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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.

FoodSMaCK - Spektroskopi, Modellering & Forbrukerkunnskap

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Senior Research Scientist

A main goal for the Norwegian food industry is to produce sustainable and healthy foods with consumer appeal. FoodSMaCK is an interdisciplinary research program that has addressed these needs by means of three main strategies:
1) We have established knowledge on how sensory attributes of healthy foods can be modified to increase acceptance while guiding consumers towards healthier options. Reformulation of food texture has been shown to be an important measure against overeating. We have selected the most relevant sensory methods to understand texture-based food preferences and satiety and focused on unveiling consumers individual differences in food intake and liking. We have studied sensory bitterness and concentrated on characterisation of caffeine and quinine, relevant for its relation to healthy food consumption, e.g. brassica vegetables. We have investigated how creative focus groups can be used in consumer driven product development; with focus on children and elderly and on plant-based foods. An online set-up for idea generation of healthy foods with children was also tested. 
We have explored indirect instrumental methods (eye tracking and face reading) to assess attitudes and preferences in preadolescents, as well as consumers unconscious attitudes towards health (sugar and sweeteners) and sustainability (foods and waste). Further, we have explored sensory sensitivity in children over time to follow up and understand their preference development. We have completed studies with elderly and identified sensory drivers of preferences for more nutritive choices. 
2) We have developed novel spectroscopic methods for monitoring, control and understanding of industrial food processes and biochemical processes. One example is Raman spectroscopy to measure individual sugars in intact apples. The main sugars can be well predicted, and the method is interesting for quality sorting and monitoring ripeness of apples in field. FTIR can be used for characterisation of subtle chemical differences in foods, however: We have seen how the co-variation in fatty acids in muscle can give too optimistic results with FTIR. This can be handled by using well designed oil mixtures to make reliable calibrations for individual fatty acids. 
We have developed spectroscopic methods closer to industrial use. Raman spectroscopy has been developed for new applications: Quantification of fat and water holding capacity in pork meat, fatty acid features in meat, collagen in meat, and bone fragments in food by-products. For the latter application, we have studied how Raman can be used on a conveyor belt to provide in-line information. FTIR has been developed to follow protein breakdown in enzymatic protein hydrolysis of poultry by-products. FTIR can in this way give relevant information on the effect of raw material variation and process settings on the final hydrolysates. Raw material variation, as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR), can also be linked to the chemistry and sensory properties of the resulting protein hydrolysate. In-line NIR methods for estimation of dry matter in both whole potatoes and cheese blocks have been developed and we have studied how this approach can provide reliable results in an industrial setting.
3) We have developed methods for modelling of large and complex data, which is crucial for both food research and industry. A plethora of data analytical methods exist, and an important part of our research has been to unify and understand the properties of existing and new methods. This has resulted in several books and book chapters, as well as scientific overview and method comparison papers. In June 2019 we arranged an international conference on data analysis (SSC16), with 120 participants from all continents. 
We have developed a comprehensive toolbox for co-modelling of several data blocks (multi block analysis), including methods such as SO-PLS and GCA-PCA. These methods have been applied to sensory & consumer, -omics, spectroscopic and process data. We have also developed methods for analysing effects of experimental factors on multivariate outcomes, mostly applied on omics data (genetics, proteomics, and microbiota). These developments include visualization and significance testing in multivariate ANOVA, variable ranking, and analysis of post-intervention time trajectories. Within process modelling, we have developed strategies for analysing process data from full-scale cheese production in relation to end-product quality, both by using existing process data and new inline spectroscopy. We have also developed specific methods for modelling spectroscopic data, such as correcting for reabsorption in fluorescence spectroscopy and sample-dependent error estimates in calibration.

A main goal for the Norwegian food industry is profitable production of sustainable and healthy foods with consumer appeal. FoodSMaCK is an interdisciplinary research program that will address these needs by means of three main strategies: 1) We will establish research based knowledge about how sensory attributes of healthy foods can be modified to increase palatability and acceptance of such products. We will also investigate and establish approaches of how to guide the consumer to choose healthy foods over less healthy options. Such guidance requires new knowledge on which factors that drive eating experiences, for example information about consumers sensory sensitivity, their psychological traits and their attitudes to food. 2) We will develop novel rapid and non-destructive spectroscopic methods for automatic monitoring and control of food processes. These enabling techniques, based on typically near-infrared, Raman, fluorescence and FT-IR spectroscopy, will be important tools for the food industry to achieve cost-effective processing with optimal utilization of raw materials, stable end quality and a minimum of food loss. This technology also allows automatic sorting of raw materials into main streams and co-streams for optimal processing and value adding. A main challenge is that foods are complex and heterogeneous. 3) We will develop methods for data analysis and modelling based on multivariate statistics. The analysis of large and complex data is challenging but also crucial for most fields of food research as well as for analysis of industrial process data. Modern technology produce huge amounts of data, and the utilization of these depends heavily on the ability to extract relevant information that is interpretable and statistically sound. The research program will develop analytical methods and knowledge that will increase value creation and progress in the Norwegian food industry. A long term synergy with the aquaculture & fisheries sector is expected.

