Active Projects
Active Projects A-E
ACES: Accelerating energy and sustainability transitions in ports
ACES: Accelerating energy and sustainability transitions in ports
ACES (ACcelerating Energy and Sustainability transitions in ports: From national visions to co-constructed transition) aims to facilitate and accelerate sector-wide energy and sustainability transitions in Norwegian ports. Ports can move society towards zero emission through the number of functions they serve, including delivering sustainability ambitions and ensuring synergies between the different sectors that intersect in ports. Transition Management is used as research design.
Project leader: Kristin Ystmark Bjerkan (SINTEF)
Research partners: SINTEF; The Dutch Research Institute of Transitions (DRIFT)
Contact persons: Timo von Wirth (DRIFT); Marianne Ryghaug (NTNU); Susanne Jørgensen (NTNU)
Funding: The Research Council of Norway
Duration: 2021-2025
AImagine: Artificial Imaginaries of the Socio-Technical
AImagine: Artificial Imaginaries of the Socio-Technical
AImagine enhances DigiKULT’s focus on digitalization as societal inquiry related to fictional imaginaries of technology. It investigates how fictional depictions of AI/robots lay the groundwork for the development and domestication of actual technology, and how they negotiate current issues of increased reliance on and use of technology in everyday practices. AI and robots are also capturing our imagination like never before, and we need more knowledge on how imaginaries relate to real life application.
Project leader: Roger A. Søraa (NTNU)
Contact person: Roger A. Søraa (NTNU)
Funding: NTNU Humanities Faculty
Duration: 2023-2027
ARV: Climate Positive Circular Neighbourhoods
ARV: Climate Positive Circular Neighbourhoods
The overall aim of the EU-funded ARV project is to demonstrate and validate attractive, resilient, and affordable solutions that significantly speed-up deep energy renovations and deployment of energy and climate measures in the construction and energy industries. The project is working towards the implementation of climate-positive circular communities in Europe, focusing on net zero-emission buildings and neighbourhoods. ARV will provide guidelines and a policy framework for future energy-efficient, circular, and digital solutions in the construction industry.
Project leader: Inger Andresen (NTNU)
Research partners: Universiteit Utrecht; Università degli Studi di Trento; Stichting Mitros, Stichting Hogeschool Utrecht; Stichting Bo-Ex 91, Statutarni Mesto Karvina, Sonderborg Andelsboligforening, Sistemes Avancats D Energia Solar Termica Sccl, SINTEF, Rc Panels Bv, ProjectZero, Politecnico Di Torino, Oslo Kommune, Nano Power As, Metrovacesa, Sa, Me X Architects Bv, iwell, IREC, Instituto Balear De La Vivienda, Housing Europe, HABITECH DTTN - Distretto Tecnologico Trentino, Green Digital Finance Alliance, Gemeente Utrecht, Eurac Research, ENFOR, Dolomiti Energia, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Danfoss A/S, Czech Technical University – CVUT, Center Danmark Drift Aps, Buro De Haan, Bos Installatiewerken Bv, Ayuntament De Palma De Mallorca, Architects’ Council of Europe
Contact persons: Ruth Woods (NTNU)
Funding: H2020 EU
Duration: 2022-2026
ATLANTIS: Hopes and futures of academia: reimagining Bacon's New Atlantis
ATLANTIS: Hopes and futures of academia: reimagining Bacon's New Atlantis
The project ATLANTIS (Hopes and Futures of Academia: Reimagining Bacon's New Atlantis) tackles the challenges facing academia by focusing on alternatives that rethink the relation between science and society.
Project leaders: Kyriaki Papageorgiou (NTNU); Vivan Lagesen (NTNU); Knut Sørensen (NTNU); Sharon Traweek (UCLA)
Contact person: Kyriaki Papageorgiou
Funding: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Individual Fellowship)
Duration: 2022-2026
BIAS: Mitigating diversity biases in the labor market
BIAS: Mitigating diversity biases in the labor market
The project will investigate the use of Artificial Intelligence in the labor market, and how biases in hiring and promoting processes based on personal characteristics are potentially reproduced with AI-based systems.
Project leader: Roger A. Søraa (NTNU)
Research partners: BFH University of Applied Sciences; University of Iceland; LOBA (Ireland); Crowd Helix; Smart Venice; Leiden University; Digiotouch; Farplas
Contact persons: Roger A. Søraa (NTNU); Mark Kharas (NTNU)
Funding: Horizon Europe (RIA)
Duration: 2022-2026
DigiFrailCare
DigiFrailCare
DigiFrailCare targets digitisation and the use of digitised health data to improve health services for older people at risk of or with frailty. Frailty refers to age-related physical debility; a complex condition characterised by a cumulative decline across multiple physiological systems and increasing vulnerability to adverse health outcomes and death. Sustainable health services for frail older people are highly needed. The project will impact future multidisciplinary work models for frailty to improve health and function in older people, for the sake of improved and sustainable future health care services.
