Overview of research projects

CHANGE: Environmental systems shift in clothing consumption

In CHANGE, we will investigate what is most essential to reduce the environmental impact of clothing: reduce the amount of clothing that is produced, acquired and disposed of.

Digital vulnerabilities at home (PhD project)

This PhD project is concerned with how internet connected devices in homes, such as smart assistants, smart lights, smart door locks and robot vacuums, are integrated into the Norwegian households’ everyday life.

Food2Gather: Exploring foodscapes as public places for integration

FOOD2GATHER investigates the roles food play in creating public spaces, shaping opportunities for communication and relations between places and the peoples that inhabit it (so-called host-societies, refugees, displaced populations, newcomers, etc.), thus creating conditions for living together.

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.

FoodLessons: Culinary Heritage as a Resource in Developing "Food Nation Norway 2030"

This project will take a closer look at how a revitalization of our culinary heritage can be used in business development and value creation.

FUSILLI - Fostering the Urban Food System Transformation through Innovative Living Labs Implementation

Through experimental methods and knowledge sharing, researchers will explore new ways of producing and distributing food in European cities. OsloMet and the municipality of Oslo are Norwegian partners in the project, which has been supported by Horizon 2020, the EU's framework program for research.

GoNano: Governing Nanotechnologies through Societal Engagement

The EU-funded GoNano project enables co-creation between citizens, researchers, industry, civil society organisations, and policy makers across Europe to align future nanotechnologies with societal needs and concerns.

GoodAnimal: Animal Welfare for Sustainable Futures

GoodAnimal’s primary objective is to acquire knowledge that will mitigate threats and increase opportunities for sustainable farm and industry practices.

Healthy Eating: Utopia or a Contemporary Must

The project explores the questions of healthy eating, obesity, and the influence of advertisements on consumption of food by adolescents and young people in Norway and the Czech Republic.

IMAGINE – Contested Futures of Sustainability

When you think about the future, what do you imagine? Flying cars, tubed food, or high-tech clothing might be among the images that come to mind. IMAGINE sets out to study these images of the future as imaginaries. Imaginaries are the many ways in which we humans think about the future and ways in which they can become possible. Our project looks specifically at how we imagine sustainable futures.

LASTING: Sustainable prosperity through product durability

How can the lifespans of consumer goods be increased?

Organic-PLUS

The aim of Organic-PLUS is minimising, and eventually phasing out contentious inputs from certified organic agriculture.

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Plateforms: Enabling sustainable food practices through socio-technical innovation

The Research Project PLATEFORMS aims to produce in-depth knowledge on how food practices in the home are affected by innovations in food provisioning platforms.

Policy Evaluation Network (PEN) – Public policies addressing health-related behaviours in Europe

The Joint Programming Initiative a Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life (JPI HDHL) brings together 26 countries that align research programming and fund new research to prevent or minimise diet-related chronic diseases.

Practices and policies of belonging among minority and majority children of low-income families (BELONG)

This project seeks to increase current knowledge of the practices causing marginalization and social exclusion of minority and majority children of low-income families.

REDUCE – Rethinking Everyday Plastics

The project will look at plastic in a systems perspective and investigate how the consumption of plastic products in everyday life can be reduced.

Relinking the weak link. Building resilient digital households through interdisciplinary and multilevel exploration and intervention

What roles do socio-technical practices and infrastructures play in shaping security risks in technologies of the home and what tools and interventions can be developed to enable digitally resilient households?

SafeConsume

The objective of SafeConsume is to reduce health burden from foodborne illnesses.

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.

U-YouPa – Understanding Youth Participation and Media literacy in Digital Dialogue Spaces

The key goal of this project is to provide a research-based understanding of the interconnection between cultural and technological preconditions for strengthening youth participation in digital dialogue spaces.

Want Not, Waste Not

This PhD project is a wardrobe study approach to minimizing synthetic textile waste in Norwegian households.

Wasted Textiles

The primary objective of this project is to reduce the use of synthetic textiles and the amount that goes to waste.

WellDebt: Debt problems, illhealth and labour market marginalisation

The project aims to fill knowledge gaps on the interrelationships between debt problems, poor health and labour market marginalisation.

WOOLUME: Polish sheep wool for improved resource utilisation and value creation

The main objective of Woolume is to explore how an under-utilized natural resource – wool from remote mountain regions – can be maximized into materials in local sustainable industry innovation systems that offer high returns on investment and contribute to an optimized, next-generation circular economy.

“Free to play – pay to win”: Understanding young people’s social inclusion through their consumer behavior in gaming

PhD project about social inclusion and exclusion though gaming.