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Will your house stand in the next storm?
The storm Dagmar demonstrated once again how vulnerable we are facing the forces of nature. The amount of compensation paid out by insurance companies for flooding and other damage is rapidly escalating. How can we as homeowners learn more about how to avoid such damage resulting from climate change? A website using new visualisation technology may be the answer.
Promoting green growth
The Top-level Research Initiative's Annual Conference in Oslo showed that the initiative promotes green growth in a number of areas, in keeping with the priorities set forth by political leaders in the Nordic region.
Praise for the Top-level Research Initiative
The Top-level Research Initiative received many words of praise at its annual conference in Oslo on 28-29 November. According to the Norwegian Government, the initiative puts Nordic ideals into practice, and Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers Halldór Ásgrimssón is impressed by the results achieved in such a short time.
New research platforms facilitate green growth
The Top-level Research Initiative’s platforms for Nordic research cooperation have already created good conditions for green growth. These are the reviews of the Top-level Research Initiative halfway through the programme period.
Welcome to the Top-level Research Initiative Annual Conference 2011
What results has the Nordic Top-level Research Initiative (TRI) achieved? This and more will be discussed at the second annual conference of the Top-level Research Initiative, to be held at Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica in Oslo on 28-29 November. The conference will be opened by Norway's Minister of Research and Higher Education, Tora Aasland.
Who will win the Nordic Council Environment Prize 2012?
Once again there is the chance to nominate candidates for the Nordic Council Environment Prize. The theme for 2012 is biodiversity and anyone can nominate suitable individuals or organisations for the prize. The deadline for the nomination of candidates is 12 December 2011.
Nordic region to become expert at carbon capture and storage
NORDICCS, a Nordic user driven competence centre for realization of carbon capture and storage, has been launched at SINTEF Energy in Trondheim, Norway. In total, 35 million NOK will be invested by the Nordic countries over a four year period.
PhD position available at NCoE SVALI
The Nordic Centre of Excellence SVALI announces an open position.
Top-level research in the spirit of Nansen
The Nordic Centre for Research on Marine Ecosystems and Resources under Climate Change (NorMER) opened its first annual meeting October 11th on the site where Fridtjof Nansen defended his thesis in April 1888. Rector of the University of Oslo Professor Ole Petter Ottersen used the occasion to encourage researchers to let the spirit of Nansen inspire them.
First annual meeting for NCoE NorMER October 11 and 12
The Nordic Centre for Research on Marine Ecosystems and Resources under Climate Change, a Nordic Centre of Excellence funded by the Top-level Research Initiative, holds their first annual meeting in Oslo in October 11 and 12.
Inauguration of the Nordic Centre of Excellence NORD-STAR attracts international, regional and local attention
Professor R.K. Pachauri, Chairman of IPCC, delivered a message to NCoE NORD-STAR via video and the ribbon was cut by Ms Elisabeth Nilsson, County Governor of Östergötland.
PhD positions available at NCoE CRAICC
The Nordic Centre of Excellence CRAICC announces open positions.
PhD position available at NCoE SVALI
The Nordic Centre of Excellence SVALI announces an open position.
Preparing the Nordic countries for climate change
Nobel laureate to address the inauguration of a Nordic Centre of Excellence on Adaptation Research.
TRI project manager blogs on forskning.no
Nils Christian Stenseth is the project manager for one of the Top-level Research Initiative's Nordic Centres of Excellence: NorMER (Nordic Centre for the Study of Climate Change Effects on Marine Ecosystems and Resource Economics). He blogs about climate and marine environment on forskning.no.
PhD- and Postdoc positions available at NCoE NORD-STAR
The Nordic Centre of Excellence NORD-STAR announces two open positions.
PhD- and Postdoc positions available at NCoE NorMER
8 PhD- and 4 Postdoc positions are now available at the Top-level Research Initiative's Nordic Centre of Excellence NorMER. Research areas are: Ecology, Evolutionary biology and Economy.
A flying start for Nordic cryosphere research
The cryosphere - all frozen water on the face of the Earth - is an uncertain factor in global climate models. More research will improve these models – which is the aim of the three Nordic Centres of Excellence funded within the Top-level Research Initiative’s (TRI) cryosphere programme.
Nordic top-level research becoming an international brand
The Top-level Research Initiative is about to become a brand that creates new and great interest for Nordic top-level research. Professor Nils Christian Stenseth needed no more than 24 hours to put together an Advisory Panel of international experts for his new Nordic Centre of Excellence – all of them accepted immediately.
Nordic-Lithuanian conference - research collaboration on equal footing
- Research collaboration between the Nordic and Baltic countries have long traditions, stated Susanna Sepponen, Senior adviser at NordForsk, at the conference “Lithuanian-Nordic Cooperation: Life-long Learning Experience" in Vilnius yesterday, February 23rd.