Project leader: Roger A. Søraa (NTNU)
Funding: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (NTNU)
Contact: Roger A. Søraa (NTNU)
Duration: 2023-2027
DIGIT: Norwegian Research School on Digitalization, Culture and Society
DIGIT: Norwegian Research School on Digitalization, Culture and Society
The Norwegian Research School on Digitalization, Culture and Society (DIGIT) offers joint seminars, academic courses, writing workshops, communication and management training, network- and secondment opportunities, providing PhD students and postdoctoral fellows with a platform to conduct innovative investigations into the complex interplay of digital, cultural and social changes.
Project leader: Roger A. Søraa (NTNU)
Research partner: OsloMet
Contact person: Roger A. Søraa (NTNU)
Funding: OsloMet
Duration: 2022-2029
Egg donation, gender and the body
Egg donation, gender and the body
The project studies how Norwegian women are considering the possibility to become an egg donor, following egg donation as recently legally acclaimed. Qualitative interviews with women ask about their attitudes to egg donation related to perceptions of their body, of parenthood and kinship, including gendered conceptions and expectations of these matters.
Project leader: Merete Lie (NTNU)
Project partners: Riikka Homanen (Tampere University); Kristin Eng Førde (Oslo University); Ingvill Stuvøy (NTNU)
Contact: Guro Korsnes Kristensen (NTNU)
Funding: Department of Transdisciplinary Studies of Culture (NTNU)
Duration: 2022-2025
EIA
EIA
How do students experience inclusion and exclusion in academia?
We know quite a lot about gender balance in higher education, but we know less about how gender, ethnicity and social background interact and shape students’ well-being, sense of belonging, and motivation to pursue – or not pursue – an academic career.
The project Exclusion and Inclusion in Academic Communities: Analyzing Students' Experiences (EIA) will do research on this in a two-year project.
Project leader: Vivian Anette Lagesen (NTNU)
Project partners: Julie Flikke and Knut Holtan Sørensen (NTNU)
Contact: Vivian Anette Lagesen (NTNU)
Funding: The Research Council of Norway
Duration: 2026-2028
Active Projects F-L
Family planning in times of climate crisis
Family planning in times of climate crisis
The aim of this project is to explore what has – until quite recently – been a politically and publicly tacit relation between national fertility rates and global climate change, but which is an emerging topic both in politics and in the general public. In the first phases of the project we analyse public discourses on fertility and family planning in contemporary Norway. The next step is to interview various experts, stakeholders and interest groups, as well as Norwegian lay people. The project has a comparative dimension which is operationalized through a collaboration with gender researchers at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo.
Project leader: Guro Korsnes Kristensen (NTNU)
Duration: 2020-[no set end date]
FAMREUN: Family reunification and unaccompanied refugee minors
FAMREUN: Family reunification and unaccompanied refugee minors
FAMREUN (Family reunification and unaccompanied refugee minors: psychosocial health, integration and support services) investigates how family reunification affects the psychosocial health and integration of unaccompanied refugee minors, and the role of support healthcare and integration services in this process. The aim of the project is to gain knowledge of these young people’s experiences of family reunification, and of the health and integration services’ experiences of working with URM who have been family-reunited, as well as to optimise the quality, competence, effectiveness, and cooperation between these services.
Project leader: Priscilla Ringrose (NTNU)
Research partners: Guro K. Kristensen (NTNU); Turid F. Sætermo (NTNU); Irmelin Kjelaas (NTNU); Gjertrud Moe (NTNU); Borgunn Ytterhus (NTNU); Ketil Eide (USN)
Contact person: Priscilla Ringrose (NTNU)
Funding: Researcher Project Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal (The Research Council of Norway)
Duration: 2023-2027
FME NorthWind: Turning wind R&D into a sustainable industry
FME NorthWind: Turning wind R&D into a sustainable industry
FME NorthWind works to turn wind R&D into a profitable export industry that creates green jobs and respects nature. The research will address the grand science and engineering challenges to realise the full potential of the wind energy sector in a sustainable future.
Project leader: John Olav Tande (NorthWind)
Research partners: SINTEF; NTNU; NGI; UiO; NINA
Contact person: Sara Heidenreich (NTNU)
Funding: Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research
Duration: 2021-2026
FME NTRANS: Norwegian centre for energy transition strategies
FME NTRANS: Norwegian centre for energy transition strategies
NTRANS is a national research centre which starts from the assumption that energy and climate transitions have reached a new and critical stage.
