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.
Field instrumentation and measurements in cold region environments (FieldEx)
Project coordinator: Regine Hock, Department of Geosciences.
Countries: Canada, Japan, USA.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Brazil: Federal University of Parà.
Geological resources and sustainable development - learning to live in a finite world
Project coordinator: Clara Sena, Department of Geosciences
Brazil: Federal University of Parà
Theoretical and Experimental Study and Research on Functional Materials (TESFun)
Project coordinator: Anja Olafsen Sj?stad, Department of Chemistry
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
China: Wuhan University.
Scholarly Health Informatics Learning (SHI-Learning)
Project coordinator: Jens J. Kaasb?ll, Department of Informatics
South Africa: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
Japan-Norway Partnership in Space Science Simulations
Project coordinator: Wojciech J. Miloch, Department of Physics
Japan: Kobe University.
Cosmology and Gravity Education in UCT and UiO
Project coordinator: David F. Mota, Department of Theoretical Astrophysics
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
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
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
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
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
South Africa: University of the Western Cape.
Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene
Project coordinator: Rolf David Vogt, Department of Chemistry
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
India: Indian Institute of Technology, Dehli.
Digital Geosciences: Knowledge Management for the Energy Industry
Project coordinator: Martin Giese, Department of Informatics
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
Russia: Russian Academy of Science.
MENSA Minerals and Energy Norway South Africa
Project coordinator: Catherine Banet, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law
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
Brazil: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
2014
Numerical simulations of rocket-plasma interaction
Project coordinator: Wojciech J. Miloch, Department of Physics
Japan: Kobe University.
2013
Democracy, Welfare and Development: Indian and Scandinavian Experiences
Project coordinator: Olle T?rnquist, Department of Political Science
India: Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Norway-China Partnership for Supercomputing Education and Research
Project coordinator: Xing Cai, Department of Informatics
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
Brazil: 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
Brazil: Federal University of Parà.
2016
Waves and Turbulence in Multiphase Flow
Project Coordinator: Atle Jensen, Department of Mathematics
Brazil: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.
2013
Diversity of fungi in Brazilian forest ecosystems UiO
Project coordinator: Karl-Henrik Larsson, Natural History Museum
Brazil: 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
Brazil: State university of Campinas (UNICAMP).