Annual Meeting – Smartfish
The Smartfish project, funded by Horizon2020, is having its annual meeting now. It was originally supposed to be in Lorient, France this year – which for Covid-19 reasons was cancelled. It is now on TEAMS, like most of our interactions have been on for the past year. Close to 40 participants attended the…
Interview with “All About Money”
I was recently interviewed by the Hong Kong International Business Channel about whether commercial fishing can be made more efficient and sustainable – within the framework of the Smartfish project. Smartfish is an international research initiative that’s developing high-tech systems for the fishing industry, including methods for scanning catch in real-time. I was…
4 project awarded for Christmas
What a wonderful Christmas this will be! With good colleagues from around the country and at SINTEF Ocean, I had the honor of being part of four projects that were funded by the Research Council of Norway! I am the project coordinator of one of them – and lead work packages in the…
Interview with CNN
My colleage John Reidar Mathiassen and I were interviewed by CNN internationals series Business Evolved recently about a Horizon2020 project SINTEF Ocean coordinates – Smartfish – this is the finished product! We were interviewed the entire day – and it all ended up with this 3 minute video that was aired on CNN…
A rare trip to Oslo – mid-pandemic
With regulations easing up over the summer, there was suddently an opening in the regulations for SINTEF and we were allowed to travel inland to meetings or workshops. I had at this point not been on a flight since February 2020 – and given my history of flying, this is a very long…
More GoJelly! A Serious Game!
In January 2020, we were awarded 1 million NOK for a coordiantion and support action for the Horizon2020 project GoJelly! The aim of this extra funding was to enhance the Norwegian participation in EU projects – and bring in more Norwegian partners. Our pitch was among others that we wanted to develop a…
Aberdeen – 2nd annual meeting for Smartfish
Smartfish is another Horizon 2020 project I am involved in – this one I am Project Leader for and work closely with the SINTEF Ocean team on coordinating the project – and this trip was the second annual meeting – we are halfway through the project, and it was time for us to…
Brussels and the 18 month review
One of the research projects I have a work package leader role in is called COASTAL – and it is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. In this project, we take advantage of a unique multi-actor collaboration of coastal and rural business entrepreneurs, administrations, stakeholders, and natural and…
Bergen – January 2020
As soon as the New Year was over and regular work started, I flew straight over to Bergen to see my good colleague Dorothy and her colleague Jeppe – we are writing a proposal to Horizon2020 on fisheries and I needed input and help from Dorothy – we have worked together for many…
Annual Meeting – GoJelly! in Piran, Slovenia
What an amazing week in Slovenia! I sometimes pinch myself at how lucky I am to get to work on such exciting projects with a fantastic group of people from not only all over Europe – but also from within my own organization and my town! I had never been to Slovenia before…
