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Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour

Accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, rapid digitalisation has fundamentally transformed European working conditions. While its positive consequences are well recognised, digital transformation also puts a sorely needed part of the European workforce at risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. IDILAB (Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour) investigates the impacts that technological progress and subsequent structural changes have on the labour market integration of migrant workers. By developing a new methodological approach, IDILAB shall provide novel evidence on migrants’ exposure to the process of digitalisation, and formulate evidence-based and innovative policy options for the EU and national governments to improve on the scope and adequacy of national and European policy directed at encouraging a fair digital transition for all, including migrants. The proposed project will contribute with new knowledge on migrants’ own perspectives on barriers and enablers for a sustainable integration in a fast-changing labour market. I, the experienced researcher (Dr Olga Gheorghiev, the Czech Republic), will work with a European centre of excellence (the Research Centre for Digitalisation of Public Services and Citizenship (CEDIC, OsloMet, Norway), and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI, Belgium) for intersectoral knowledge transfer, career development, and European added value.

CULTUral heritage in RurAL remote areas for creative tourism and sustainabilITY

The main objective of the project is to contribute to the promotion of cultural and creative tourism activities, considering the different capacities, resources, and specificities (material, creative, human...) of the territories, as a mean to help with the sustainable development of peripheral rural areas, favoring job creation and population settlement. For this, the potential of its cultural heritage will be researched, taking into account both the artisan material culture (techniques, materials, patterns and decorative elements), as well as the intangible culture (music, oral knowledge and culinary traditions) as a resource.
 
To promote non-seasonal tourism as a form of sustainable development with a stable population settlement we are going to research the crafts linked to the territory and their implications, but we will also carry out a documentation of the productive processes. First and foremost, we are going to cater to the necessities of the local communities and pay attention to aspects related to societal groups at risk of exclusion, such as women, the elderly and the youth.

All this will be developed from a multidisciplinary perspective, for which we will count on the various teams —most of them linked to different countries— that will be part of the consortium. Each of these partners will contribute to the development, as well as to the final result of the project through input directly related to their area of ??expertise: for example, among the collaborators we have intellectual teams specialized in the digitalization of heritage, research, or communication and dissemination, as well as as various institutions that will act as a testing ground for the more practical parts of the proposal. However, if something will characterize our work, it will be the constant collaboration between all parties, as well as the exchange of advice and experiences that will help to enrich collective knowledge and guarantee optimal results.

POWERING ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO DRIVE THE CLIMATE TRANSITION

PACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together in sustainable ways. It does so by examining the concrete circumstances, investigating possible support mechanisms and stress-testing instruments that enable art and culture, creativity and heritage to drive the climate transition.
Therefore, PACESETTERS will set out to:
-Create knowledge from collaborative research to keep pace with the transition
-Propose and test creative business models to set the pace of the transition
-Assess strategies of valorisation to push the pace of the transition
 
This approach will identify and analyse advanced practices that run transversally across the cultural and creative sectors; contextualise the outcomes of co-research in real-world laboratories for social imagination; further develop and promote the preliminary results of experiments in iterative support and evaluation frames. The PACESETTERS approach centres on inclusion, participation and iteration in order ensure that gender equity and diversity inform it at every step and on every level.

The result will be a critical evaluation and all-encompassing demonstration of the actual potentials of the CCIs to drive the climate transition while systematically analysing their impact on micro-, meso- and macro-level:
-Understanding the climate transition as a triple transition: green, digital and inclusive
-Innovating aPACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together. It does so by examining the concrete circumstances, investigating possible support mechanisms and stress-testing instruments that enable art and culture, creativity and heritage to drive the climate transition.

Strengthening resilience and mental wellbeing through the Support4Resilience toolbox for leaders in elderly care

European elderly care experiences labor shortages, lack of qualified workers and a mismatch between capacity and demands, causing stress, burnout, and reduced mental wellbeing among healthcare workers and informal caregivers. Leaders are crucial in promoting supportive working conditions but lack research-based measures to act upon these challenges.

Support4Resilience (S4R) will develop, implement, and evaluate a research-based Toolbox to support healthcare leaders in improving healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing in elderly care. S4R will identify resilience and mental wellbeing factors among healthcare workers and informal caregivers; explore their perspectives and needs; develop new theory on the relationship between individual and organizational resilience, and mental wellbeing; and develop recommendations and cost-effective interventions. The Toolbox with tailormade resources for policy and practical use will be available through an open access S4R Resource Bank.

The S4R Toolbox includes three main tools: 1) Mapping and identification, 2) Reflection and education, and 3) Reorganization. Measures are initiated at the organizational level and effects on mental wellbeing and resilience transpire at the frontline of elderly care. The Toolbox covers different situational contexts, types of healthcare providers and health system levels. Elderly care settings in six European countries will implement and evaluate the Toolbox through a process evaluation, effectiveness evaluation, and cost-effectiveness evaluation. 

S4R provides policymakers, decisions-makers and leaders with solutions for taking action to solve specific risks for healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing. Thus, pertinent to the work programme, S4R will support the development of resilient health systems in European elderly care through improved leadership capabilities, governance structures, and adaptive capacities.

Providing research infrastructure services to support Next Generation EU

This four-year project will harness outputs from key social science RIs in Europe and other reliable sources to support the aims of the ‘Next Generation EU’ programme and to inform EU youth policy. Virtual access will be provided to the outputs through special installations (portals) developed during the project. The core of the proposal is a set of existing research ‘services’, which will be re-purposed and customised to focus directly on the five themes: Make it Green; Make it Digital; Make it Healthy; Make it Strong; and Make it Equal. 

For each area, the consortium will work collaboratively to produce seven sets of resources:

i)	A searchable inventory of relevant variables drawn from multiple cross-national datasets; 

ii)	Analytical summaries, suitable for policy makers and analysts new to the field, as well as interactive resources available through the project portal;

iii)	Harmonised and merged extracts from these datasets that reduce the burden on analysts and increase sample sizes;

iv)	New data collected through the ESS’s established CRONOS web panel infrastructure. Eleven countries will field five waves of the panel, each one dedicated to a NextGenEU theme. Free and rapid access to the data will be available through the CRONOS portal alongside analytical summaries;

v)	In-person and virtual deliberative forums with young people (aged 18-34) in four countries covering the five Next Generation EU’ themes;

vi)	An educational tool (E-NextGen) channelling our data for use in classrooms and by the general public;

vii)	Comprehensive training materials related to all project outputs.


Mapping of Longitudinal data of Inequalities in Education

The MapIE project aims to identify mechanisms causing educational inequalities and policies or interventions compensating for them. We do a systematic review of how these have been studied internationally using longitudinal designs. We map existing longitudinal data that we describe in a public metadata database, and we analyse them to describe the mechanisms of inequalities and to identify effective policies and interventions in different local contexts. We focus on the contextual differences between the Nordic and Central European countries that have structurally different education systems. Within national contexts and using comparative research designs, we look at system-, regional- and school-level policies and practices and individual-level factors (e.g. socioeconomic status, immigrant background, gender, special educational needs) that are associated with the development of educational inequalities and the successful prevention of achievement gaps. We publish and disseminate the empirical results of the project through multiple channels to scientific audiences, policy makers and the wider public. At the end, we create a public framework for studying educational inequalities longitudinally in future studies, acknowledging the role of local contexts but aiming for comparability at the European level. 

We implement the project in seven work packages. Our consortium consists of internationally acknowledged experts in large-scale educational assessment research from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary and Luxembourg/Germany. The partners have a long-standing history of collaboration with each other, European researchers, and national and international education policy makers, and they bring extensive longitudinal datasets to the project. The project will considerably strengthen the knowledge base of what shapes educational outcomes over time, how to best support the learning of all students and how to reduce education inequalities in the short, medium and long term.

Contextualized pathways to reduce housing inequalities in the green and digital transition.

