Sustainability in research

Research projects

• Sustainable Societies in the 21st Century: From Welfare States to Eco-social States (WEST)

  The WEST project examines what we call the ecological dilemma of the Norwegian welfare state.

• Promising Practices: Holistic Work Inclusion of Young Adults

  The project will map how young adults are followed up in NAV with the aim of developing the work inclusion practice of this group.

• 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.

• Sustainable wellbeing through investment in social services (SWINS)

  The project aims to bridge knowledge gaps on how investments in social services influence macroeconomic stability and the EU’s sustainability transition.

• 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.

• Sustainability Performances, Evidence and Scenarios (SPES)

  The aim of the SPES project is to generate new knowledge about the nexus between economic growth, human flourishing and sustainability, fostering the transition towards the sustainable human development in European countries and regions.

• DigiGen – The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation
• EGREEN+ – European Green Mastery

  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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.