Hendelser http://www.nordforsk.org daily 1 2010-10-08T11:37:28Z Nordic Russian and Eastern European Studies Conference http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/nordic-russian-and-eastern-european-studies-conference Final conference of the Nordic CERES network: Intentions, Interactions and Paradoxes in Post-Socialist Space. The Nordic CERES network organises its final conference in Helsinki in 24-25 May 2013. Since 2010, the CERES network has funded several scientific events in the Nordic Countries. More than 200 researchers have participated in the activities and approached the Russian and Eastern European Studies from various angles.

The aim of the network – to strengthen the Nordic approach to the Russian and Eastern European studies – is also the goal in the final conference. This conference discusses some of the questions Nordic REES researchers are currently dealing with. The presentations cover a wide range of disciplines in social sciences, humanities and economics.

Themes

  • Mainstream vs. Marginality
  • Paradoxes and Clashes of Contemporary Society
  • Reworking the Communist Past, (N)ostalgia
  • Modernisation Processes
  • Borderlines and Links Between Fringe and Core
  • Energy, Environment and Various Dimensions of Security
  • Trust and Mistrust
  • Entrepreneurship and Consumption
  • Reshaping of Class Structure

Keynote Speakers

  • Li Bennich-Björkman, Johan Skytte Professor in Political Science and Eloquence, University of Uppsala, Sweden
  • Rustem Nureev, Professor of Economics, National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
  • Olga Shevchenko, Associate Professor of Sociology, Williams College, USA

Sponsors

NordForsk is the main financial sponsor of the conference. The conference is also financed by the Finnish Doctoral Programme for Russian and East European Studies, the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies “Choices of Russian Modernisation” and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies.



]]> No publisher Lisa H. Ekli 2013-05-07T11:13:10Z Hendelse Forskerkurs: Educational Sciences http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/educational-sciences Course objective and content

Learning outcome

The course will provide the participants with the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge

  • Wide knowledge of the field of Educational Sciences, its constructions and developments.

Skills

  • To relate the doctoral project to the field of Educational sciences
  • To handle complex academic issues, and critically analyse research within the field.

General competence

  • To identify and reflect upon ethical issues relating to research in Educational Sciences.

Contents

While the term Educational Sciences is well-established in English, the corresponding Norwegian term (Utdanningsvitenskap) is fairly new. The course will present different approaches to the construction of the Educational sciences field. The content of the course is organised into three main topics: (i) The Educational sciences field; a European perspective, (ii) Nordic perspectives on Educational sciences, (iii) Research status and challenges.

Coursework requirement

As a seminar style course with discussions of reading material and student presentations, active participation is required.

Method of work

The course runs over two days. Different forms of study include lectures, discussions and student presentations. Whenever there are non-Scandinavian speakers present, working language will be English. Whenever only Scandinavian speakers are assembled, Norwegian/Scandinavian may apply.

Credits: 3 ECTS

Deadline for applications: 25 May

]]> No publisher Lisa H. Ekli 2013-05-06T06:50:00Z Hendelse Education for tomorrow: Kick off-conference http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/education-for-tomorrow-kick-off-conference NordForsk's thematic programme Education for Tomorrow was initiated by the Nordic ministers for education, and is co-financed by the national research councils in all Nordic countries. The programme has financed six research projects and one Nordic Centre of Excellence (NCoE).

This kick-off conference is held at NordForsk and will commence Monday 17 June with lunch and registration from 12-13 CET and conclude with a lunch on Tuesday 18 June. The kick-off conference offers good opportunities for networking and planning of joint activities. Dinner will be held onboard the Polar vessel FRAM inside the Fram Museum on Monday evening 17 June.

