Overview of research projects

Aesthetic Learning Processes in Science Education

PhD project examining the potential role of aesthetic learning processes in science education within the framework of education for sustainable development.

AI-Supported Prewriting in Lower Secondary School: Idea Development, Idea Movement, and Student Perspectives

PhD project examining how students develop ideas and experience authorship when, during prewriting, they use a chatbot that only asks questions and does not generate text.

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Citizenship in Education

The PhD project explores how artificial intelligence shapes digital citizenship education, focusing on AI literacy, ethical awareness, and sociotechnical imaginaries.

Better Provision for Norway's Children in ECEC

A major Norwegian study in on the quality and effectiveness of ECEC.

Beyond access: improving quality of early years reading instructions in Ethiopia

The objective of the project is to improve the quality of education for primary grades in Ethiopian schools.

Bringing Home Languages to Light: Perspectives from Polish Families and Professionals in Norwegian ECECs

PhD project exploring how home languages are supported and implemented in Norwegian early childhood education and care (ECEC), as viewed from the perspectives of minority parents and pedagogical leaders.

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.

Challenging the design principle of mixed-worded questionnaire scales

The project focuses on the design principle of combining both positively and negatively worded items in questionnaire scales.

Classroom activities for the six-year-olds – 20 years on (Klassprax_20)

The project investigates and evaluates the classroom activities of six year old children.

CLIL Network for Languages in Education (CLILNetLE)

The project aims to develop a shared conceptualisation and research agenda for the investigation of bi- and multilingual disciplinary literacies in Content and language integrated learning (CLIL).

COIL in Deaf Studies and Sign Language

Establish a basis for a sustainable system for a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) module in deaf studies and sign language. COIL can be described as virtual student and staff exchange as a strategic tool for internationalization of the c

Critical thinking in primary education

KriT is an interdisciplinary project aiming at developing educational models for critical thinking in primary education using children’s literature and news.

DARE – Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality

The project investigates how young people aged between 12 and 30 respond to messages and agents of radicalisation.

Democracy, Equality, Learning and Mobilisation for Future Citizens (DEMOCIT)

The aim of DEMOCIT is to partake in reducing a growing civic empowerment gap within Norwegian democracy.

Developing ICT in Teacher Education (DiCTE)

The overarching aim of the project is to develop ICT in teacher education.

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.

Educators and learners meet artificial intelligence

This project is dedicated to exploring both teachers' and students' perspectives on the implementation of artificial intelligence in an educational context.

EGREEN+ – European Green Mastery

Sustainable European competence certificates for landscaping, gardening and floristry.

Empowered

The research project aims to develop innovative practices, methods and tools that promote ‘digital empowerment’ in schools and teacher education.

Enhancing student teachers' abilities to facilitate learners' digital competence (ENHANCE)

The project aims to strengthen teacher education programmes across Europe, equipping student teachers with the digital readiness and capacity to empower learners’ digital competence and address digital exclusion.

Erasmus Mundus Design Measures: MA in Applied Deaf Studies

The MADS project has a view of setting up a new European joint master’s programme in applied deaf studies.

Evaluation of the renewal of vocational subjects

NIFU, OsloMet and Fafo are carrying out a research-based evaluation of the renewal of vocational subjects, commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Education.

Flipped classroom in science education (FiNa)

Flipped classroom in science education (FiNa) aims at developing and investigating learning design based on digitally supported flipped classroom in order to facilitate student active learning.

From Unskilled to Skilled workers – Adults Obtaining a Trade Certificate through the Practice Candidate Scheme

PhD project exploring how adults without upper secondary education learn their trade, develop a vocational identity, and obtain a trade certificate through the Norwegian practice candidate scheme.

Students on exchange. Smiling students in a row outdoors.

Holistic approach to increased student exchange in early childhood education (HETBLU)

The HETBLU project aims to strengthen the culture for internationalization and increased student exchange at early childhood institutions.

IMaT – Inclusive Mathematics Teaching: Understanding and developing school and classroom strategies for raising attainment

This project aims to strengthen mathematics teaching in Norwegian primary and lower secondary schools.

Inclusive education in Nepal (NORHED II)

The project aims to build a strong teaching and research unit on inclusive education at Tribhuvan University in Nepal.

INTERACT - Interprofessional Interaction With Children and Youth

The aim of the project is to provide the students with knowledge about and experience of interprofessional cooperation.

Let's Become Inspirers and Architects of a Sustainable School

The project targets challenges in the school environment and aims to foster inclusive teaching practices by developing "green skills".

Life Mastery as an Educational Phenomenon in Curricula

PhD project examining how "life mastery", "life capability", "well-being" or "life skills", as a historical educational-philosophical phenomenon, appears in Norwegian curricula in the period of 1939-2020.

Literacies for Health and Life Skills

The “Literacies for Health and Life Skills” (HLS) project aims to develop and implement a new didactic approach that will enable pre-service teachers to facilitate the development of young people´s health and life skills.

