.

Moving Towards Adaptive Governance in Complexity: Informing Nexus Security (MAGIC)

MAGIC was a four-year project funded under the H2020-WATER-2015-two-stage programme; topic “Integrated approaches to food security, low-carbon energy, sustainable water management and climate change mitigation."

Designing freedom? Bringing fundamental rights and freedoms into electricity grids and disaster management through ICTs (DESFREE)

The aim of this research project was to investigate the question of what happens to fundamental rights and freedoms (such as privacy and dignity) as these become matters of engineering and design to be built into emerging ICT infrastructures.

PARticipatory platform for sustainable Energy managemenT (PARENT)

The PARENT project aimed to increase, in a socially acceptable manner, the engagement of individuals in the responsible management of their own electricity usage.

Checking Assumptions aND promoting responsibility In smart Development Projects (CANDID)

CANDID studied aspects of the 'smart' agenda centred on topics concerning users, design, digital rights and critical infrastructures.

Responsible Research and Innovation in Synthetic Biology (SYNENERGENE)

SYNENERGENE was a four-year mobilization and mutual learning action plan (MMLAP) supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme.

Integrated Assessment of Societal Impacts of Emerging Science and Technology from within Epistemic Networks (EPINET)

The EPINET project reviewed and evaluated assessment methods, commonly used to address societal impacts of new and emerging S&Ts.

What can history teach us about the prospects of a European Research Area? (HISTERA)

This study resulted in a report describing some main traits in the development of the European knowledge society up to the present, significantly the tight interactions (co-productions) of science and politics.

a Transdisciplinary approach to the Emerging CHallenges of NOvel technologies: Lifeworld and Imaginaries in Foresight and Ethics (Technolife)

Technolife's goal was to develop new ethical frameworks to address ethical concerns of Europeans in relation to three technological fields.

Reflexive Systems Biology

Reflexive Systems Biology: Towards an Appreciation of Biological, Scientific and Ethical Complexity was an NFR-funded project that aimed to clarify and assess the ambitions of systems biology and their implications.

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ELSA Research - NANO Ethics

One of SVT's research areas was nano ethics, or more precisely: ethical and societal aspects of nanotechnology.

The Human Side of Climate Change

LINGCLIM arranges a multidisciplinary conference on climate change

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