Read the full programme here

Participation by invitation, registration by 10 June 2013. If you have questions regarding the conference, please contact Lotta Strandberg lotta.strandberg@nordforsk.org

]]> No publisher Lisa H. Ekli 2013-04-30T10:18:05Z Hendelse Nordic e-Infrastructure conference http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/nordic-e-infrastructure-conference The first Nordic e-Infrastructure conference takes place in Trondheim, Norway. It marks the 10-year anniversary of Nordic collaboration in computing and storage services for science. The aim of the conference is to couple Nordic user communities with the skill base that exists within the national e-Infrastructure organizations, to develop ideas, and to elicit the opportunities for cost-efficient common solutions and joint e-Infrastructure services. The First Nordic e-Infrastructure Conference will be hosted by Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration, UNINETT Sigma and NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in collaboration with NORDUnet, Danish e-Infrastructure Collaboration (DeiC), CSC – IT Center for Science (Finland), Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing and the University of Iceland.

]]> No publisher Marius Hagen 2013-03-18T10:08:19Z Hendelse Final Symposium Programme on Food, Nutrition and Health http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/final-symposium-programme-on-food-nutrition-and-health The three Nordic Centres of Excellence within the programme on Food, Nutrition and Health will be organising a final symposium 14-15 March 2013 in Copenhagen to summarise the research carried out in the period from 2007 to 2012. The symposium is open to all parties interested in this field. Read more here

 

Register for the event here!

]]> No publisher Marius Hagen 2012-12-19T09:41:15Z Hendelse Nordic Trial Alliance: Stakeholder workshop http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/nordic-trial-alliance-stakeholder-workshop The Nordic Trial Alliance aims to promote Nordic cooperation on clinical multi-centre trials. Nordic Trial Alliance (NTA) will be built on established national networks for clinical research, has an open access approach, and will build a strong collaboration with national and Nordic stakeholders
The workshop aims to:
• Present background and vision of the Nordic Trial Alliance (NTA)
• Identify stakeholder needs and establish a good stakeholder involvement already in the early phase  of NTA
• Discuss how to ensure a continued stakeholder dialogue

]]> No publisher Marius Hagen 2012-12-07T09:35:51Z Hendelse Gender Balance in Research in the Nordic Countries http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/gender-balance-in-research-in-the-nordic-countries Expert seminar on gender balance in research in the Nordic countries. The seminar is organized in cooperation with the Nordic Council of Ministers, NordForsk, the Research Council of Norway and the Committee for Gender Balance in Research. Click here to see the full programme.

Click here to see the invitation.

]]> No publisher Marius Hagen 2012-11-14T15:15:11Z Hendelse Nordic Grand Challenge Research Programme on eScience in Health and Social Preconditions for Health http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/nordic-grand-challenge-research-programme-on-escience-in-health-and-social-preconditions-for-health This event is organised as part of the planning of the NeGI research programme on eScience in Health and Social Preconditions for Health. The Workshop
This event is organised as part of the planning of the NeGI research programme on eScience in
Health and Social Preconditions for Health. Main goals are:
  •  Discuss potential directions for the Nordic Programme and provide input to the process of setting up the more detailed call text. The plan is that the NeGI Steering Committee will decide on the call text at their meeting November 30 2012.
  •  Provide a forum where researchers from the different fields can meet and initiate further discussions on future collaboration.
Participation is limited to 40 individuals.

 

For participation – Contact NeGI October 31 by the latest

Please send an e-mail to Erlendur.Helgason@nordforsk.org if you are interested to participate. Please include a very short description (one-two sentences) on your research area and your research team. Based on these e-mails a number of participants will be invited to register. The eScience initiative will strive for broad representation regarding research areas, as well as national distribution. Thus each accepted activity/group will have a limited number of participants (preliminary. 2 each).

The eScience initiative will fund food (and also if needed) lodging at Park Inn Hotel, but participants cover their own travel costs.

Background

The Nordic countries together possess unique sources of information from national registries, health surveys and biobanks. Well-developed population and health data registers covering the whole population have been in operation for decades. Combining these sources across national boundaries by use of modern eScience tools will provide unique opportunities for research exploitation also in combination with biobanks and modern technology for molecular analysis.

