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Collaboration at the Department of Geosciences

Photo from one of the research laboratories at Dept of Geosciences, Our researchers have extensive cooperation with external research partners and also the business community.

The Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo has extensive cooperation nationally and internationally with companies, research institutes and other universities both in research and teaching.

The Department of Geosciences has a long standing tradition established in collaborating with industrial partners.The department is a part of an excellent international academic network with collaboration with colleagues at universities and institutions around the world. This gives rise to shorter and longer research projects and study related visits from abroad as well as it give our researchers and students the possibility to visit our partner institutions.

Our research is mainly funded by sources outside the University of Oslo, such as project support from the Research Council of Norway, the EC, industrial partners, but also other actors.

Research collaboration

The Department of Geosciences is a partner or part of centres with extensive cooperation with various actors from the public and private sector.  We would like to highlight these research collaborations:

Previous collaborations and centres

We have participated in a various research centres and intitiatives that have now been completed. Among these are:

The Industrial Liaison Forum

In addition to extensive collaboration through the centres, research networks and research projects we have a forum for exchange of ideas in petroleum geosciences; the Industrial Liaison (IL).

Studies abroad