The project Reducing housing inequalities in the green and digital transition (ReHousIn) is committed to better understand the impacts of recent crises on housing inequalities across different European regions, especially with regard to the implementation of the green transition launched by the EU. The overall aim is to explore the mechanisms affecting the (re)production of housing inequalities under recent crisis conditions, and the impacts of the EU induced green transition in different national contexts and along different degrees of urbanisation. Based on a contextualized and comparative understanding of the mechanisms (re)producing housing inequalities, ReHousIn inquiries into multi-level pathways and inclusive local housing initiatives to spark innovative EU, national and local policy solutions towards inclusionary and quality housing, mitigating the possible negative impacts of the EU induced green transition. It conducts a comparative, multi-level analysis in 9 European countries – Austria, France, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom – focusing on attractive metropolitan regions, middle-sized cities and rural areas by means of a mixed-method project design. A quantitative data analysis on recent trends in housing inequalities and their relation to crises across different levels of urbanization will provide the framework for 27 local cases studies in which the impact of multi-level trajectories of housing-system, welfare regimes and environmental policy instrumentations on the (re)production of local housing inequalities and the emergence of inclusive housing initiatives are analyzed. Based on this, ReHousIn compares mechanisms of differentiation feeding into policy labs, aiming to formulate recommendations on how to tackle negative social externalities related the EU green transition at EU, national and local levels.

Strategies for achieving equity and inclusion in education, training and learning in democratic Europe

STRIDE will provide a new, comprehensive and comparative knowledge-base on effective education reforms, policy initiatives and interventions aimed at reducing inequalities in education, training and learning outcomes in Europe. STRIDE will do this through analyses of education reforms in national and regional systems, existing large-scale educational assessment data and existing longitudinal data on the causal link between educational and other social policies and inequalities in educational achievements. In examining the learning progress of students over time, STRIDE will closely examine to the range of intersectional variables such as socio-economic background, gender, (dis)abilities, migration status, home language, early childhood education and care (ECEC) attendance, which may affect learning outcomes in different ways in different contexts. The project will combine diverse methods, data and disciplines (comparative education, political science, education science, sociology) in innovative ways: mapping at national and regional levels on (1) education reforms in the past 25 years by policy analysis, (2) longitudinal trends of inequalities in educational achievement by quasi-experiment analysis of existing large-scale educational assessment data, and (3) effect of education reforms and interventions by analysis existing longitudinal data and registry data following student cohorts over time combined with a qualitative inquiry into policymakers' perspective. Through the involvement of national and European stakeholders, STRIDE will develop methodology and assessment tools for policy learning offering policymakers a toolbox of enhanced knowledge of what shapes educational outcomes over time and demonstrating the usefulness of longitudinal data in policy-making to reduce educational inequalities in the short, medium and long term.

dialoguing@rts – Advancing Cultural Literacy for Social Inclusion through Dialogical Arts Education

d@rts is a catalyst for increasing social cohesion and inclusion, using embodied performing arts activities to develop cognitive and affective cultural literacy. We recognise that the performing arts encompass mass-market consumer goods, as well as non-linguistic, embodied and social activities, providing massive opportunities for inclusive participation.
Our target groups comprise actors of all ages and social positions, especially in the school system and in community arts initiatives. We will empower these groups to be artistically active, dialogically related and culturally literate, giving them tools and motivation to improve their own situations and those of others within the overall frame of a cohesive European society, informed by global perspectives.
Using the post-colonial insight that culture is necessarily heterogeneous, d@rts has four related objectives:
1. Understand how performing arts activities relate to cultural literacy in official discourse and documents across partner countries
2. Use this understanding to build dialogues and co-create physical and digital actions with heterogeneous groups within our target audience
3. Develop assessment tools for these actions, enabling measurable growth in cultural literacy
4. Use our findings in recommendations for cultural and educational policies that build long-term social cohesion and inclusion
Based on these objectives, the overall outputs comprise:
1. Documentary, survey and participatory research findings
2. Performative DIALOGART actions for cultural literacy
3. Policy and practice recommendations to increase social cohesion via cultural literacy actions inspired by the performing arts
d@rts imagines new futures and creates hope and social cohesion through performing arts education. By creating participatory spaces and facilitating dialogues, we empower voices seldom heard. d@rts thus advances cultural literacy, and enhances social cohesion and resilience, to build an inclusive future for Europe.

