17 projects

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INTSAMARBEID-INTSAMARBEID

Strength2Food FORSTERK

The goal of Strength2Food FORSTERK has been to contribute to increased knowledge and dialogue about sustainable food systems in Norway. The project builds on the results of the Horizon 2020 project Strength2Food, which was completed in 2021. A total of 12 European and 2 Asian countries participat...

Awarded: NOK 0.79 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

REDUCE - Rethinking Everyday Plastics

Prosjektet REDUCE er et tverrfaglig samarbeid mellom forskere fra feltene design, sosiologi og historie samt en rekke bedrifter og organisasjoner. Sammen skal de se på plast i et systemperspektiv og undersøke hvordan vi kan redusere forbruket av plastprodukter i hverdagslivet. Prosjektet vil særl...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FFLJA-FFLJA

FoodLessons: Culinary Heritage as a Resource in Developing "Food Nation Norway 2030"

FoodLessons (2021-2024) is a research project that explored how Norway’s culinary heritage could be used as a resource for business development and value creation, with the goal of building “Food Nation Norway 2030.” The project was a collaboration funded by the Research Council of Norway’s FFL/J...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Wasted Textiles: Reduced synthetic textile waste through the development of resource-efficient value chains

Wasted Textiles objective is to reduce the use of synthetic textiles and the amount wasted. The project is led by Ingun Grimstad Klepp at SIFO/OsloMet and financed by Research Council of Norway and Norwegian Retailers' Environment Fond. The use of plastic has increased rapidly over the last 50 ye...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Diversifying sustainable and organic food systems

Today's food system is characterised by increasing standardisation in the production, distribution and consumption of food. This development has come at the expense of a more diverse range of locally and organically produced food. Based on the consumer culture in different European countries, the...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Sustained employment of hard-to-place citizens in small and medium sized enterprises: A mixed-method study in Norway and the Netherlands

This project investigates how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can succeed in hiring and retaining persons with disabilities (PWD) in ordinary, permanent positions. A central premise of the project is that relatively few companies successfully achieve sustainable employment for this grou...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Debt problems, ill-health and labour market marginalisation

A central challenge for Norwegian society is the high and steadily increasing loan volume among Norwegian households. Authorities have expressed concern over the potential for widespread debt problems. A key goal of the welfare state is to protect citizens from the negative effects of poor health...

Awarded: NOK 10.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

A fair chance? How geography shapes life opportunities

The opportunity to move up the socioeconomic ladder, during one’s lifetime and in relation to one’s parents, has been recognized as a key matter for combating poverty and reducing inequality. This is the premise for the project, to which we add an increasingly relevant dimension by asking: How do...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Omstridte innsatsfaktorer i norsk økologisk landbruk: Betydning for oppfatninger og forbruk av økologisk mat.

The EU regulations for organic farming are regularly revised, among other things, to meet new challenges with regard to sustainability and the environment. In this context the use of so called contentious inputs within organic agriculture is questioned. The project Organic-PLUS financed by the EU...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BEDREHELSE-Bedre helse og livskvalitet

Effectiveness of existing policies for lifestyle interventions - Policy Evaluation Network (PEN) - OsloMet Food and Nutrition Policy (FNP)

The OsloMet Food and Nutrition Policy (OsloMet FNP) group, which represents the two OsloMet institutes Consumption Research Norway (SIFO) and Public Health Nutrition at the Department of Nursing and Health Promotion (PHN), participated in 2019-2022 in the European multi-disciplinary research netw...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Relinking the weak link. Building resilient digital households through interdisciplinary and multilevel exploration and intervention.

Many homes today are equipped with a wide variety of “smart” or connected technologies such as smart fridges, energy meters, robot vacuum cleaners, doorbells, and baby monitors. These technologies are sold to households with promises of better healthcare, convenience, comfort, leisure, security, ...

Awarded: NOK 13.6 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

PREVENTING SICK LEAVE AND MARGINALIZATION IN YOUNG ADULTS

Over 14 million young people in Europe aged 15–29 are outside both education and employment, often referred to as NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training). In Norway, this applies to about 11 percent of young people in the same age group. Being outside education and work at a young age in...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester

Creating integrated person-centred care in different settings

Norwegian and Danish municipalities are in the process of strengthening their health- and social care systems to encourage elderly people to live in their own homes for as long as possible. Their aim is a service apparatus characterized by integrated person-centred care. The Context project has e...

Awarded: NOK 13.8 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester

HIRE? A mixed-method examination of disability and employers inclusive working life practices

The main objective of the HIRE project is to contribute new knowledge on employers? attitudes and practices towards jobseekers with disabilities. The project includes four working packages (WPs). HIRE was carried out in close collaboration with partners from Sweden and the US, representatives fro...

Awarded: NOK 13.1 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester

Sites of Access. Entry opportunities into employment for people with disabilities

People with disabilities are often seen as somehow "unfit" for employment. Conversely, researchers, policymakers and stakeholders often view the labor market as very excluding vis-a-vis people with disabilities. While these insights are important, this project takes at its starting point that man...

Awarded: NOK 9.4 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Enhancing local wool value chains in Norway

From its initiation in 2015 to the end in 2019, KRUS had two goals: to improve the market for and the value of Norwegian wool, and survey the opportunities for local production in a move towards a goal of sustainability in the fashion sector. On a larger scale, KRUS has looked at how we can reest...

Awarded: NOK 20.9 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SAMRISK-2-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiki

Risk management strategies when households face collapsing electricity and digital infrastructure

This project starts from three premises: (i) that households have become critically dependent on electricity and ICT, (ii) that authorities have given insufficient attention to this vulnerability; and (iii) that local populations represent a significant, but under rated resource for the handling...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove