Research

The Kavli Prize Nanoscience Committee's final meeting for 2012 prize winner in Nanoscience will take place in Beijing 17-18 April 2012. Read more

On 28-29 November 2011, twenty experts gathered at a workshop jointly organised by the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development (CASTED), the Institute for Applied International Studies (FAFO) and Statistics Norway. Read more

The Norway-China Interdisciplinary Network within Health, Welfare, Disability and Rehabilitation met in late October 2011 for a new round of discussions. Read more

A Norwegian delegation of scientists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the Norwegian research foundation SINTEF and the solar energy industries of Norway met their colleagues in Shanghai on 14-17 November 2011 for a joint scientific workshop on solar energy. They also visited one of China’s largest solar cell factories and Shanghai Jiaotong University. Read more

October 28th-30th 2011 a conference on “Surmounting Middle Income Trap –China in the Next Decade” organized by China Institute for Reform and Development (CIRD) together with Deutsche Gesellshaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, China International Centre for Economic and Technical Exchange and United Nations Development Programme was held in Haikou, Hainan Province. Read more

Annual meeting of Nansen-Zhu International Research Center (NZC) was held at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences on November 23rd ,2011. Read more

On 9 – 11 October more than 30 scientists gathered in a seminar hosted by The Nordic Centre at Fudan University, Shanghai. The agenda was to discuss the Nordic Welfare Model and its possible relevance to a Chinese or South East Asian Model. Read more

In a ceremony held at Beijing Normal University on Tuesday 11 October, the release of professors Stephen von Tetzchner and Harald Martinsen’s book on how to help autistic children communicate was celebrated. The authors have long been working on this important issue with health professionals in China, and they hope that the publishing of this book in Chinese will better equip professionals and... Read more

A delegation of 13 people from Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) led by Prof. Wang Ruzhu, Vice Dean of the Power and Energy Engineering School, visited Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Sept. 18-22, 2011. Read more

07 September 2011, Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research (Bioforsk) and Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (HAAS) celebrated the opening of their new joint research centre in Harbin, China. Read more

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2011 to innovative mathematician John Milnor of Stony Brook University, New York. Read more

40 Norwegian and Chinese scientists were gathered in Hangzhou 6 – 8 March 2011 to discuss how to contribute to and develop a joint plan for future cooperation on improving carbon capture and storage. Following this workshop comes an array of activities to create common platforms for increased cooperation between Chinese and Norwegian research institutions. Read more

Norwegian research center co-operates with acclaimed Chinese science institution in the development of a new system for air quality forecasting. Read more

After several decades holding key positions in Norwegian research policy Dr Kveseth has moved to China where she is Norway’s first Counsellor for Science and Higher Education. The positive lady has taken on her new role with enthusiasm and respect for the many tasks awaiting her. Read more

Professor Ola M. Johannessen, executive chairman of the Board of the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Bergen, Norway was appointed ”Visiting Professor for Senior International Scientists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)” for 2010. Read more

The Norwegian Polar Institute and the Polar Research Institute of China signed has signed a cooperation agreement. Read more

The Research Council is Norway's official body for the development and implementation of national research strategy. Read more

On November 30 – December 1, a Sino-Norwegian workshop on Environmental Research Cooperation was held in Beijing. Read more

Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2009 to the Russian-French mathematician Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (65) for “his revolutionary contributions to geometry”. Read more

29/09/2006: The Norwegian research foundation FAFO represented by head of research Jon Pedersen, and scientist Kristin Dalen, in cooperation with the National Research Center for Science and Technology for Development (NRCSTD) launched on 27 September a report on living conditions in Western China. The launch took place in the Great Hall of People in Beijing.   Read more