Yves Steinebach at the Department of Political Science and Ines Wagner at ARENA have received prestigious EU funding to investigate public administration and the digital and green transition.
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Andrea Joslyn Nightingale from The department of sociology and human geography has received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. This is the fourth prestigious Advanced Grant to The faculty of social sciences and accounts for four of UiO's five grants this year.
Helene Sjursen at ARENA and Sascha Frühholz at the Department of Psychology receive prestigious funding to explore the global role of EU and voice technology in artificial intelligence.
Andreas Moxnes from the Department of Economics and Vegard Skirbekk from the Department of Psychology each receive a prestigious Advanced Grant of 26 million NOK from the European Research Council (ERC). This constitutes a quarter of all Advanced Grants from ERC given to Norway this year.
Research infrastructure, researcher education, career support, and societal innovation. These are just some of the things characterizing Tore Nilssen’s years as the vice-dean for research at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Now it’s the end for the research dean, who is known for knocking on doors and talking to people.
The Fridtjof Nansen Awards for Younger Researchers are handed to two profiles from the SV Faculty. Tore Wig, who is a professor at the Department of Political Science, and Daniel Quintana, who is an associate professor at the Department of Psychology, are awarded this year's Fridtjof Nansen Awards for Younger Researchers: Wig in the category of humanities and social sciences, and Quintana in the category of science and medicine.