The Nordic eScience Globalisation Initiative has allocated approximately 40 MNOK to set up 1-2 Nordic Centres of Excellence performing research on methods and tools for advanced data integration, data analysis, modelling and simulation for research related to health and social preconditions for health, with a special focus on exploiting register, bio-bank and molecular data in the Nordic countries.  A main feature of the supported eScience research efforts is that they should be founded on tight interaction between topical eScience research and research on more generic eScience tools and methods, including groups from both the topical research fields and computer science/scientific computing/applied mathematics/statistics.

The research should involve development of new theories, models, methods, algorithms and/or software addressing major problems in the topical fields with the goal of producing new research results and research possibilities in the topical fields within and after the project period.

]]> No publisher Marius Hagen 2012-10-15T09:10:00Z Hendelse Workshop on Bibliometrics for the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/workshop-on-bibliometrics-for-the-social-sciences-and-humanities-ssh The workshop is a follow up of the NordForsk’s former Noria-net project in bibliometrics which raised the idea of advancing bibliometric studies of SSH. The aim of the workshop is to present recent research on the topic and bring together scholars, experts, and decision-makers interested in bibliometrics in SSH. The keynote speaker of the workshop is professor Diana Hicks from the School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech, U.S. The workshop program is scheduled for 12 additional presentations.

Participation in the workshop is free. NordForsk sponsors travels and accommodation for the speakers. Other participants of the workshop have to arrange and sponsor the travel and accommodation by themselves.

]]> No publisher Marius Hagen 2012-09-24T06:05:18Z Hendelse Forskningsdagene: Sunn skolemat, bedre skole? http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/forskningsdagene-sunn-skolemat-bedre-skole Hva kan Norge lære av våre nordiske naboers skolemat? Gir sunn skolemat en bedre skole? Bør skolematen være et gratis varmt måltid som i Sverige og Finland? Med foreldrebetaling som på Island? Eller er matpakken det beste alternativet? Gratis skolemat har vært diskutert i Norge i flere år, men matpakken er fortsatt mest vanlig. Nordisk ministerråd inviterer til en debatt der de ernæringsmessige perspektivene ved skolemat diskuteres i lys av nordiske erfaringer.

Seminaret er et samarbeid mellom NordForsk, Norden i Fokus, Nordic Innovation og Skolematens venner.

]]> No publisher Marius Hagen 2012-09-14T06:53:50Z Hendelse Topforskningsinitiativets årskonference 2012 http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/topforskningsinitiativets-arskonference-2012 Topforskningsinitiativet indenfor klima, energi og miljø er nu i sit fjerde år, og årskonferencen 2012 bygger videre på de gode erfaringer med at dele viden og resultater. I år vil der være tale om en konference med start den 29. okt. 2012 kl. 15:30 og som afsluttes med lunch 30. okt. Dagene vil vise Topforskningsinitiativet i en kontekst om hvordan delprogrammerne kan bidrage til grøn vækst.

 

  • Hvordan kan nordisk samarbejde omkring klima, miljø og energispørgsmål bidrage til økonomisk vækst i fremtiden?
  • Hvilken betydning kan Topforskningsinitiativet og dets resultater have for grøn vækst i de nordiske lande og det fremtidige nordiske samarbejde?

 

De to halve dage bygges op med hvert deres fokus inden for rammerne

 

  • Dag 1: Policy-dag
    Denne dag fokuserer på en overordnet debat om Topforskningsinitiativets forventede resultater og deres indvirkning på nordisk policy udvikling inden for klima, energi og miljø. Dagen forventes at have deltagelse af forskere, politikere og erhvervslivet. Der lægges op til en afsluttende paneldebat for dagen med talerne.

  • Dag 2: TFI-programmenes dag med resultatformidling
    Dag to har fokus på de konkrete aktiviteter i Topforskningsinitiativets forskellige delprogram, hvor der vil blive fokuseret på opnåede og forventede resultater. Der vil være deltagelse af forskningslederne for de 6 delprogrammer.

Last ned programmet her!

]]> No publisher Marius Hagen 2012-06-29T08:00:00Z Hendelse 10th Nordic Nutrition Conference http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/10th-nordic-nutrition-conference The goal of the 10th Nordic Nutrition Conference is to stay up-to-date on emerging trends and provide a forum for discussion on topics related to nutrition and health among nutritionists and other professionals working in the field.  

The focus will be on current research on food, nutrition and health in the Nordic countries as well as in a global context.
The scientific program will include invited lectures as well as free communications. The official language of the conference is English.
Mrs Vigdis Finnbogadottir former President of Iceland and patroness of the 10th Nordic Nutrition Conference will formally open the programme of the 10th Nordic Nutrition Conference on the morning of June 4th. Nordic Council of Ministers supports this conference.

The focus will be on current research on food, nutrition and health in the Nordic countries as well as in a global context.The scientific program will include invited lectures as well as free communications. The official language of the conference is English.Mrs Vigdis Finnbogadottir former President of Iceland and patroness of the 10th Nordic Nutrition Conference will formally open the programme of the 10th Nordic Nutrition Conference on the morning of June 4th. Nordic Council of Ministers supports this conference.

]]> No publisher Marius Hagen 2012-05-29T10:32:06Z Hendelse Climate-Change Effects Summer School http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/climate-change-effects-summer-school In this training course, Nordic research groups leading within one or more of the relevant fields offer a multidisciplinary research course aiming to stimulate participating students to take a broader view on climate-change effects research.  

Research into climate-change effects on terrestrial ecosystems is a truly multidisciplinary research field, involving predictive modelling, correlative ecological approaches such as gradient studies and biogeography and palaeoecology, and field and laboratory experiments. Each of these research approaches is already making important contributions to our understanding of climate-change effects, but they have different strengths and weaknesses, and important steps forward can be made by closer multidisciplinary collaboration.

In this training course, Nordic research groups leading within one or more of the relevant fields offer a multidisciplinary research course aiming to stimulate participating students to take a broader view on climate-change effects research. This will be achieved through a series of seminars given by internationally leading experts in the different fields, group discussions exploring how multi- and inter-disciplinarity can contribute to address important themes in climate-change research, a field trip to the ITEX site at Finse, and practical training in statistical analyses using the R language.

 

The school is a unique opportunity to explore this important issue with like-minded post-graduate students and young scientists, mostly from the Nordic countries.

 

See summer school web page for more information.

]]> No publisher Marius Hagen 2012-04-24T08:24:30Z Hendelse ESOF 2012 (Euroscience Open Forum) http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/esof-2012-euroscience-open-forum The Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) is Europe’s largest, general science meeting and is held in a leading Europe city every two years The first meeting was held in Stockholm in 2004, followed by Munich (2006), Barcelona (2008) and Turin (2010). Dublin was awarded the honour of hosting ESOF in 2012, following an open competition. Copenhagen will host then event in 2014. ESOF is an interdisciplinary, pan-European meeting, held under the auspices of Euroscience, which aims to:

  • Showcase the latest advances in science and technology;
  • Promote a dialogue on the role of science and technology in society and public policy;
  • Stimulate and provoke public interest, excitement and debate about science and technology.
]]> No publisher Marius Hagen 2012-04-13T13:12:46Z Hendelse The International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 Conference - "From knowledge to action" http://www.nordforsk.org/no/events/from-knowledge-to-action Occurring at a pivotal time for the environment of our planet, the International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 Conference draws international attention to the Polar Regions, global change, and related environmental, social and economic issues. From Knowledge to Action will bring together over 2,000 Arctic and Antarctic researchers, policy- and decision-makers, and a broad range of interested parties from academia, industry, non-government, education and circumpolar communities including indigenous peoples. The IPY 2012 Conference will contribute to the translation of new polar scientific findings into an evidence-based agenda for action that will influence global decisions, policies and outcomes over the coming years.

]]> No publisher Marius Hagen 2012-04-13T13:06:56Z Hendelse