UTFORSK projects at UiO

The UTFORSK Partnership Programme?supports project cooperation between higher education institutions in Norway and higher education institutions in Brazil, China, India, Japan, South Africa, USA, Canada and South Korea.

See HK-dir's website?for further information.

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).

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