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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.

Locating Intergenerational Ties, rematriating late-19th-century unpublished photographs of Sámi Women and Children

Employing a decolonial approach inspired by critical museology and Indigenous studies, LIT aims to initiate a visual restitution/rematriation process fostering attention to Sámi people’s experiences during colonial encounters, and to illuminate individual life-stories of women and children photographed by Italian anthropologists Mantegazza and Sommier between 1879 and 1886. It wishes to generate dialogical knowledge of unpublished visual/written materials, enabling Sámi communities of interest to gain access to these scholars’ photographs. In complex socio-historical Indigenous/settler contexts such as Sápmi (the Sámi homeland), Sámi people’s control over their own heritage has proved essential to processes of cultural and ethnopolitical self-determination. Part of the Sámi visual heritage consists of photographs taken - often through mild violence and coercion - by academics engaged in physical anthropological practices involving Sámi individuals of all ages and genders. The resulting academic and divulgative publications circulated in Europe for decades, shaping and reinforcing stereotypes of Sámi peoples and cultures. Photos taken in colonial encounters by late-19th/early-20th century scholars to visualize Sámi people’s supposed biological-cultural inferiority (until a few decades ago inaccessible to the Sámi) have become important means of decolonization and empowerment through art and activism. The visual restitution of such photographs is of the utmost importance not only from a cultural heritage perspective but is also considered by Sámi institutions and individuals as an urgent necessity. LIT proposes an innovative approach based on the co-construction of knowledge and with a gender dimension. I shall reconstruct life stories of women and children photographed by Italian ethnologists, locating their descendants and returning their photographs to their communities. LIT would benefit my career, making me a leading researcher in Sami Studies and museology.

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.

Smart and Sustainable Host UniverCities: leveraging city-university interactions to further the twin green and digital transition

SUNSET aims to develop innovative research and training capacity around city-university interactions driving the EU’s green and digital transition. This twin transition is a defining element of the current EU policy agenda towards achieving climate neutrality and sustainable growth. The European Commission considers cities to be frontrunners in this transition agenda, but their transformational capacity and resilience crucially depends on the presence of agile and high-performing urban innovation ecosystems. SUNSET brings together (1) prominent researchers working in diverse geographical and disciplinary settings at leading universities (N=6) with (2) partners (N=16) from city governments (often participating in the Cities Mission to achieve climate neutrality by 2030), innovation companies, research institutes and civil society organizations to analyze and foster the performance of these urban innovation ecosystems: drawing on a purposeful range of interdisciplinary, international, and intersectoral exchanges, the Doctoral Network will investigate whether and how universities can successfully become key drivers of the twin transition in cities via their role as innovation partners, the implementation of campus living labs, and as architects of decision-making in governance ecosystems. Through a tailored combination of network-wide training events and academic and non-academic secondments, the SUNSET Doctoral Network will train a new generation of researchers to become future urban innovation ecosystem leaders in the pursuit of the twin green and digital transition. The findings will lead to practical guidelines regarding the design and implementation of living labs for university and city management, tailored strategies to foster more inclusive and diverse urban ecosystems, and diverse forms of scientific outreach and dissemination.

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.


EXPRESS 2 SPECIFY AND PROTECT THE EU SOCIAL CONTRACT (EXPRESS2)

EXPRESS2 is a project that addresses from a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and cross-sectional perspective, the growing demand for a new, more democratic, inclusive, and sustainable social contract in the EU. To achieve this, the project will work to create a more appealing and legitimate EU social contract draft that will be submitted to inhabitants, Member States and EU institutions that will have the possibility to participate and decide upon the conditions, rights, and obligations to be binding. The goal is to strengthen the EU agreement of association by promoting social dialogue, civic engagement, and integration. An express draft shall be achieved by means of policy dialogue, campaign implementation, collaborative workshops, advocacy planning, and innovative offline and online formats and tools to create spaces for dialogue. To this end, EXPRESS2 will involve EU policymakers and institutions throughout the project to obtain a more appealing and legitimate EU social contract draft. 
The project will also focus on identifying and analyzing disruptive elements of the social contract, such as insecurity, populism, climate change, mistrust in institutions, gender discrimination, digitalisation and pandemics. The analysis of these stressors includes both individualised and cross-sectional approaches to cover the plausible relation of multiple disruptors, their concatenation or the “trigger” effect of a disruptive phenomenon to another. By understanding these disruptive elements and their effects on the social contract, the project will propose concrete measures to ironclad the social contract and it will provide relevant information to protect it from actual and potential disruptions thus we conceive social contracts as incomplete theorised agreements and living documents. In addition to academic, policy, and socio-economic outcomes, EXPRESS2 will propose recommendations to strengthen the social contract's resilience and capacity for further development.


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.

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.

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1. Etablere forsknings- og utviklingsprosjekter som sikrer og styrker de regionale bedriftenes markedsposisjon og konkurranseevne innen de markedene hvor de er ledende.
2. Etablere forsknings- og utviklingsprosjekter for teknologioverføring til nye markeder for å styrke de regionale bedriftenes robusthet og verdiskapning.

GCE NODE strategien har 8 delmål hvor reisen til Houston er godt forankret i flere av disse, blant andre: delmål 1) Økt bærekraft, delmål 2) Ny teknologi for å redusere drivhusgassene, delmål 3) FoUI med ledende nasjonale- og internasjonale forskningsmiljøer, og delmål 4) Kompetanse bygging.

For å kunne oppfylle kravene nedfelt i Parisavtalen må takten på den energitransisjonen økes betydelig. Det haster å utvikle ny teknologi som reduserer klimagasser, øker energieffektivisering og tar i bruk nye fornybare energikilder. Houston er kjent som energiens hovedstad og er fastbestemt på å lede den energitransisjonen.

GCE NODE har tidligere samarbeidet tett med University of Rice og University of Texas, Austin innen digitalisering og har som mål å utvide samarbeidet innen lavutslipps teknologi og fornybarenergi løsninger. Delegasjonsreise er lagt opp til flere gode møteplasser for å skape kontakt, treffer sentrale aktører og drøfte mulige samarbeidsprosjekter.

Delegasjonen består av representanter fra næringsliv, akademia, forskningsinstitusjoner, politisk ledelse, offentlig sektor og næringslivsorganisasjoner. Selve delegasjonen har en stor synergieffekt hvor aktørene jobber tett for å skape samarbeids muligheter.

Vedlegg: Programmer til tidligere NorTex Data Science Workshops arrangert i 2018 og 2019

Delegasjonsreise Houston 2022: Den energitransisjonen - samarbeid og samhandling for bærekraftige energiløsninger

Alkoholmisbruk og høy fettinntak medfører et antall helseproblemer inkludert leversykdom (alkoholindusert leversykdom, ALD; non-alkoholisk leversykdom, NALD). Metioninmetabolismen er forstyrret i ALD/NALD, og både alkohol og mye fett øker behovet for betain. Leveren kan skaffe seg betain enten ved å absorbere betain fra maten (ved hjelp av transportør-proteiner) eller ved å omdanne kolin til betain (ved hjelp av kolindehydrogenase, CHDH). På tross av at tilførsel av betain via kosten motvirker ALD/NALD, har de ansvarlige transportører for betain ikke blitt identifisert. Et overordnet mål for dette prosjektet er å finne ut hvor viktig den såkalte "betain-GABA transportøren (BGT1; slc6a12) er for å beskytte leveren mot de skadelige effektene av etanol og høyt fettinntak. For å nå dette målet vil vi først bestemme den cellulære distribusjon av BGT1 i leveren. Deretter vil vi måle BGT1's andel av den totale opptaksaktivitet for kolin og betain for å kunne avgjøre om og i hvilken grad andre transportører bidrar til opptaket av betain. Parallelt med dette vil vi studere konsekvensene av BGT1/CHDH-mangel på metabolismen av kolin, betain, cystein og metionin. Vi vil også fore normalmus og mus som mangler BGT1 eller CHDH eller begge med fettrik mat for å se om disse musene er mer sårbare enn normalmus. Basert på våre erfaringer med musene, antar vi at mennesker med defekt betainopptak vil kunne leve normale liv og få barn, men de vil muligens tåle alkohol dårlig. Dette kan kanskje være en av forklaringene på hvorfor noen mennesker får leverskade av alkohol i relativt ung alder mens andre lignende livstil ikke utvikler alvorlig leversykdom. Hvis defekt betainopptak medfører redusert beskyttelse, vil det være mulig å utvikle tester for å identifisere personer med høy risiko for leversykdom.