REGULAR AND UNPLANNED CARE ADAPTIVE DASHBOARD FOR CROSS–BORDER EMERGENCIES

During cross-border health emergencies, health and care services may be overwhelmed by high numbers of patients requiring unplanned care. Delays and backlogs in regular care, as a result of the stretched health care system, leave millions of patients with regular care needs unattended, resulting in disastrous healthcare outcomes. If poor healthcare outcomes across the population are to be avoided, healthcare systems must become more resilient and flexible and allow for rapid changes in the care delivery services. RAPIDE’s aim is to develop, validate and demonstrate a portfolio of powerful tools that enable healthcare systems to build in robustness of decisions, resilience of the health care professionals and patients and flexibility in the modalities of care delivery, thereby maintaining access to regular care during health emergencies. 

RAPIDE emphasises opportunities for optimising in-hospital care, but also for relocating care from hospitals to community and home environments without loss of care quality. Thus, the project focuses on two closely-linked challenges – 1: Identifying and predicting how much care, and which care, needs to be moved along the care chain; 2: Identifying and verifying effective, feasible and acceptable ways to make this reconfiguration of care a reality. This will be achieved by (a) resource modelling, which builds comprehensive foresight and forecasting solutions and links them to patient flows optimization, along the whole chain of care, (b) selecting and implementing the best available tools to deliver regular care in new ways. To ensure usability, acceptability and equitable real-world value, RAPIDE will be co-designed and co-validated with stakeholders, from patients, GPs, clinicians and hospital managers to health ministries, pandemic-management and public health agencies. A Table Top Exercise and extensive communication and dissemination will raise awareness of the project’s successes.

Innovasjon og utvikling i helsestasjonstjenesten i Oslo

Midlene fra HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester fordelt på år

Midlene fra HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester fordelt på fylker

Midlene fra HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester fordelt på fagområde

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2018: Med bakgrunn i store utfordringer på flere hold satte Bydel Stovner i 2013 i gang utviklingen av et prosjekt med fokus på primærtiltak og forebyggende arbeid. Resultatet ble «Nye mødre», en pilot utformet som et universelt tilbud, der helsesykepleiere gjennomførte gjentatte hjemmebesøk til alle førstegangsforeldre fra uke 28 i svangerskapet og, avhengig av familiens behov, frem til barnet var to år. Prosjektet ble integrert i helsestasjonstjenesten, og innebar at samme helsesykepleier gikk på hjemmebesøk og fulgte opp barna og familien i ordinært helsestasjonsprogram. Tanken bak hjemmebesøk i svangerskapet var at helsesykepleier skulle bli kjent med den kommende familien før fødsel, og dermed skape en god relasjon som ga trygghet og tillit for videre samarbeid. Det teoretiske perspektivet var salutogenetisk, der mestringstro og brukermedvirkning står sentralt. Det innebar at fokus under hjemmebesøkene var rettet mot ressursmobilisering for å styrke familien og være en drivkraft for positive endringer og valg. 

Med bakgrunn i erfaringer fra «Nye mødre», samt tilgjengelig kunnskap om nytten av tidlig intervensjon besluttet Byrådet i Oslo i 2016 å bygge videre på pilotprosjektet. Resultatet ble intervensjonsprogrammet «Nye familier», der både mor, far/medmor og barn inkluderes. Programmet benytter i hovedsak samme teoretiske grunnlag og metodiske tilnærming som «Nye mødre». Noe ulikt er at målgruppen nå er de som venter sitt første felles barn, første barn i Norge og flerbarnsfamilier som har behov for ekstra støtte og hjelp. Målene for «Nye familier» er å styrke barnefamilier og fremme god helse hos foreldre og barn, skape en god og trygg start på barndommen, fremme barns skolemodenhet og styrke mor og fars mestringsevne og trygghet i foreldrerollen. I tillegg skal det arbeides tverrfaglig for å styrke familiens deltakelse i samfunnslivet. Langsiktig er målet å redusere kostbare sekundær- og tertiærforebyggende tiltak, for eksempel barnevernstiltak og redusere utgifter til velferdsytelser. Programmet er i per dag implementert i 11/15 bydeler, og vil innen utgangen av 2019 være ute i hele Oslo.
2019: Programmet har fått mediefokus, da dette er et sterkt politisk satsningsområde for Oslo kommunes Byrådsavdeling for oppvekst og kunnskap. I tillegg har det gjennom deltakelse i ulike nettverk, på konferanser og kongresser i inn- og utland blitt presentert både muntlig og på postere. I løpet av 2018 har "Nye familier" sju ganger blitt presentert eller vært i media, og i 2019 har "Nye familier" blitt presentert 12 ganger i ulike settinger. Forskningsprosjektet er historisk i den sammenheng at det er det første som er eid av Oslo kommune og der VID vitenskapelige høyskole er akademisk ansvarlig i samarbeid med UiO og FHI. Prosjektet har avsluttet rekruttering av foreldre i intervensjons- og kontrollbydeler i oktober 2019. Det er 428 deltakere som har sagt ja til å delta i prosjektet. Datainnsamling vil fortsette til våren 2021.
2020: Datainnsamlinger er avsluttet for de første tre målepunktene og data er plottet inn.  Det er gjennomført en spørreskjemaundersøkelse til deltakende foreldre i forbindelse med konsekvenser av Covid 19. Data er analysert og en artikkel er innsendt til tidsskrift for publisering. En ny spørreundersøkelse til deltakende foreldre om konsekvensene av Covid 19 ble gjennomført i november/desember 2020.  Det ble høsten 2020 gjennomført intervjuer med foreldre i intervensjonsbydelene.
2021: Alle data (5 spørreskjemaer) er plottet og kontrollert og klare for analyse. Det er 428 deltakere i studien (mødre og fedre) på første måletidspunkt 28 uker i graviditeten. 60% av deltakerne har svart på siste spørreskjema 12 måneder etter fødsel. Det er publisert 2 vitenskapeliege artikler fra prosjektet i 2021. Prosjektet er presentert på fire konferanser og i fire forskningsrelaterte møter i 2021. Prosjektgruppen har hatt 2 styringsgruppemøter og 4 prosjektgruppemøter og et seminar med Advisory Committee.
2022: Foreløpige resultater viser at helsesykepleierne opplever hjemmebesøksprogrammet som nyttig for foreldrene og nyttig for å få kontakt med foreldrene tidlig for lettere å kunne gi tilpasset oppfølging senere. Foreldrene opplevde hjemmebesøket før fødsel med helsesykepleier som nyttig og betryggende og mente det var et godt tilbud. Prosjektet har publisert 8 vitenskapelige artikler. Syv  vitenskapelige artikler er under review og under arbeid. En masteroppgave er gjennomført og en er under arbeid. Prosjektet er presentert 8 ganger på internasjonale og nordiske konferanser og 12 ganger på nasjonale konferanser. Prosjektet er presentert 32 ganger på nasjonale og internasjonale samarbeids- og forsknings-møter. Prosjektets resultater er omtalt i Aftenposten, nettavis 10.12.2022 og papiravis 11.12.2022. I 2022 arrangerte prosjektet et fysisk møte med Styringsgruppen og Rådgivende komite  og  en konferanse i Oslo Rådhus med 150 deltakere, samt 2 kursdager med 100 helsesykepleiere fra Oslo kommune.

The Primary health care (PHC) in Norway is experiencing an escalating demand for complex and long-term social services. A high degree of social disparity and poverty increases the need for comprehensive measures and expanded services for a larger number of families and individuals. The Child Health Service (CHS) is an integrated part of the primary care services. CHS includes all children from birth until 18 years. CHS is perhaps the most under-researched entity in the PHC. 

New families (NF), an early intervention program will be implemented in all of Oslo by the end of 2020. The NF universally targets all first-time parents regardless of socioeconomic status, and consists of PHNs providing extensive home visits from gestational week 28 until the child is two, in order to support and help families based on their needs. 
The intention of the proposed project is to use the four next years, to explore if, and to what degree, the NF improves the quality of the existing services, secures personalised service and early intervention in CHS in Oslo. We will create two work packages; The effect of a primary prevention family-centred healthcare intervention and Service development in Child Health Service. The primary objective is that the New Families project will secure innovative and needed practice-based research that enhances the quality, knowledge-base and impact of the CHS service in Norway. 

An experienced group of researchers and content experts are confident in the merits of the proposed evaluation. The project will be led by the Department for Primary Health and Social Affairs, City of Oslo and VID Specialized University (VID) as administrative responsible main partner. Core collaborators are UiO and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI). The project has an international Advisory Committee. The risks are mainly lack of funding, long term illness among central team members, and political decisions that could change the context of the involved areas.

New families- Innovation and Development of the Child Health Services in Oslo

Prosjektet AQUASTAR søker å utvikle teknologi som muliggjør lokalisering og reparasjon av hull i oppdrettsnøter. Dette omfatter bruk av ubemannede undervannsfartøy samt utvikling av systemer for automatisk deteksjon av hull, hullreparasjonsverktøy og styringssystem for både undervannsfartøy og en robotarm som benyttes for å utføre reparasjonen. Dette innebærer også et system som tillater farkost og robotarm å samhandle, der den raske responsen og presisjonen på bevegelsene til robotarmen vil kompensere for uønskede og trege bevegelser fra farkosten på grunn av strøm eller unøyaktig styring. Videre vil teknologien som utvikles være anvendbar innen flere andre marine operasjoner som bruker eller søker å ta i bruk farkost-manipulator-systemer. Eksempler på slike operasjoner kan være plukking av gjenstander i vannsøylen eller på havbunnen, til operasjoner på havbunnsinstallasjoner, vedlikeholdsoperasjoner på flytende havvindanlegg, og både skadedeteksjon og vedlikehold på skipsskrog. Den tiltenkte forskningen i prosjektet adresserer fem ulike men sammenkoblede og tverrgående mål: a) struktur- og objekt-relativ navigasjon; b) optisk gjenkjenning av objekter; c) styring av fartøy-manipulator-system; d) reparasjonsverktøy for hull i oppdrettsnøter; og e) validering av fullt integrerte systemer i feltforsøk. 

Prosjektet vil utnytte den tverrfaglige kompetansen, industriekspertisen og erfaringene i teamet (Njord Aqua, SINTEF Ocean, Måsøval, NTNU) med formål om å utvikle og demonstrere et verktøy som bidrar til umiddelbar reparasjon under inspeksjonsoperasjoner. Resultatene fra prosjektet vil være ny forskning og nye systemer som legger til rette for mindre rømming av oppdrettsfisk og fremme bærekraft ved å redusere miljøavtrykk hos oppdrettsnæringen. Disse resultatene vil være anvendbare innen andre maritime næringer, som fiskeri, subsea olje- og gassproduksjon, havvind og skipsfart.

In Norway, the main reason for fish escape in sea-based fish cages is due to holes in the net. Fish escape has a negative impact on the environment through mixed breeding and spreading of pathogens to wild fish and on production through loss of invested resources. It is common practice to employ remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for net inspection, but it is challenging to accurately control the ROV while coping with environmental forces and avoid causing damage to the net. The task increases in complexity when the operator is also required to carefully look for holes and keep track of already inspected areas. Holes are typically repaired by divers who sew the net, but the duration between detection and repair can be long, and the repair operations involve both high personal risks and costs. Attempts have been made to repair holes using underwater vehicles and customized solutions but none of these are known to be widely applied. 

The AQUASTAR project will develop innovative technology for autonomous structure inspection, feature localization and structure repair, where aquaculture is chosen as a case study. The R&D challenges thus relate to net- and hole-relative positioning, hole localization, coupled vehicle-manipulator control for conducting repair operations, and hole repair tools. Solutions to these challenges may be considered enabling technologies for further research and innovations in other maritime industries where robotic systems are required to perform inspection, maintenance, and repair operations. 

The AQUASTAR project aims to reduce the number of fish escapes and at the same time improve the underwater robotic inspection, maintenance, and repair services in aquaculture.

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MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offsh-2

Autonomous Underwater System for Targeted Assessment and Repair

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland