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Projects in SPARK Social Innovation

Overview of ongoing and completed innovation projects

Project period 2023–2025

RecoVRy: Artificial Intelligence powered Virtual Reality Therapy in Psychosis Treatment

  • Unit: Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
  • Project leader: Jan Ivar R?ssberg

DOKUPRAX – Democracy's small tools: A practical-oriented method

  • Unit: TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Project leader: Kristin Asdal

Utilizing AI to enhance accessibility and memorability in communicate

  • Unit: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences

  • Project leader: Thomas Espeseth

Morphing into school: deploying the Captain Morph language app in real-world classrooms

  • Unit: Department of Special Needs Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences
  • Project leader: Janne Torkildsen

2021–2023 (pilots)

BabyLex - The new generation of early language assessments

  • Unit: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Project leader: Julien Mayor
  • Goal: To develop a tool that enables early and effective screening of language delays and disabilities for all small children in Norway and abroad.

CAPABLE: Empower citizens to active use of their health information

  • Unit: Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine 
  • Project leader: Anne Moen
  • Goal: Solve the lack of tools and services that average citizens can use to utilize their own health information to promote health and conquer diseases.

The Future Past

  • Unit: Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, Faculty of Humanities
  • Project leader: Unn Pedersen
  • Goal: To establish a model for cooperation between public administration,  universities and schools to ensure swift sharing of knowledge and bottom-up influence.

ASK: Action for Sustainability through Knowledge co-creation

  • Unit: Department of Teacher Education and School Research, faculty of Educational Sciences
  • Project leader: Alfredo Jornet Gil
  • Goal: To create more relevant (formal and informal) pedagogical models for supporting scientific literacy and forms of actionable knowledge that enable democratic action for sustainability.

Making Museums Relevant to the Public: Innovating Visitor Research Practices

  • Unit: Department of Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences
  • Project leader: Palmyre Pierroux
  • Goal: To develop new forms of knowledge about the public's experiences in museums to ensure that museums remain relevant public spaces for learning, engagement and participation.

Scaling up the implementation of guidelines on family involvement for persons with psychotic disorders in community mental health centres (IFIP-SPARK)

  • Unit: Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine
  • Project leader: Reidar Pedersen
  • Goal: To improve cooperation with next of kin at district psychiatric centres to secure that patients with psychotic disorders and their families receives the recommended healthcare and support.
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