First NORPART meeting

Another meeting I attended today, with two department colleagues, was a first planning meeting on our new NORPART project "Cuban and Nordic welfare" (effective from January 1st 2019).

NORPART application "Cuban and Nordic welfare" successful

Yesterday we got to know that our project application "Cuban and Nordic welfare" will be funded by Norwegian Partnership Programme for Global Academic Cooperation (NORPART), with some 5 million crowns, for the period 2019-2023. This is first of all a student exchange and educational collaboration project. The project involves collaboration between University of Stavanger´s Department of social studies and University of Havana´s Department of sociology.

Our project is the only one with a partner in Latin America, and one of two projects awarded to University of Stavanger.

I took active part in the application work, and am one of 12 members of the project´s "Academic Collaboration Group" (7 from Stavanger) and one of 5 members (3 from Stavanger) in the project´s Steering Committee.

NORPART application submitted

This morning we have submitted our NORPART application to Norwegian Center for International Cooperation in Education (SIU). Some 22 pages of application text. Siv Oltedal is prospective Project leader, with Angela Peña as Cuban Project leader and me among the Steering Committee members (totaling 5members).

NORPART application work and meeting

Today I have attended a meeting concerning our NORPART application (collaboration with University of Havana). The application is due this Thursday. I made some text work this weekend, more is to come the next few days.

NORPART meeting

Today I attended a meeting with two colleagues in relation to our NORPART application which is due by end of May.

Research mobility meeting

This morning I attended a meeting with colleagues and representatives for the research department and international office at University of Stavanger, to discuss mobility application options.

COST GroupHouseNet call for applications for research exchange

The COST action GroupHouseNet - Synergy for preventing damaging behaviour in group housed pigs and chickens - has issued a call for applications for research exchange. The deadline is May 31st. The call for applications is available at the webpage animalwelfarenorway.com.