Research projects

The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) and the Centre for Human Rights (CHR) at the University of Pretoria recently received funding for a new collaborative project, ¡°Fostering research-based education through academic mobility and measuring the domestic impact of core human rights treaties¡±.

Mapping the universe from the Milky Way to the Big Bang

This project examines two questions related to resources exploitation between South Africa and Norway: Electricity market law and mining/mineral law.

Pathways to social transformation (CLIMWAYS)

Daniel Arnesson examines in his PhD project the development of renewable energy certificate (REC) markets in South Africa, India and Europe, with a focus on the implementation of these markets in Sweden and Norway (known as Guarantees of Origin and electricity Certificate markets in the two Nordic countries).

Since its inception, the European Union has proclaimed an ambition to promote justice at the global level. But what precisely is the EU¡¯s contribution to global justice? And what could a just foreign policy look like?

All elements in the Universe, except for the lightest ones, are made in stars.

But the heavier elements, like gold, lead and uranium, are not. How are they made?