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International collaboration is at the backbone of research, innovation and higher education. The frontiers of knowledge are being driven within a vibrant global knowledge system. The exchange of ideas and new discoveries is in the DNA of research communities everywhere. 

At the same time, we experience dramatic world developments, an all-encompassing pandemic, severe threats to the natural environment and climate, an unsecure global geopolitical situation, the undermining of factual knowledge, the fear of research results and innovations being used for military purposes, new regulations on export control and knowledge transfer, and threats to academic freedom and academic freedom of speech. 

How then should researchers handle international knowledge cooperation in a world that is dramatically changing?

Programme

Moderator: Nancy Bazilchuk, Communication Division

Keynote:

Complicating international knowledge cooperation

Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr, Senior Researcher, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) 

Panel discussion

Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr, Senior Researcher, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) 

Kristin Danielsen, Executive Director, Internationalization and the research system, The Research Council of Norway

Maria Bartnes, Research Director, SINTEF Digital

Tor Grande, Pro-Rector for Research and Dissemination

Thomas Tybell, Professor and Head of Department of Electronic Systems, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

 10:15–10:45  Break and transfer to parallel sessions