Sustainability in research

Research projects

• Democratic Urban Development in the Digital Age (DEMUDIG)

  The DEMUDIG project investigates the extent and influence of citizen participation through ICT and social media in urban governance.

• CENSU - Climate Change Energy Sustainability

  CENSU is a Norwegian-Tanzanian-Mozambican university collaboration within education and research which focuses on sustainable gas extraction and governance in the context of vulnerable communities and climate change.

• DigiGen – The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation

  DigiGen aims to develop knowledge about how children and young people use and are affected by the technological transformations in their everyday lives.

• EGREEN+ – European Green Mastery

  In EGREEN+ we are working to harmonise sustainable European competence certificates for landscaping, gardening and floristry.

• Riverine Rights: Exploring the Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on the Rights of Rivers

  The project will investigate legal cases from New Zealand, Colombia and India, where rivers have been granted personhood rights. It is an interdisciplinary project, spanning perspectives from social anthropology, law, economics and resource governance.

• EUROSHIP – Closing Gaps in Social Citizenship. New Tools to Foster Social Resilience in Europe

  The overall aim of the EUROSHIP project is to provide an original and gender-sensitive assessment of the current gaps in social protection across Europe.

• FOOdIVERSE: Diversifying sustainable and organic food systems

  The purpose of the FOOdIVERSE project is to produce practice-oriented knowledge on how diversity in diets, novel food supply chains and food governance contributes to more organic and sustainable food systems.

• Governing the green shift in Oslo, Gothenburg, Copenhagen and Cape Town (GreenGov)

  The GreenGov research project aims to create new and exciting knowledge about the challenges and dilemmas public leaders face in managing the green shift in Oslo, Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Cape Town.

• HIRE? A Mixed-method Examination of Disability and Employers Inclusive Working Life Practices

  Employers' understandings of disability as well as their broader knowledge and skills are likely to influence their risk assessments and hiring practices. HIRE? aims to fill this knowledge gap.

• Under Pressure? Migration and Labor Market Integration in Norway (UPMIN)

  The overarching research question in the UPMIN project is: What institutional and contextual factors enhance immigrants’ and refugees’ employment participation?

• LASTING: Sustainable prosperity through product durability

  How can the lifespans of consumer goods be increased?

• Mind the gap: Bridging knowledge and decision-making across sectoral silos and levels of governance in ecosystem based management (EcoGaps)

  EcoGaps addresses apparent gaps between ecosystem science knowledge and its use in regional and local policy-decisions in land-use planning and water management.

• Making Transparency Possible

  This project seeks to contribute to improving the quality of cross border journalism on global financial markets related to illicit financial flows and tax havens.

• Migration for Welfare: Nurses within Three Regimes of Immigration and Integration into the Norwegian Welfare State (WELLMIG)

  WELLMIG brings together the perspectives that migrants not only depend on, but also make significant contributions to the welfare state.

• SEGURA – Food for Security: Evidence from Cauca, Colombia

  The SEGURA project aims to improve knowledge about the complexities of the food security – conflict nexus.

• A Life Course Perspective on the Gendered Pathways of Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life, and its Consequences for Health and Wellbeing (GENPATH)

  GENPATH is an international European research project focussing on social exclusion in later life.

• Strength2Food: Food quality for sustainability and health

  Strength2Food assesses the impacts, exchanges knowledge, and informs policy making on sustainable food chains.

• Ungdata

  Ungdata is a cross-national data collection scheme, designed to conduct youth surveys at the municipal level in Norway. NOVA administers the national database which is used as a basis for many research projects.

• Inequality in Youth – A Qualitative, Longitudinal Research Database

  Inequality in youth is a qualitative, longitudinal research database on youths in Norway, intended to be a parallel to the quantitative Ungdata surveys.

• Welfare State Life Courses: Social Inequalities in the Co-evolution of Employment, Health and Critical Life Events (WELLIFE).

  This project is a multidisciplinary Nordic collaboration researching inequalities in health and opportunities in the Nordic welfare states, and how they unfold over individuals life courses.