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This week the Green Office celebrates its one year anniversary. The students from the Green Office share some thoughts on the first year and their plans for the future.

The very first edition of The Future of Energy is Green and Digital - the Oslo Science City Arena series of conferences on future energy systems - brought together researchers, businesses, politicians, and the public sector to discuss the energy solutions needed in Norway and Europe.

This year¡¯s Norwegian Research School in Renewable Energy (NorRen) took place from August 21 ¨C 25 in the serene surroundings of Langesund Bad.

We congratulate Felix Stein on securing funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for research on reparations as a response to global development challenges.

The University of Oslo aims to halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. In 2022, the total emissions were reduced by eight percent compared to 2018. 

National summer school for PhD students on green industrial transformation. Place: Langesund bad, August 20-25.

More information: NorRen.no

As part of the national SDG Conference, UiO:Energy and Environment hosted a student pitch to kick off the conference - an informal contest where students presented their research on energy, environment and sustainability to other students and fellow academics.

UiO:Energy and Environment will fund a number of summer research projects within the field of energy, climate and environment. Students currently enrolled in their last year of a bachelor program, a master program or a relevant professional degree program at the University of Oslo are eligible to apply. 

-Different teaching methods, less mathematics and physics, great guest lecturers and lots of communication between the scientific staff and the students. Joyful!

The UiO Growth House, dScience ¨C Centre for Computational and Data Science, UiO:Life Science and UiO:Energy and Environment are now co-located in Oslo Science Park. ¡®Now the units can work more closely together and draw on each other's expertise as well as extract synergies from each other. This gives UiO the opportunity to develop its strategic initiatives and strengthen the innovation thinking¡¯, says UiO's vice-rector for research and innovation Per Morten Sandset.

UiO:Energy and Environment would like to invite master students and PhDs working on energy, environment and sustainability, to present their research projects at the SDG Conference on February 8, 2023.

The new board of UiO:Energy and Environment had its first board meeting on December 15th. The board decided to continue the initiative's open funding schemes within internationalization, research and education, ensuring that there will be no interruption in these funding mechanisms.

HYDROGENi and HyValue officially launched their activities at a kick-off event in Oslo on October 5th. They are both new centres for environment-friendly energy research (FME) which will help strengthen Norway's research efforts on hydrogen and ammonia over the next eight years. UiO is a key partner in FME HYDROGENi.

This year the UiO and NTNU in collaboration with FME MoZEES (Mobility Zero Emission Energy Systems) and FME NTRANS (Norwegian Centre for Energy Transition Strategies) gathered PhD-students working within the field of energy to the 2022 interdisciplinary NorRen Summer School.

Mar Maller Roig and Rabail Badar Abbasi are the first two interns that the University of Oslo has welcomed through the EU research network ALISTORE ERI. The two are in their final semester before submitting their master theses on materials for rechargeable batteries.  

UiO is a key partner in a new centre for environment-friendly energy research (FME) which will help strengthen Norway's research efforts on hydrogen over the next eight years.

UiO?s strategic priority area UiO:Energy will be continued from 2023 to 2027, with a wider scope which also includes climate and the environment. This was approved by the University Board today.

Want to gain research experience? Apply for a UiO:Energy summer research project!

UiO:Energy?s call for new Thematic Research Groups have resulted in applications involving researchers from all together four faculties and Centre for Development and the Environment.

UiO:Energy would like to invite UiO master students and PhDs, working on energy and sustainability, to present their research projects at the UiO:Energy Forum 2021 on November 24.

One of three thematic research groups funded by UiO:Energy was recently launched. Circular Energy is focusing on the role of maintenance and repair of digitalisation technologies in reducing climate emissions.

This year the University of Bergen, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Oslo gathered 29 PhD-students working within the field of energy to the 2021 interdisciplinary NorRen Summer School.

A specific 2030 climate target and the establishment of an Oslo Sustainability Centre at Lower Blindern are some of the proposals in the draft for a new and comprehensive climate and environmental strategy for UiO. Students and staff are invited to provide input.

For the very first time, UiO:Energy has announced funding for convergence environments ¨C interdisciplinary research groups that are to address major societal challenges related to renewable energy and a sustainable energy transformation.