Alcohol abuse causes numerous health problems. One of these is alcoholic liver disease (ALD), which partly results from perturbations of hepatocyte methionine metabolism: Ethanol inhibits the methionine synthase pathway, increasing the demand for betaine. Hepatic betaine is supplied via the diet or by conversion of choline to betaine. Ethanol inhibits the latter. Dietary betaine supplements attenuate ALD, but this requires that the hepatocyte can absorb the supplied betaine from the blood. The hepatic uptake is catalyzed by transporter proteins of which the betaine-GABA transporter (BGT1) is believed to be the responsible transporter. We have created BGT1 deficient mice, observed that these mice survive, and shown BGT1 to be predominantly a liver protein. Importantly, we have just found (unpublished) that under non-challenging conditions BGT1-deficient mice have a mild reduction in hepatic choline. Compensatory increased production of betaine from choline may explain how these mice avoid liver disease, but they may be vulnerable to increases in betaine demand induced by ethanol and high fat diets. If the mice models reflect human status, it is important to identify subjects with defective betaine uptake as these may be at particular risk of developing ALD. We propose to: 1. Test whether BGT1 expression is restricted to hepatocytes (WP#1). 2. Determine the contribution of BGT1 to the total betaine transport (WP#2), and test whether the SIT1, OCTN2 and OAT9 transporters contribute to the betaine uptake. 3. Test if defect betaine uptake increases choline requirements for choline using BGT1/choline dehydrogenase-double knockouts (WP#3&4). 4. Examine if BGT1 deficiency increases ethanol or high fat hepatotoxicity (WP#4). 5. Identify putative gender and mouse strain differences in choline and methionine pathways (WP#5). This project will determine the importance of betaine and possibly contribute to new strategies for prevention and treatment of ALD in humans.

The GABA-betaine transporter (BGT1): protection against alcoholic liver disease

The proposed project is a system-biology approach to transport across brain plasma membranes focusing on neurotransmitter inactivation and water transport. The primary aim is to prepare the ground for a large scale approach to understand what all the hund reds of transporter and ion channels do together. In this area, as in many other areas of research, the seemingly exponential growth of the complexity of research (caused by extensive collaborative networks, new methodology, new types of instruments, type s or combinations of genetic alterations of organism, legal regulations and intellectual property rights) threaten to overwhelm our ability to manage a huge undertaking. The project will (1) produce new model systems (transgenic lines), (2) deliver new qu antitative information on the distribution of some transporters, (3) serve as a testing site for the electronic laboratory management and notebook systems currently being developed by Science Linker AS, and (4) couple the laboratory management system (pri marily for internal use) to an online and generally available data system for storage, retrieval, an analyses of related image data and metadata. The proposal takes an interdisciplinary approach, by bringing together research teams with different yet comp lementary areas of expertise (genetics, brain molecular biology and anatomy, mathematics, and computing sciences), and 2) an intersectorial approach, by including partners from both the Academic sector as well as a start-up company, to establish a new hig h-level research platform.

Understanding the System of Neurotransporters

Prevention and cure of neurological diseases are hampered by a lack of knowledge of
the underlying pathogenetic mechanisms which involve a complex system of
transporter proteins. The primary objective of this proposal is to uncover how
transporters limit activation of brain neurotransmitter receptors. To achieve this, it is
not sufficient to generate qualitative data on transporter and receptor localizations. It
is necessary to determine the numbers of the various protein molecules at different
locations within and around synapses. Then this information must be analyzed using
super computer simulation of neurotransmitter diffusion in dynamic 3-D models of
cubes of brain tissue. The models must take into account protein densities,
localizations, affinities , and other relevant properties like ion channel conductances
and associated water transport. We will begin the development of these advanced models, and we will also provide the quantitative data (molecules per square micrometer membrane) 
needed to mode l the roles of all the transporter proteins with affinity for 
glutamate and GABA. One transgenic mouse line will be produced to address an important questions related to the model: the functional importance of glutamate transporter EAAT2 in synaptic
term inals. This project combines expertise in computer simulation, brain
ultrastructure, membrane protein purification, molecular biology, water transport and
electrophysiology in order to achieve the ambitious goal.

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FRIMED2-FRIPRO forskerprosjekt, medisin og helse

The GABA-betaine transporter (BGT1): protection against alcoholic liver disease

Tildelt: kr 9,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2022

Sted: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Understanding the System of Neurotransporters

Tildelt: kr 5,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Dynamic 3-D modelling of the synaptic environment: The roles of transporters in controlling receptor activation and water transport

Tildelt: kr 2,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2009

Sted: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Toppforskning - Inaktivering av glutamat

Tildelt: kr 4,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2007

Sted: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Transgenic models in neuroscience: Uncovering the secrets of the hippocampal formation

Tildelt: kr 8,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2009

Sted: Oslo

BIOFYS-Fysiologiske og anatomiske fag

Sabbatical/Forskningstermin: Crystallization of a glutamate transporter

Tildelt: kr 0,14 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2005

Sted: Oslo