FoodSMaCK - Spectroscopy, Modelling & Consumer Knowledge

In 1984, the Research Councils of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden (Iceland joined later) formed the Nordic Optical Telescope Scientific Association (NOTSA) with the purpose of building a medium-size optical and near infrared telescope for the astronomical communities in the respective countries. The telescope, a 2.56 m Ritchey-Chrétien telescope with active optics, was inaugurated in 1989 at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands. Regular observations started in 1990. The telescope has been shown to have outstanding optical quality and the site is one of the world's best, giving a very high fraction of the time high angular resolution. 

In 2020, NOTSA has been replaced by a new organisational structure, where the NOT is owned jointly by the universities of Aarhus (Denmark) and Turku (Finland). Other institutions can join as partners, through partner agreements. Presently, the Universities of Iceland and Stockholm, as well as the University of Oslo, on behalf of the Norwegian astronomy community, have signed partner agreements.

The University of Oslo has entered into a partner agreement with NOT, funded by the Research Council of Norway and an own contribution, for the period January 2020 - December 2023, securing Norwegian astronomers about 10% of the nights available to the partners, but allocated on a competitive basis. The present proposal is for funding that will make it possible to continue the partner agreement for the period January 2024 - December 2028.

It is impossible today to forecast in detail the science which will be done in the period 2024-2028, but important research, to a large extent in combination with the use of other ground and space based facilities, are expected over the whole range of astronomy and astrophysics, from small objects in the solar system (including "guests" from interstellar space) through exoplanets, the interstellar medium, to the environments of galaxies.

Norwegian partnership in the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) er en internasjonal forskningsinfrastruktur for åpen data, finansiert av deltagerland. Den lar hvem som helst, hvor som helst, få tilgang til primærdata om alle typer liv på jorden, delt via den globale portalen www.gbif.org og gjennom nasjonale og tematiske portaler. GBIF opererer gjennom et nettverk av deltakernoder som koordinerer informasjon om biologisk mangfold for deltakerland og organisasjoner. Dataene publiseres av mange institusjoner fra hele verden med full støtte for FAIRs åpne dataprinsipper (finnbar, tilgjengelig, interoperabel, og gjenbrukbar). Ved å oppmuntre og hjelpe institusjoner til å publisere data i henhold til vanlige standarder, muliggjør GBIF forskning som tidligere ikke kunne utføres og informerer om bedre beslutninger om bevaring og bærekraftig bruk av planetens biologiske ressurser.

GBIF ble etablert i mars 2001, etter anbefaling fra OECD Mega-science Forum i 1999. Norge ble stemmeberettiget medlem i april 2004. Den norske deltakernoden, GBIF Norge (www.gbif.no), ble etablert i 2015. Universitetet i Oslo, Naturhistorisk museum (UiO NHMO) er vertskap for GBIF Norge i nært samarbeid og koordinering med Artsdatabanken (NBIC, Artsdatabanken.no), Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU), Norsk institutt for naturforskning (NINA), UiT Norges arktiske universitet (UiT), og Universitetet i Bergen (UiB). GBIF Norges oppgave er å gjøre informasjon fra norske samlinger og andre kilder tilgjengelig for det internasjonale GBIF-nettverket og å koordinere GBIF-relaterte aktiviteter i Norge. GBIF Norge bidrar i undervisningen ved Naturhistorisk museum ved Universitetet i Oslo med fokus på tilgang til og bruk av artsdata. Vi jobber aktivt med å forbedre kvaliteten på datasettene publisert i GBIF fra Norge. GBIF Norge tilbyr en plattform for implementering av permanente og resolverbare identifikatorer for norske datasett.

Totalt fasiliterer GBIF Norge (i november 2023) publisering av 49,2 millioner poster som dekker 57 392 arter fra 426 datasett ved mer enn 38 norske institusjoner til GBIF-nettverket. Flere enn 204 vitenskapelige artikler med fagfelleevaluering siterer artsdata fra Norge formidlet via GBIF. Den globale GBIF-portalen inkluderer (i november 2023) 2,6 milliarder dataposter fra 90 990 datasett ved mer enn 2 141 datapubliserende institusjoner over hele verden. Flere enn 9 508 vitenskapelige artikler med fagfelleevaluering siterer artsdata formidlet via GBIF.

GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

GBIF operates through a network of Nodes which coordinates the biodiversity information facilitation of participant countries and organizations, collaborating with each other and the Secretariat to share skills, experiences, and technical capacity. The data are published by many institutions from around the world and include scientific names data, primary distribution and monitoring data on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes. By encouraging and helping institutions to publish data according to common standards, GBIF enables research that could previously not be performed and informs better decisions to conserve and sustainably use the biological resources of the planet.

Strategic priorities

1. Empower global network
Ensure that governments, researchers, and users are equipped and supported to share, improve and use data through the GBIF network, regardless of geography, language, or institutional affiliation.

2. Enhance biodiversity information infrastructure
Provide leadership, expertise, and tools to support the integration of all biodiversity information as an interconnected digital knowledgebase.

3. Fill data gaps
Prioritize and promote mobilization of new data resources which combine with existing resources to maximize the coverage, completeness, and resolution of GBIF data, particularly with respect to taxonomy, geography, and time.

4. Improve data quality
Ensure that all data within the GBIF network are of the highest possible quality and associated with clear indicators enabling users to assess their origin, relevance, and usefulness for any application.

5. Deliver relevant data
Ensure that GBIF delivers data in the form and completeness required to meet the highest-priority needs of science and, through science, society.

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ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Norwegian partnership in the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

MILUTARENA-Formidlings- og koordineringstiltak knyttet for miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Norwegian node 2021-2025

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo