Social sciences and humanities in Norway A bird s-eye view Budapest February 15 2018 Bjorn T. Kjellemo
Long-Term Plan for Research and Higher Education Objectives: Enhance competitiveness and innovation Tackle major societal challenges Research communities of outstanding quality Adopted by the Parliament
Thematic priorities in the Long-Term Plan Seas and Oceans Climate, Environment and Renewable Energy Enabling Technologies Better and More Effective Public Services
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 Prosent 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Danmark Finland Norge Sverige 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
Norwegian Research and innovation system: Three performing sectors Higher education (HE) sector - Research institute sector - Commercial sector
TROMSØ BODØ TRONDHEIM BERGEN OSLO STAVANGER ÅS KRISTIANSAND
Norwegian Centres of Excellence within Social 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 the Judiciary 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 The Research Council of Norway has built Norwegian competence on European policy, challenges and influence on Norway Main thematics: Driving forces, trends and challenges in Europe s/eus political development Economic development, the Internal Marked and global competition Basic values under pressure EU foreign and security policy. Climate and energy challenges, the green transition
From National funded research to Horizon 2020 By the exampel of «Europe in Transition» Institution NUPI UiO ESOP center Project funded by RCN Europe in Transition EUNOR, small states in a time of global change. How does the crisis in Europe influence Norway European Strains Interaction between politics, economic development and social change UiO ARENA EuroDiv Integration and divisjon towards a segmented Europe implications of the current European crisis for democracy and integration in a longterm perspective? Project funded by Horizon 2020/ERA EUNPACK Horizon 2020 2016-2020 Gap in European crisis response, interaction, resources Globalization, Institutions and the Welfare state ERA-NET NORFACE 2015-2018 Interation trade, technology and walfare state GLOBUS Reconsidering European contributions to global justice HORIZON 2020 2016-2020 PLATO - The Post-Crisis Legitimacy of the European Union (2017-2020)
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
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Horizon 2020. Results per organisation. Inclusive societies (societal challenge 6)
Research Council thematic programmes in SSH UTENRIKS foreign policies andinternational relations 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 21
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 22
Evaluation of social science institutes in 2017 and evaluation of social science in Norway 2018
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