Vestlandsforsking presented 3 papers at the Second Nordic Challenge conference arranged by the Centre for Nordic Studies (CENS), University of Helsinki, running between 7‒9 March 2018.
We have successfully completed the first two-days LeMO project board workshop on “Setting the Stage on Big Data in Transportation” at Frankfurt Big Data Lab from 22-23 January 2018.
New Book by Otto Andersen.
Energy technologies in the future must be based on renewable sources of energy and they must be sustainable. This book provides insight into unintended negative impacts and how they can be avoided.
Vestforsk arranges the fifth seminar on ISO 15926 and Semantic Technologies in Sogndal these days. Invited researchers and practitioners in the field meet to present and discuss different issues under this year's topic Big Data. ISO 15926 is an ISO standard for semantic information modelling in oil and gas.
Vestlandsforsking has been awared funding for its research on ICT and minority integration in Norway by the Rådet for anvendt medieforskning (RAM) program of the Medietilsynet.
A research based committee was appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday 7th of Januar. The committee's mandate is to evaluate all sides of the EEA Agreement and other agreements between Norway and EU and look at the over all effects on the Norwegian society. Research Manager Ivar Petter Grøtte from Vestlandsforsking will be one of three secretaries for the committee in its two year long work.
Robert Engels, who holds a position as a scientific adviser at Vestlandsforsking, has two great passions: semantic technologies and motorbikes. He now tries to combine these two in his Linux-enabled motorbike!
Vestlandsforsking is engaged by the Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI) to develop a strategy for renewal of the personal public service portal Mypage and the information portal www.norge.no together with the consulting company Bouvet AS.
KS arrangerte 2. juni 2008 seminar i Oslo i samband med prosjektet "Storm, skred, flom og oljeutslipp - ansvar, myndighet, roller og finansiering av sikringstiltak og skadeforebyggende arbeid"