Project leader: Asgeir Tomasgard (NTNU); Tomas Moe Skjølsvold (NTNU); Mette Bjørndal (NTNU)
Research partners: NHH; SNF; UiO; SINTEF; Vestlandsforskning; Høgskulen på vestlandet; and approx. 30 partners from industry, civil society and the public sector
Contact person: Tomas Moe Skjølsvold (NTNU)
Funding: The Research Council of Norway
Duration: 2019-2027
Gender balance and diversity in higher education (Project group)
Gender balance and diversity in higher education (Project group)
The research group seeks to understand and improve the gender balance and other forms of diversity in academia. This is important not only for reasons of justice, but also because it enhances quality and innovation in research and education. Ultimately, achieving such goals creates better work environments.
Current projects:
- Understanding gender imbalances among university professors: the shaping and reshaping of epistemic living spaces (GENDIM)
- Learning from gender balance and equality measures
Project leader: Vivian A. Lagesen (NTNU)
Contact person: Vivian A. Lagesen (NTNU)
Funding: The Research Council of Norway
Duration: Ongoing
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KARMA: Qualitative mapping of diversity
KARMA: Qualitative mapping of diversity
KARMA: Qualitative mapping of diversity is an initiative project where the goal is to develop a digital tool for working with diversity in academia. The tool will be a resource in the expanded gender equality work at departments and research groups, and include various forms of inequality. To achieve this, we will collect and investigate the diversity and experiences from ongoing/recently completed projects at NTNU and the University of Bergen.
Project leader: Siri Øyslebø Sørensen
Project members: Julie K. Flikke (NTNU) and Eva Amundsdotter (Stockholm University/NTNU).
Financing: The Research Council of Norway
Duration: 2024-2026
’Keep scrolling’: User-platform relationship on TkTok
’Keep scrolling’: User-platform relationship on TkTok
«’Keep scrolling’: User-platform relationship on TkTok» is a research project about users and platforms. Based on ethnography, qualitative interviews and content analysis, the project will produce knowledge about use and user cultures on TikTok. The project combines Science and Technology Studies (STS) with internet studies for a critical analysis of TikTok as technology, culture, and practice.
Contact person: Kristine Ask
Funding: No external funding
Active Projects M-Z
MARU: Making research useful
MARU: Making research useful
The project aims to enhance strategies and policies for utilizing scientific knowledge more effectively to address key societal challenges, including sustainability and digitalization.
Project leader: Vivian Anette Lagesen (NTNU)
Research partners: Four researchers in Interdisciplinary cultural studies, and four partners from industry and governance in Trøndelag
Funding: The Norwegian Research Council
Duration: 2025-2028
MidWay: A middle way? Probing sufficiency through meat and milk in China
MidWay: A middle way? Probing sufficiency through meat and milk in China
The primary objective of the MidWay-project is to probe the concept of sufficiency as a useful organising principle to achieve reduced consumption based on the empirical inputs from meat and milk practices in China.
Project leader: Marius Korsnes (NTNU)
Funding: The European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
Duration: 2022-2027
NORHED: Capacity building for socially just and sustainable energy transitions
NORHED: Capacity building for socially just and sustainable energy transitions
East Africa has embraced the global drive to sustainability transitions. This project focuses on building capacity and competence through education, research and outreach to secure that the region has workforce with relevant skills set and knowledge to implement and demand for a just and sustainable low-carbon energy transition agenda.
Project leader: Charlotte N. Nakakaawa (NTNU)
Research partners: University of Stavanger; Makerere University; Makerere University Business School; University of Juba; Technical University of Kenya
Contact person: Sara Heidenreich (NTNU)
Funding: NORAD (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation – NORHED II programme)
Duration: 2021-2026
SoMaT: Sociomaterial transformations in Norway and East Asia
SoMaT: Sociomaterial transformations in Norway and East Asia
This INTPART project investigates sociomaterial transformations in Norway and East Asia from a Humanities-based Science & Technology Studies (STS) framework on three thematic areas: sustainability, digitalization, and diversity.
Project leaders: Roger Søraa (NTNU); Marius Korsnes (NTNU)
Research partners: Tokyo Institute of Technology; Tsinghua University; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Contact person: Roger Søraa (NTNU); Marius Korsnes (NTNU); Yu Cheng (NTNU)
Funding: The Research Council of Norway
Duration: 2023-2028
SusHydro: Sustainable hydropower development and reservoir management
SusHydro: Sustainable hydropower development and reservoir management
SusHydro will facilitate the role of hydropower as enabler of a fully renewable energy system, improve hydropower’s role in climate adaptation, contribute to environmentally friendly hydropower production, as well as just and democratic processes for hydropower development and operations.
Project leader: Tor Haakon Bakken (NTNU)
Research partners: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (NTNU)
Contact person: Sara Heidenreich (NTNU)
Funding: Interdisciplinary Sustainable Initiative at NTNU
Duration: 2022-2026