Mapping hateful utterances about Muslims on Norwegian Social Media

Based on analyses of big data from Norwegian social media the project aims to map hate speech about Muslims. The project will also conduct a meta-analysis of existing knowledge about hate speech about Muslims.

Mathematics, Science and Computational Thinking (MASCOT)

MASCOT is an interdisciplinary, collaborative and innovative research collaboration that aims to develop knowledge about teaching, learning and assessment processes of computational thinking in teacher education and school.

Multilingual Beliefs and Pedagogies of English Language School Teachers in Norway

PhD project exploring how to foster multilingual pedagogies in English language teaching in schools in Norway through researching the multilingual beliefs and pedagogies of English teachers in linguistically rich and diverse school contexts.

New media practices in a changing Africa

The project starts from two significant facts: relatively consistent economic growth in Africa over two decades, and a digital media revolution during the same period.

Outdoor Learning in Higher Education (OLHE)

The project aims to strengthen knowledge, skills, and practices related to outdoor learning (OL) in higher education across Europe.

PolkaNorski Implemented

The development of language skills and world knowledge in Polish-Norwegian multilingual children.

Practical placement in the Global South

The purpose of the project is to enhance practical placement in the Global South to achieve a more stable and permanently increased number of students, based on a more quality-assured collaboration with the Global South.

Prevention of prejudice and promotion of inclusive school environment through increased diversity competence

The main goal of this project is to develop new knowledge on prejudice, hate speech and practices and attitudes that might cause exclusion in the school context.

Programming and makerspace in schools: Competences for the 21 st. century and adapted training for gifted students

The project is about developing technology-rich teaching programs for use in adapted education for gifted students.The focus is on the use of programming in teaching as part of a makerspace context.

Reinventing Mainstream Classrooms (RE.MA.C.)

The project brings together native language students, migrant students and mainstream (language) teachers.

Research about the Norwegian national school leadership education

Norwegian universities and colleges have since 2009 offered national school leadership programs on behalf of the Norwegian Directorate of Education.

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.

Searching for Qualities

Investigation and research on the quality in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) for children under the age of three years.

Staying on Track – completion in vocational education and training

A longitudinal interview study following vocational students with low grades from lower secondary education through upper secondary vocational education and training (VET).

Strategies for Achieving Equity and Inclusion in Education, Training and Learning in Democratic Europe (STRIDE)

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.

Strengthening teacher education in lesser taught languages (STELT)

The main aim of the project is to strengthen foreign language teacher education for French, German and Spanish in Norway.

Supporting Content and Language Learning Across Diversity (SCALED)

The aim of the SCALED project is to develop a new online course: interactive and self-study mode that can be adapted to onsite use.

Sustainable Future for Education – Inclusive Vocational Practices

This is a Blended Intensive Program (BIP) with a focus on internationalisation in vocational teacher education.

Teacher education across Europe: Innovative Mobility Opportunities (ΤΕΙΜΟ)

The TEIMO project aims to develop an inclusive, state-of-the-art Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) to enhance teacher education across Europe.

Teacher Education for a Future in Flux - TEFF Academy

An international research project addressing the need for joint training and further education that help teachers cope with recent challenges in schools.

Teacher Education Panel Study (TEPS)

The Teacher Education Panel Study (TEPS) is a comprehensive study on the implementation of teacher education in Norway.

Teacher Education Schools in Vocational Teacher Education

Development of an organizational theoretical, didactic model for collaboration between educational institution and field of practice.

Teacher Qualification for the 21st century - teachers professional competence (TEQ21)

Future school and society are characterized by rapid changes and technological development, which in turn demand new competences such as creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking. In order to meet these challenges, teacher education p

Teacher Research Literacy (TREL): Comparative Trajectories in the Nordic-Baltic Region

TREL aims to identify good practices in the Nordic-Baltic educational context.

Teachers' and leaders' representation and participation in collaborations established to strengthen teacher education (REPRESENT)

The purpose of this survey is to gain increased knowledge about teachers’ and leaders’ representation and participation in collaborations established to strengthen the quality of teacher education programs.

Teachers’ Research Literacy for Science teaching (TRELIS)

Project TRELIS aims to prepare research literate science teachers who are able to integrate research-based knowledge with classroom experience to develop rich science learning opportunities for pupils.

Traditional Craftsmanship for a Sustainable Future

The project aims to strengthen the competency of the vocational teachers in traditional crafts by providing courses by craftsmen throughout the education.

Transnational Collaboration on Bullying, Migration and Integration at School Level (TRIBES)

The project aims at advancing collaboration between stakeholders to evolve and improve scientific measures and guides, building capacity across these challenged areas, working holistically towards ensuring integration.

Vibrant Connections

In the project Vibrant Connections, we are particularly involved with how music, both traditional and new songs, can contribute to the preservation and renewal of immaterial cultural heritage in kindergartens and in kindergarten teacher training programme