The Research Council, the Norwegian Cancer Society and Trond Mohn Foundation will organize a seminar series in the period 2020–2022. We hope to contribute to an academic COVID-19 community with sharing of best practice, inspire communication of the research results between the project leaders and the public, lower the threshold for interdisciplinary cooperation and facilitate dialogue with relevant people of the authorities.

Seminar format:

Each seminar has an overall theme, and eight investigators from the funded projects present their research at each seminar. The program will include the following elements:
1.      A brief presentation of the project 
2.      Breakout sessions were the projects and the results will be discussed in dialogue with other researchers.
3.      Dialog between principal investigators and a representative from the authorities.  

The target audience for the seminar is the principal investigators of the other projects and their research teams and partners, i.e. a broad group of professionals sharing your expertise.  

All principal investigators will be invited to present their project in one of the seminars.

Closing Conference

Sept 8 2022: Title: TBD 

John-Arne Røttingen, photo: UD

John-Arne Røttingen, Norway’s global health ambassador, will attend the seminar 

The seminars will be held on the following dates:

Seminar 1 – December 17 2020 Public health response and social countermeasures
Seminar 2 – March 24 2021 Insight in medical research and economic consequences
Seminar 3 – September 29 2021 Individual and societal needs during a pandemic: lessons learned?
Seminar 4 – January 18 2022 Pandemic Management: adaptation and resilience in response to an outbreak

Concluding conference: September 8 2022

The active projects

The projects are  within the topics Democracy, administration and renewal, Global development and international relations, Economic and Labour-market Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Norwegian Business and Working Life and innovation projects with the topics Industry and services.

Short project descriptions and contact information for all the project can be found here.

For questions about the seminars:

The Research Counsil of Norway: Simona Grasso  phone + 463 78 332                       Trond Mohn Foundation: Oddveig Åsheim , phone + 47 41 66 31 64

Relevant articles/internet pages