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Our research group is delighted to congratulate Professor Gunnar Andersson on this well-deserved achievement. His work stands out for its ability to connect innovation, leadership, sustainability, and learning in ways that are both conceptually strong and deeply practice-oriented. Through his research and educational development, Gunnar has shown how complex societal and organizational challenges can become arenas for co-creation, systems thinking, and transformative learning.

Our article Clustering Ambiguities: How Companies and Public Bodies Develop a Cluster is published in the International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning (iJAC) – ISSN: 1867-5565. 

In a chronicle in the local newspaper Fredrikstad Blad the Symposium Committee celebrates the organizations and individuals making the lighthouse project on environment, tourism and innovation a reality.

Thursday 10 and Friday 11 June was dedicated to the semester academic writing workshop. This semester IRG scholars went to Hvaler Gjestgiveri discussing and developing articles and manuscripts for publication. 

Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 June was dedicated to the semester academic writing workshop. This semester six scholars went to Ekenäs Hotel at Koster discussing and developing articles and manuscripts for publication. 

As part of the research group's mission, we made the joint project Creative Learning: A Practice-Oriented Bachelor’s Thesis.

The green shift is here and drives the new worklife and studies. Are we ready for the transformation?

IRG is part of a consortium applying for research funds at the DIKU student active learning program due June 8. The project proposed will take a distinctive Organization development (OD) approach, anchored in action research, developing sustainable tourism together with Visit Fredrikstad & Hvaler and building new learning arenas enabling student active learning. 

We are proud to announce our application and international venture Facilitating Resilience Embracing Islands Innovation Approaches (FREIIA) for better governance in the North Sea Region.  It is a 30 million NOK project over three years. We were invited to join because of our knowledge, skills and experience in entrepreneurship and student enterprise over more than a decade. The project strengthens our strategic targets supporting student active learning and research-based teaching.

The Innovation Research Group (IRG) was established in 2014 to conduct and disseminate high-quality research in innovation. To achieve its mission, IRG is committed to organise academic writing workshops and symposia. Special theme in the 9th academic writing workshop was manuscripts for international peer reviewed journals based on the Interreg FREIIA project.

This week, the Innovation Research Group (IRG) met on Hvaler for the 10th IRG Academic Writing Workshop, with a shared focus on developing manuscripts and project outlines connected to the Interreg ØKS Circulær omstilling i praksis project that we are setting up with our Danish friends. Following IRG’s established workshop format, the program combined short plenary sessions with longer, uninterrupted writing blocks, and a dedicated slot for presentation and discussion of manuscripts and project sketches.

The main goal of the project is to provide quality education in sustainability related subjects for tomorrow's business leaders in China and Norway, thereby making them better equipped for taking part in the emerging sustainable economy. The principal means of meeting this goal is twofold: (1) deliver a quality bachelor course in sustainability issues, where Chinese and Norwegian students work in teams, and (2) provide opportunities for selected master students to go on 3-month exchange programs between Norway and China. A further strategic goal is to build upon already established cooperative ties between our school Østfold University College (OCU) and our academic partners in china, Hebei GEO University (HGU) and Beijing Jiaotong University (BJU). Project coordinator is Søren Wenstøp, Søren, Associate Professor in Economics.