News

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  Kick-off Seminar presenting the new initiative 'Effect of Aid' – 28 May in Oslo

  RCN is pleased to invite interested parties to the SAS Radisson Scandinavia Hotel, the 28 May at 12:30 hrs.

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  Support for participation - female researchers from the South

  Norwegian R&D institutions, in all areas, can now apply for travel support and coverage of conference participation costs for female researchers from the South.

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  New ECONPOP posters

  The recent 7th annual PopPov conference, which was held in Oslo 23 – 26 January, included a poster session. Two of the ECONPOP projects participated in the session.

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  Results - INDNOR/NORGLOBAL call for proposals 2012

  The Research Council received 46 applications to the NORGLOBAL/INDNOR call. The applications have been assessed by three expert panels and additional individual experts. The Norglobal programme board was given the mandate to make the final decision on these applications.

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  Overwhelming interest for the 1st November conference

  187 participants registered for the conference Research for Development, held at Litteraturhuset in Oslo 1 November, far beyond the expectations of the organisers.

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  46 NORGLOBAL/INDNOR applications were received by the 17 October deadline

  A total of approx. NOK 40 million is available for this call, while the total budget request to the programme is NOK 221,3 million.

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  Results from the last NORGLOBAL Call

  The NORGLOBAL board received a total of 38 applications to the October 12 deadline. The call included the HUMPOL activity, the joint India/Women and Gender activity, the joint India/Globmek activity and the TaxCapDev.

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  The Society is the theme for the Norwegian Science Week 2012

  Invitation to an inspiration meeting 7 March ahead of the 2012 Norwegian Science Week (“Forskningsdagene”).
  Invitation goes to the Research Council’s administration, project managers/researchers, communication staff and others who take interest in Social Sciences and Humanities. The meeting will be held in Norwegian.
  

• Five new fact sheets published:

  Anti-corruption in the Western Balkan countries

  People in Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia distrust politicians, civil servants and people attached to the judiciary. Such attitudes are not necessarily the result of personal experience. ‘Because so many people assume that civil servants are corrupt, it is easy to behave accordingly,' says FAFO researcher Åse Berit Grødeland.

• Two books from Povpeace

  Two books have recently been published based on research funded through the “Poverty and peace” (POVPEACE) activity under the NORGLOBAL programme; One on fisheries, the other on oil and gas.