Projects

See concluded Projects.

The Research Group is always interested in discussing new projects, and interested researchers are encouraged to contact the leader of the Group, Professor Beate Sjåfjell.

Externally-financed research projects hosted by the Research group

  • Futuring Sustainable Nordic Business Models (Futuring Nordics)

    Futuring Sustainable Nordic Business Models is a joint interdisiplinary three years (2019-2021) research group of the Department of Private Law and the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Futuring Nordics is a part of the University of Oslo UiO:Nordic initiative, working in collaboration with ReNEW (Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World) Nordic research hub. The leader of the project is Professor Jukka Mähönen from the Department of Private Law and deputy leaders Associate Professor Maja van der Velden from the Department of Informatics and Professor Beate Sjåfjell from the Department of Private Law.

  • Central banks expanding role in financial markets

    In the aftermath of the outbreak of the Global Financial Crisis in 2007 and again today in response to the covid-19 pandemic, we see that central banks have gained an expanding role in economic crisis management. This research project will examine how domestic and international law, public and private, both facilitate and limit central banks’ expanding role. The project is a collaboration between the faculty of law at the University of Oslo and Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. The leader of the project is Professor Mads Andenæs.

  • Sustainable Catering

    The pilot project Sustainable Catering is a collaborative project between Sustainability Law scholars and the Procurement Office at the University of Oslo. The aim of the pilot project is to create and follow up a new, research-based framework agreement for catering. Catering for meetings and events at the University of Oslo shall provide food that is tasty and varied and that contributes to sustainability, to a safe and just space for humanity. The pilot project, led by Beate Sjåfjell, runs from 2022 to 2027.

Other research projects involving members of Sustainability Law

  • EMPOWER: Sustainable Batteries in Mobility - (Em)powering a Net-zero Engergy Transition

    EMPOWER is an UiO:Energy Convergence Environments  aimed at developing an encompassing long-term strategy on sustainable batteries.  The projects runs from 2022-2026 and comprises 6 interconnected work packages. By answering its overarching research question: How can EV batteries EMPOWER the transition to a net-zero energy system in Norway?, EMPOWER will develop an encompassing long-term strategy towards sustainable EV batteries. Funded by UiO-Energy. Project leader is Marianne Zeyringer (Department of Technology Systems). Eléonore Maitre-Ekern is leader of WP4 (A legal framework for sustainable batteries in mobility) and King Men Teoh is PhD candidate. Other participating  member from our Research group is Beate Sjåfjell.

  • Circular Energy for a Sustainable Circular Economy (Circular Energy)

    Circular Energy is a thematic research group (2021 - 2023) that aims to contribute to new knowledge about social and legal aspects of sustainable energy solutions in relation to the expanding role of digital products and services in our economy. The research group will explore digitalisation in the context of the shift to Circular Economy (CE), with a particular focus on design, maintenance, and repair as energy conservation strategies and the regulation of products for sustainability.  Funded by UiO:Energy. Project leader is Professor Maja van der Velden (Department of Informatics). Members from our Research group are Beate SjåfjellEléonore Maitre-Ekern, Kirsten Daae Wiig and Frida Kvål Salberg (research assistants supervised by Eléonore).

  • SHIFT-PLASTICS

    SHIFT-PLASTICS is funded by the Norwegian Research Council and led by Hans Jakob Walnum at the Western Norway Research Institute (Vestlandsforsking). The aim of this project is to create sustainable circular value chains for handling plastics in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. Seven research institutions are involved, which have expertise in technology, policy, and circular value chains, and as many as 20 other actors - equipment manufacturers, industrial partners, the recycling industry, public partners, and interest groups take part in the project. Eléonore Maitre-Ekern and Beate Sjåfjell are contributing to WP2 (policy) and WP5 (sustainable value chains).

  • ToNoWaste: Towards a New Zero Food Waste Mindset Based on Holistic Assessment

    ToNoWaste is a Horizon Europe funded 48-month project (2022-26) led by Sustainability Law Research Group member María Jesús Muñoz Torres (University of Jaume I). ToNoWaste includes 21 institutions from 7 countries, among them the University of Oslo. The objective of ToNoWaste is to provide farmers, supply chain companies as well as consumers and policymakers with more objective, integrated, and standardized information about the impacts and global co-benefits of their daily actions and to co-create a portfolio of positively assessed pathways to shift Europe towards a healthier, more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable food production and consumption. Methodologically, ToNoWaste uses a multi-stakeholder and interdisciplinary approach that considers not only agronomic, economic, environmental and business model challenges, but also other cross-cutting aspects such as psychology, law and social innovation to fight also against gender and social inequalities. Jukka Mähönen, with Rodrigo Lozano from the University of Gävle, leads WP6 (ocreation of new policies and guidelines for fostering the change), and Giulia Petrarchi is the PhD candidate. Other participating members from our Research Group are Beate Sjåfjell and and Eléonore Maitre-Ekern.

     

Published Jan. 6, 2012 11:38 AM - Last modified Oct. 30, 2023 10:13 AM