We continuous develop our initiatives on the green transition. Latest initiative is our application for funding of Fostering Energy Transition and Resilience Capacity on Islands together with our Croatian partners in Cres.
Bestill en forsker! Som del av Forskningsdagene 2025 tilbyr Høgskolen i Østfold smakebiter av forskning til næringsliv og offentlige aktører under Forskningsdagene. IRG stilte med Gunnar Andersson og Lean-workshopen: Hvordan kan du tilrettelegge for læring og utvikling på arbeidsplassen på fagdagen for staben ved Sykehuset Østfold fredag 10. oktober.
We do international EU funded research projects to build relevance in research and teaching. We use these projects to assure that we work along relevant global trends, with high ranking universities internationally on what is imoportant for regional industry and public partners. An effect (or rather 9.590.938 reasons) of this strategy is resources made available for developing our research and teaching further :-)
Can research help make the Oslofjord cleaner? Professor Gunnar Andersson discussed this question with pupils in Askim. He used examples from The Pilot project on ghost fishing gear and marine litter. The project brings together research, students, fisheries and local government.
GG Gruppen AS står bak utviklingen av Viken Park, et nytt næringsområde for plasskrevende virksomhet som skal bygges i Fredrikstad kommune. Det jobbes aktivt for å legge til rette for sirkulær økonomi allerede fra reguleringsfasen av området. Ett av flere tiltak for å nå dette målet er forprosjektet Kartleggingsverktøy for industriell symbiose, som har blitt tildelt støtte fra FORREGION Viken. HiØ er sentrale i kartlegging av relevante case og litteratur gjennom IRG ved Gunnar Andersson, Frode Ramstad Johansen, Søren Kerndrup og fagbibliotekar Tore Olavson Buarøy.
We are pleased to introduce Trude Tonholm, PhD candidate in Digitalization and Society and University Lecturer at the Department of Welfare, Leadership and Organization at Høgskolen i Østfold.
The IRG Symposium 2019 15-16 October on Circular economy was part of the Lighthouse workshop on environment, innovation and tourism in collaboration with Visit Fredrikstad & Hvaler, the Visiting center of Ytre Hvaler National Park, Friends of the Earth Norway and the Innovation and project management program at Østfold University College.
Trustworthy AI lab in Østfold University College met with the BITS team, key players in Norway's banking and financial infrastructure.
Enabling Open Innovation through Self-Organized Business Models by John-Erik Andreassen* and Gunnar Andersson is published in the Proceedings from the XXXVI ISPIM Innovation Conference held in Bergen 15 - 18 June 2025.
IRG is part of a consortium applying for research funds at the DIKU employability program. The project proposed will use the “Predictive Control Strategy to Forecast Employability” developed at our project partners at U-PEC, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (https://www.u-pec.fr/). The ambition is to use the results to develop the employability from engineering and innovation programs at HiØ.
We are pleased to welcome artist Ellen "Nutz" Knutsen to the Innovation Research Group. Ellen has extensive experience in design and possesses a language of form that covers a wide range and consists of many types of materials. She will strengthen our research capacity in arts and development.
We are pleased to welcome Sten Helberg to the Innovation Research Group. Idea Maker and Project Leader, and the man who came up with the idea for Kystlotteriet og Marin omsorg som del av organisasjonen Elv og hav. Nå senest kjent gjennom Trebåtkollektivet.
IRG og forskere ved Høgskolen i Østfold har etablert landets første Trustworthy AI-lab og blir dermed del av et globalt, akademisk nettverk som skal vurdere om prosjekter som innebærer bruk av kunstig intelligens er forsvarlige.
29 September the central R&D unit published our article on participative learning and employability based on the experiences from the Lighthouse project 2020.
Innovation and project management students Erik L. Thoresen, Trym Leirvåg, Irmin Ibrahimovic og Anders Klevstrand Tangen publish a chronicle in the newspaper Fredrikstad Blad June 17 discussing results from the bachelor project on Lean construction at Cicignon Park.
Sustaining staff and student mobility and introducing Lean mindset for students at Université Paris XII (UPEC) - Faculty of MCI and Faculty of AEI.
Closer to the world! Closer to research! Two days with design thinking based and action oriented research on location at Besøkssenter Ytre Hvaler nasjonalpark Storesand.
Frode Ramstad Johansen from the Innovation research group and Therese Forstervold Mathisen at Faculty of Health, Welfare and Organisation published the article The Impact of Smartphone Apps Designed to Reduce Food Waste on Improving Healthy Eating, Financial Expenses and Personal Food Waste: Crossover Pilot Intervention Trial Studying Students’ User Experiences in JMIR Formative Research (doi: 10.2196/38520). September 2022.
Our research group is delighted to congratulate Professor Matthew Lynch on this well-deserved achievement. His pioneering work in fostering an entrepreneurial mindset and emphasizing entrepreneurship as a practice has made a significant impact both in academia and beyond. Through his dedication, Matthew has demonstrated how theory and practice can be combined to create real value and shape the innovators of tomorrow.
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