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Added value through Nordic Cooperation: Nordic Centres

Senior adviser Susanna Sepponen Centre of Excellence Programmes 27.11.2012

Added value through Cooperation: Centres of Excellence

Senior adviser Susanna Sepponen Programmes Annual Seminar 27.11.2012 Academy of Finland

NordForsk is a platform for joint Nordic researc development in the Nordic countries. It was established by the Nordic Council of Mi governmental cooperation between the Nor The aim of the organisation is to facilitate research when this adds value to work being conducted Its main stakeholders are the national resear five Nordic Countries. Basic funding is provided by the Nordic Council of Mi MEUR) and additional funding by stakeholders, especi Councils in the different countries. c research and research policy dic Council of Ministers – the forum for e Nordic countries – in 2005. tate cooperation in all fields of

• rk being conducted nationally.

are the national research financing bodies in the ded by the Nordic Council of Ministers (around 15 takeholders, especially the Research

Programme in Global Change 2003 Programme in Molecular Medicine 2004 Programme in Humanities and Social Programme in Welfare Research 2007 Programme on Food, Nutrition and Health 2007 2003-2007 2004-2008 Social Sciences 2005-2010 Research 2007-2012 and Health 2007-2012

NordForsk’s main instrument for Established within large-scale joint Nordic Top-level Research Initiativ

• n Climate, Energy and the

Nordic eScience Globalisation Education for Tomorrow: Joint N research and dissemination New Nordic Joint Programme instrument for supporting research joint Nordic programmes Research Initiative the Environment Globalisation Initiative NeGI : Joint Nordic initiative on educational dissemination Programme on Health and Welfare

Aims

Nordic Centres of Excellence are e strengthen cooperation between researchers, research groups and within areas of priority for the Nordi Nordic Centres of Excellence add value to done in the countries and increase the impact Nordic research in Europe and worl lence are established to strengthen cooperation between outstanding research groups and research institutions for the Nordic countries. add value to research increase the impact of Nordic research in Europe and worldwide.

an outstanding, innovative and efficient environment with a joint research agenda joint management coordinated researcher training coordinated communication research infrastructure collabo Institutional commitment from at lea International cooperation outside Nor and efficient multi-site or single-site research training

• ordinated communication

ure collaboration mitment from at least three Nordic countries International cooperation outside Nordic countries encouraged

• Status and funding usually for fiv
• Nordic funding goes to Nordic research
• utlined in the proposal
• Levels of Nordic funding vary, usually betw

MEUR per year

• National funding and in kind contributions

for five years funding goes to Nordic research cooperation, as vary, usually between 0.5-1 funding and in kind contributions essential

• Established within large-scale Nordic joint

programmes on prioritized topics, such as grand societal challenges

• Based on open calls and peer

excellence, evaluated according to Excellence of research plan, people, and environment

• Flexible scheme with budget evaluation r

fixed funding rules; focus on expected results and added value through Nordic cooperation scale Nordic joint itized topics, such as grand ased on open calls and peer review of scientific according to Excellence of research plan, people, and environment lexible scheme with budget evaluation replacing n expected results and ic cooperation

New knowledge through scientific results New cooperation platforms: joint use and establishment of research infrastructures training of new generation researchers cooperation with knowledge users in different sectors of society Increased researcher mobility w between regions; new work opportunities ledge through scientific results

• int use and establishment of research infrastructures

w generation researchers ledge users in different sectors of society researcher mobility within the Nordic region and

• rk opportunities

Case: TRI Source: DAMVAD, 2011

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The Top-level Research Initiative within Climate, Energy and the Environment level Research Initiative Climate, Energy and the

Participating institutions:

• University of Helsinki
• Finnish Meteorological Institute
• University of Eastern Finland
• University of Stockholm
• University of Uppsala
• University of Gothenburg
• Lund University
• University of Copenhagen
• Aarhus University
• University of Oslo

NCoE CRAICC

• Cryosphere-Atmosphere Interactions

in a Changing Arctic Climate

focuses on the role of s and their links to cryospheric associated human activities mechanisms acting on the Arctic climate

• Norwegian Polar Institute
• Norwegian Meteorological Institute
• Norwegian Institute for Air Research
• Centre for International Climate and

Environmental Research (CICERO)

• Institute of Earth Sciences – University of

Iceland. Project leader: Professor Markku Kulmala,

tmosphere Interactions rctic Climate

es on the role of short-lived pollutants and aerosol-cloud interactions

• spheric changes; including the roles of society and

iated human activities as part of the interactions and feedback acting on the Arctic climate system

