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Wednesday 28 November members of IRG and Hackstad joined forces in a workshop on what a national arena for product development could look like and the role to take in the national innovation eco system. Ida from Hackstad lead us thru the process and hopefully we made som contributions to the Hackstad center to come. We welcome a new arena and partner in innovation to Østfold. Ivar, Per, Hans Gerhard and Ida from Hackstad and June, Matt and Gunnar from IRG took part in the workshop.

Thursday 29 and Friday 30 November was dedicated to the semester academic writing workshop. This semester 6 scholars went to Rømskog Spa & Resort discussing and developing articles and manuscripts for publication. 

Our entrepreneurship ambassador and PhD fellow Matthew Lynch explores world class leaders in entrepreneurship education visiting Babson College in the US with the NORSI network of PhD students. It is part of our efforts to develop our own infrastructure in HUB42, the Beelab and the entrepreneurial makerspace.

IRG is central in developing a flexible study program module (5 ECTS) on how to identify and plan operational improvements together with NMBU and Fagskolen Østfold. The initiative is supported by  Kompetanse Norge for Viken Technology Cluster 4.0.

God utdanningskvalitet er for oss resultatet av et lagarbeid mellom studenter, fagansatte og samarbeidspartnere utenfor høgskolen, der undervisning, forskning og regional utvikling koples sammen.

The Trustworthy AI Lab is an interdisciplinary and international research community to evaluate and discuss the mindful use of artificial intelligence in innovation projects, as part of the Z-Inspection® Initiative.

The Trustworthy AI Lab at Ostfold University College participated in the recently concluded Second World Z-Inspection Conference.

Recently, our Stipendiat Matthew has been in Stromstad holding a workshop for all the teachers from Young enterprise Norway. The workshop was a chance for the 75 teachers from around Norway to meet up and share insights, and gain fresh perspectives on how best to teach entrepreneurship.

PhD-fellow Matt Lynch spread knowledge on practical entrepreneurship at the teachers seminar on entrepreneurship at Laholmen Hotel in Strømstad organized by Young enterprise Østfold.

The Research council of Norway has published calls for proposals. Read the note from the R&D Administration Director Trine Eker Christoffersen on the new format for proposals this year. 

Industry, technologists and innovators came together to explore real life challenges in the Østfold Energy sprint 2021 April 2021.

We develop our infrastructure working with the best. Learning from Troll Labs and the leading edge of prototyping developing the Entrepreneurial maker-space on campus for our students and researchers.

The IRG Symposium 2022 on Value Creation and Research in the Green Shift is supported by the Interreg Greenbizz project on location at Strømtangen lighthouse part of The lighthouse workshop for environment, tourism and innovation, and the national Forskningsdagene.

The symposium brings together stakeholders for a many-faceted exploration of multi business model innovation. The concept of multi business model innovation is based on the idea of business model eco-systems. We invite discussions om multi business model innovation and practical implications. Symposium report published September 23.

The IRG symposium linked stakeholders for a many-faceted exploration of emergence and how what takes place inside our head plays a critical role in forming our future. The Symposium is supported by the Lighthouse workshop on environment, tourism and innovation and part of Forskningsdagene 2020 ved HiØ

The report (hiof only) from the 2019 IRG Symposium is published. The symposium linked stakeholders for a many-faceted exploration of circular economy inviting discussions om circular economy from different perspectives, theoretical positions and practices. 

The purpose with the writing seminars are to help researchers to bring research to articles (level 1 and 2). This year's theme is State of the art research on green business models.  The IRG Writing Seminar 2022 is made with the co-operation and assistance of the Greenbizz project.

We are proud to announce that our international venture Facilitating Resilience Embracing Islands Innovation Approaches (FREIIA) for better governance in the North Sea Region is accepted.  It is a 30 million NOK project over three years.

Drawing on a survey of higher education professionals, mostly from Nordic countries, researchers from our Trustworthy AI Lab collaborated on the article "Using LLMs without trust: the adoption–trust paradox as institutional governance failure in academic ecosystems," published in AI & Society.

PhD fellow Matthew Lynch explores the future of entrepreneurship education in the ENGAGE project at Stanford.