Social sciences and humanities in NorwayA bird’s-eye view

Budapest February 15 2018Bjorn T. Kjellemo

Objectives:

Enhance competitivenessand innovation

Tackle major societal challenges

Research communities of outstanding quality

Adopted by the Parliament

Long-Term Plan for Research and Higher Education

Seas and Oceans

Climate, Environment and Renewable Energy

Enabling Technologies

Better and More Effective Public Services

Thematic priorities in the Long-Term Plan

R&D expenditure to HE and institute sector by fields of science. MNOK and per cent 2015 (~850 mill € to SSH)

R&D in Higher Education Institutions- per scientific discipline

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Natural sciences Technology Medical sciences Agriculture and fisheries Social sciences Humanities

Higher education sector in Norway 2016

9 Universitities – UiO, UiB, NTNU, UiT, OSLOMET

5 Specialized universities NHH, NMH, AHO

12 University colleges

260 000 students = one in three 19-24 year olds

~27 000 students in arts and humanities

Research institute sector in Norway 2015(*)

48(9) institutes

14 Technical industrial institutes

8 Environmental institutes

22 Social science institutes

4(5) Primary industry institutes

Higher education (HE) sector - Research institute sector - Commercial sector

Norwegian Research and innovationsystem: Three performing sectors

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KRISTIANSAND

STAVANGER

BERGEN

TRONDHEIM

TROMSØ

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Norwegian Centres of Excellence withinSocial Sciences and humanities

Centre for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing) UiO

Centre for the study of Equality, Social Organization, and Performance (ESOP) UiO

Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) UiO

Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of theJudiciary in the Global Order (PluriCourts) UiO

Centre for Early Human Behaviour UiB

Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality, and Rationality NHH

Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion UiO

Europe in Transition

Main thematics:

Driving forces, trends and challenges in Europe’s/EUs political development

Economic development, the InternalMarked and global competition

Basic values under pressure

EU foreign and security policy.

Climate and energy challenges, the green transition

The Research Council of Norway has built Norwegian competence on European policy, challenges and influence on Norway

Institution Project funded by RCNEurope in Transition

Project funded by Horizon 2020/ERA

NUPI EUNOR, small states in a time of global change. How does the crisis in Europe influence Norway

EUNPACKHorizon 2020 2016-2020Gap in European crisis response, interaction, resources

UiO ESOP center

European StrainsInteraction between politics, economicdevelopment and social change

Globalization, Institutions and theWelfare stateERA-NET NORFACE 2015-2018Interation trade, technology and walfarestate

UiO ARENA EuroDiv – Integration and divisjon –towards a segmented Europe

implications of the current European crisis for democracy and integration in a long-term perspective?

GLOBUS – Reconsidering European contributions to global justiceHORIZON 2020 – 2016-2020

PLATO - The Post-Crisis Legitimacy of the European Union (2017-2020)

From National funded research to Horizon 2020By the exampel of «Europe in Transition»

European initiatives in Social Sciences and Humanities with Norwegian participation

JPI URBAN EUROPE

JPI CULTURAL HERITAGE AND GLOBAL CHANGE

JPI DEMOGRAPHIC

NORFACE

https://www.norface.net/

HERA Joint Research Programme

http://heranet.info/hera-joint-research-programme

https://www.cessda.eu/

Horizon 2020. Results per organisation. Inclusive societies (societal challenge 6)

Research Council thematic programmes in SSH

UTENRIKS – foreign policies andinternationalrelations

NORGLOBAL - development

VAM – welfare, labour and migration

FINNUT – education

SAMRISK – societal security

SAMKUL – culture and society

International evaluation of humanities in Norway and White paper on humanities 2017

How different fields perform – according to evaluation panel

Nordic Languages and Linguistics are strong, benefiting from centres of excellence (SFF)

Nordic and Comparative Literature: variable quality but with high productivity

Modern and Classical Languages, Area Studies are large with English playing a big role, but other modern languages shrinking

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How different fields perform cont’d

History, Archaeology and Cultural Studies are variable in quality; some high points but often insufficient linkage to more general substantive or conceptual debates or methods found internationally

Philosophy of Mind, Language, Ethics, Epistemology and History of Philosophy show high quality

Media Studies research is growing fast; quality development is not so fast

Small specialist institutions in music and theology lack research culture

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Evaluation of social science institutes in 2017 and evaluation of social science in Norway 2018

EURAXESS.NO

Useful links for more information

http://h2020viz.vinnova.se/#/

https://www.euraxess.no/node/125917/

https://www.forskningsradet.no/prosjektbanken/#/Sprak=en