NCoE SVALI

• Stability and V

studies changes in land Atlantic area; the consequences and ocean circulat ticipating institutions: Norwegian Polar Institute

• CSC - IT Centre for Science Ltd

University of Copenhagen Centre for Ice and Climate NBI Danish Meteorological Institute

• DTU – Space
• GEUS

Uppsala University Norwegian University of Life Sciences University of Oslo

• UNIS - University Centre in Svalbard
• Institut
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LI Stability and Variations of Arctic Land Ice

studies changes in land ice volume in the Arctic and North- Atlantic area; the consequences of these changes for sea level and ocean circulation; and the implications for society

• Finnish Meteorological Institute
• Icelandic Meteorological Office
• Institute of Earth Sciences - University of Iceland
• University of Lapland
• Climate Research Centre in Greenland
• Norwegian Water Resources and Energy

Administration

• University of Stockholm.

Project leader: Professor Jon Ove Hagen, University of Oslo, Norway

Participating institutions:

• Lund University
• University of Helsinki
• University of Eastern Finland
• Stockholm University
• the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)
• Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological

Institute

NCoE DEFROST

• Impacts of a changing cry

climate feedbacks from permafrost, snow and ice

Seeks to understand how changes influence the ecosystem/geospheric bridging existing gaps between clima Arctic ecosystem science. drological

• Aarhus University
• Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
• SMHI
• Danish Meteorological Institute.

Project leader: Professor Torben R. Christensen, Lund University, Sweden.

• f a changing cryosphere: depicting ecosystem

feedbacks from permafrost, snow and ice

erstand how changes in the cryosphere caused by climate change em/geospheric processes which directly affect climate; bridging existing gaps between climate modelling, cryospheric science, and Arctic ecosystem science.

NCoE NORD-ST

• Nordic Strategic

Pursuing innovative science, sound economic analysis and effec communication, the goal to design and impleme

• Norwegian

STAR Nordic Strategic Adaptation Research

Pursuing innovative science, sound economic analysis and effective the goal of NORD-STAR is to enable Nordic stakeholders design and implement successful adaptation policy and practice. Participating institutions

• Aalto University (FI
• Aarhus University (DK)
• Chalmers University of Technology (SE)
• Linköping University (SE)
• Norwegian School of Economics and

Business Administration (NHH)

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
• Stockholm Environment institute (SEI)
• ProjectZero (DK)
• University of Iceland (IS)

Project leader: Professor Michael Goodsite Aarhus University, Denmark

NCoE NorMER Marine Ecosystems and Resources u

brings together the expertise countries, and several and multidisciplinary research st management consequences throughout the Nordic region.

and Resources under Climate Change

brings together the expertise of leading research groups from all Nordic countries, and several North American institutions, to implement a collective multidisciplinary research strategy to explore the biological, economic, and ent consequences of global climate change on fisheries resourc he Nordic region. Participating institutions

• University of Oslo (NO
• Stockholm Resilience Centre/Stockholm University
• Technical University of Denmark (
• Åbo Akademi University
• University of Bergen (
• University of the Faroe Islands
• University of Iceland (IS)
• University of Helsink
• Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SE)
• Greenland Institute of Natural Resources

Project leader: Professor Nils Christian Stenseth University of Oslo, Nor

NCoE Tundra

• How to preserve the

aims to find methods also studies the conditions f

• f reindeer herding and direc

preservation of open landscapes

erve the Tundra in a warming climate

aims to find methods to preserve arctic-alpine biota in a warmer climate. It he conditions for maintaining the economic and cultural viability ding and direct land use in order to contribute to the f open landscapes suitable for arctic-alpine biota Participating institutions

• University of Turk
• University of Umeå
• Finnmark University College
• University of Tromsø
• Norut - Northern Research Institute Arctic Center (F
• Finnish Meteorological Institut
• Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
• University of Oulu

Project l Professor Lauri Oksanen, Finnmark University Colle and University of T

new Nordic platform for cooperation results by succesful NCoE potential for broader international coop form for cooperation succesful NCoE cooperation potential for broader international cooperation

Future prospectives

European and Nordic research Overview of the Nordic Research Cooperation: Report Vilja till forskning? 2011

Enhanced models for Cross-border cooperation and Research infrastructure cooperation European cooperation Cooperation between research

NCoEs as examples of succesful inspiration for development of future research development Nordic Research Cooperation: forskning? 2011

and funding cooperation research and innovation

succesful Nordic cooperation providing future cooperation models

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