Today, Dr Gunnar Andersson had the privilege of representing the Innovation Research Group as one of four panelists during the Annual PhD Day at Østfold University College. Our discussion focused on interdisciplinary research—its meanings, challenges, and opportunities across different fields.
The IRG Symposium 2023 on Facilitating Resilience Embracing Islands Innovation is supported with funding from the Vice-Dean of Research and in collaboration with the Interreg FREIIA project, and the Strømtangen Lighthouse Workshop on Environment, Tourism and Innovation.
The IRG Symposium 2024 on Facilitating Resilience Embracing Islands Innovation is supported with funding from the Vice-Dean of Research and in collaboration with the Interreg FREIIA project, and the Strømtangen Lighthouse Workshop on Environment, Tourism and Innovation.
På arbeidsmøte i forskningsgruppa ble vi enige om en satsing på publiseringer fra Interreg FREIIA våren 2025, gjennom en serie reviews og en avsluttende skrivesamling i mai.
IRG is part of the consortium in The Greenbizz project, an EU funded project supported by Interreg. Through research of green business models, the project seeks to blur borders and work across these to support green business model innovation in start-ups and SMB's in the region.
IRG joining forces with the other research groups part of the new Institute of economy, innovation and society and the new arena for discussing research in the R&D lunch seminar.
First out was Matthew Lynch that Friday 21. may presented the article Merging Systems Thinking with Entrepreneurship: Shifting Students’ Mindsets towards Crafting a More Sustainable Future just published in the journal Sustainability and funded by the Interreg Greenbizz project.
A new proposal submitted to the Research Council of Norway aims to develop and test approaches for improving collaboration around children and young people at risk of becoming NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training). CoSim Lab brings together researchers, public-sector partners and practitioners in a broad interdisciplinary collaboration.
Hvert år i uke 38 blir Strømtangen Fyr et ekte miljøfyrtårn. Da inviterer Høgskolen i Østfold, Miljøstiftelsen Elv og Hav og Visit Fredrikstad og Hvaler til diskusjoner i krysningsfeltet innovasjon, miljø og reiseliv. I år er det holdbart reiseliv, Oslofjordens utfordringer og naturrestaurering i praksis som er de viktige temaene vi legger på bordet.
Interreg Greenbizz and Interreg FREIIA researchers Gunnar Andersson, Bjørn Gitle Hauge, Maryna Z. Solesvik, Søren Kerndrup and Lars Gunnar Furelid Tellnes published Linking Life Cycle Thinking and Green Business Model - A case study from the Interreg Greenbizz project at the 16th Biennial International Conference on Ecobalance in Sendai, Japan.
Gunnar Andersson, Matthew P. J. Lynch, Frode Ramstad Johansen, Mona Jerndahl Fineide & Douglas Martin (all members of IRG) published the article Exploring perceptions of Lean in the public sector in the Journal Public Money & Management December 2020.
Matthew P. J. Lynch, Gunnar Andersson & Frode Ramstad Johansen (all members of IRG) published the article Merging Systems Thinking with Entrepreneurship: Shifting Students’ Mindsets towards Crafting a More Sustainable Future in the Journal Sustainability April 2021.
Frode Ramstad Johansen, Søren Kerndrup, Gunnar Andersson & Synnøve Rubach (all members of IRG) published the article A view of clustering as emergent and innovative processes in the Journal Industry and Innovation (Impact factor 3.157) January 2020.
First year students Eskil and Tom are prototyping the future student housing in the Makerspace on campus. "Glomma Park is our vision for future student housing". The project is part of the exam in the course Creativity and entrepreneurship".
Irmin, Erik, Anders og Trym have started prototyping the Lean Construction Big Room for the development project Cicignon Park in Fredrikstad part of their Bachelor thesis. What started as ideas and paper prototypes in the Entrepreneurial MakerSpace are developing into full-size prototypes at Cicignon Park using Design thinking.
How do we build relevant collaboration and alliances between students, researchers, industry, public and other sectors? Minister Iselin Nybø visited HUB 42 - Fredrikstad Living Lab for Tourism and Innovation to learn from our project based learning initiative merging teaching and research.
Trude Tonholm presented the paper Preparing Social Work Students for Workplace Violence: Insights from a Norwegian Study at ICERI 2025. Social workers often face challenging and sometimes dangerous situations in their professional lives. A recent study at Østfold University College explores how future social workers perceive the risk of violence and how education can better prepare them for these realities.
We use big EU funded international research projects as the motor in green transitions in collaboration with industry and students. We shared the mindset and specifics based on our experiences from Interreg Greenbizz, EAA FETREC and Interreg FREIIA. We also invited partners to take part in the Interreg Greenbizz 2 that we have started to build.
IRG and Interreg FREIIA researchers presented the short paper Fostering Resilience and Innovation in Island Communities - Insights from the Interreg FREIIA project (Andersson, Hauge) at the 7TH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, May 29, 2025, in Tbilisi, Georgia (online presentation)
Trustworthy AI Lab researchers Pedro Kringen and Frode Ramstad Johansen joined the discussion in the national health webinars series on AI.
In the IRG meeting January 6 we planned and discussed research initiatives and projects spring 2022.
Agenda:
1) Status update IRG
2) Presenting our phd fellows in Greenbizz
3) Articles in progress
4) Projects in progress
5) Planning this semester's writing seminar
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