Research

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

24/11/2006: Sino- Norwegian Centre for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (SINCIERE) marked its opening on 22nd and 23rd November in Beijing. Read more

18/10/2006: Norwegian palaeontologists have made a sensational discovery, currently drawing much international attention. A complete skeleton of a Pliosaurus, one of the largest-ever marine predators, has been discovered on Svalbard. These gigantic creatures, comparable in many respects to the Tyrannosaurus Rex, lived in the ocean 150 million years ago. Read more

The Polar Research Collaboration between China and Norway began in 1997, and  the Polar Research Institute of China is today cooperating with three Norwegian institutions: University of Tromsø, University of Oslo and the University Centre in Svalbard. Read more