The following projects have been awarded to the University of Oslo since 2013:
UTFORSK 4-year projects
2024
Collaboration on Nuclear Science Education and Research
Project coordinator: Sunniva Siem, Department of Physics (Norwegian Nuclear Research Centre).
Countries: USA, Japan, South-Africa, South-Korea. Main partner university:?University of California, Berkeley (US). Other universities:?Osaka University (JP),?University of Tsukuba (JP),?The University of Tokyo (JP),?Michigan State University (US),?University of the Witwatersrand (ZA), NMBU (NO).
Field instrumentation and measurements in cold region environments (FieldEx)
Project coordinator: Regine Hock, Department of Geosciences.
Countries: Canada, Japan, USA. Main partner university:?University of Ottawa (CA). Other universities:?Carnegie Mellon University (US),?University of Alaska Fairbanks (US), Hokkaido University (JP), University of Waterloo (CA), HVL (NO).
SEA-LEARN: Strengthening and Sustaining Education for Marine Environmental Awareness and Resource Conservation
Project coordinator: Micah Dunthorn, Natural History Museum, Department of Research and Collections.
Countries: Brazil. Main partner university:?Federal University of Para (BR). Other universities: OsloMet (NO).
2022
Sustainable Power Electronics: Collaboration on Training, Research and Innovations between Norway and Korea (SPECTRINKO)
Project coordinator: Andrej Kuznetsov, Department of Physics.
Country: South Korea. Main partner university: Korea University. Other partners: Seoul National University, Kwangwoon University, Pohang University of Science and Technology.
2020
Research-tandems, an innovative approach to improve students' research skills
Project coordinator: Luca Tateo, Department of Special Needs Education.
Countries: Brazil, China, India. Partner universities: Federal University of Bahia, East China Normal University.
BioDATA Advanced – Accelerating biodiversity research through DNA barcodes, collection and observation data
Project coordinator: Hugo de Boer,?Natural History Museum.
Country and partner university: Russia, Altai State University.
Fostering Research‐Based Education through Academic Mobility and Measuring the Domestic Impact of the Core UN Human Rights Treaties
Project coordinator:?Gentian Zyberi,?Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.
Country and partner university: South-Africa, University of Pretoria.
Psychology across cultures: new horizons for teaching and research collaboration between Norway and Brazil
Project coordinator: Karine Viana, Department of Psychology.
Country and partner university: Brazil, Federal University of Pernambuco.
Digital platforms for disease surveillance and control: Best practice case studies from Asia (DMgtAsia)
Project coordinator: Sundeep Sahay, Department of Informatics.
Country and partner university: India, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani ‐ Hyderabad Campus.
2017
Establishing a Brazilian-Norwegian master course in tropical rainforest ecology and biodiversity
Project coordinator: Anneleen Kool, Museum of Natural History.
Country and partner university: Brazil, Federal University of Parà.
Geological resources and sustainable development - learning to live in a finite world
Project coordinator: Clara Sena, Department of Geosciences.
Country and partner university: Brazil, Federal University of Parà.
Theoretical and Experimental Study and Research on Functional Materials (TESFun)
Project coordinator: Anja Olafsen Sj?stad, Department of Chemistry.
Country and partner university: India, Central University of Tamil Nadu.
2016
Implementation of the Long-Term Cooperation Agreement between University of Oslo and Wuhan University
Project coordinator: Chong-Yu Xu, Department of Geosciences.
Country and partner university: China, Wuhan University.
Scholarly Health Informatics Learning (SHI-Learning)
Project coordinator: Jens J. Kaasb?ll, Department of Informatics.
Country and partner university: South Africa, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
Japan-Norway Partnership in Space Science Simulations
Project coordinator: Wojciech J. Miloch, Department of Physics.?
Country and partner university: Japan, Kobe University.
Cosmology and Gravity Education in UCT and UiO
Project coordinator: David F. Mota, Department of Theoretical Astrophysics.
Country and partner university: South Africa, University of Cape Town.
Training of Bachelor, Master and PhD Students Specialized in High Energy Physics
Project coordinator: Larissa Bravina, Department of Physics.
Country and partner university: Russia, National Research Nuclear University "MEPhl".
UTFORSK 2-year projects
2018
Beijing Foreign Studies University's Scandinavian Studies - expanding collaboration to encompass issues of Nordic area and culture studies
Project coordinator: Annely Tomson, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies.
Country and partner university: China, Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Maths & The City - Learning to apply mathemtics outside the school
Project coordinator: Nils Fredrik Buchholtz, Department of Teacher Education and School Research.
Country and partner university: Brazil, Federal University of Ouro Preto.
Establishing higher education collaboration in educational psychology between Norway and Hong Kong (EduCo)
Project coordinator: Riikka-Maija Mononen, Department of Special Needs Education.
Country and partner university: China, The Education University of Hong Kong.
Norway-South Africa Partnership in Capacity Development for Education and Clinical Research in Dentistry
Project coordinator:?Alix Rosslyn Young Vik, Institute of Clinical Dentistry.
Country and partner university: South Africa, University of the Western Cape.
Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene
Project coordinator: Rolf David Vogt, Department of Chemistry.
Country and partner university: China, China Agricultural University, Nankai University, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences.
2017
Building capabilities on data analysis and vizualization for disease surveillance in India
Project coordinator: Sundeep Sahay, Department of Informatics.
Country and partner university: India, Indian Institute of Technology, Dehli.
Digital Geosciences: Knowledge Management for the Energy Industry
Project coordinator: Martin Giese, Department of Informatics.
Country and partner university: Brazil, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.
2016
Norway-Russia Partnership in the Study of Turbulence and Waves in the Polar Ionosphere
Project coordinator: Wojciech J. Miloch, Department of Physics.
Country and partner university: Russia, Russian Academy of Science.
MENSA Minerals and Energy Norway South Africa
Project coordinator: Catherine Banet, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law.
Country and partner university: South Africa, University of Cape Town.
ROCAIR - Rio Grande do Sul and Oslo collaboration on AI and Robotics
Project coordinator: Jim T?rresen, Department of Informatics.
Country and partner university: Brazil, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
2014
Numerical simulations of rocket-plasma interaction
Project coordinator:?Wojciech J. Miloch, Department of Physics.
Country and partner university: Japan, Kobe University.
2013
Democracy, Welfare and Development: Indian and Scandinavian Experiences
Project coordinator: Olle T?rnquist, Department of Political Science.
Country and partner university: India, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Norway-China Partnership for Supercomputing Education and Research
Project coordinator: Xing Cai, Department of Informatics.
Country and partner university: China, National University of Defence Technology.
UTFORSK Brazil (prev. CAPES-SIU) projects
2017
Digital Geosciences: Knowledge Management for Interoperability of Geoscientific Data
Project coordinator: Martin Giese, Department of Informatics.
Partner university: Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.
Transnational training in eDNA for biodiversity assessments and restoration ecology
Project coordinator: Hugo de Boer, Museum of Natural History.
Partner university: Federal University of Parà.
2016
Waves and Turbulence in Multiphase Flow
Project Coordinator: Atle Jensen, Department of Mathematics.
Partner university: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.
2013
Diversity of fungi in Brazilian forest ecosystems UiO
Project coordinator: Karl-Henrik Larsson, Natural History Museum.
Partner university: Federal University of Pernambuco.
Education, Academic exchange and Research within the area of Petroleum Geophysics/Image analysis
Project coordinator: Leiv Jacob Gelius, Department of Geosciences.
Partner university: State university of Campinas (UNICAMP).