INTPART Funding for Our Research Group

Vestlandsforsking has been granted INTPART-funding from the Norwegian Research Council (RCN) and the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education (Diku)

Advances in digital technologies, such as sensors, Internet of Things, Big Data Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and cybersecurity protections can help those responsible for protecting critical infrastructures more efficiently understand potential threats,  predict potential changes in their systems and strengthen the resiliency of critical infrastructure systems.

The project “Transnational Partnership for Excellent Research and Education in Disruptive Technologies for a Resilient Future (DTRF)”, aims through cooperation between Vestlandsforsking, Western Norway University of Applied Science (HVL) and seven world class university departments from the USA, India, China and Japan, to establish a long term partnership where excellent education is to be embedded in excellent research in disruptive technologies for critical infrastructure resilience.  The project has the potential to be an extensive network that connects many researchers, faculties and students. The DTRF research and education network will be coordinated by Vestlandsforsking and will run for a term of three years.

Master students with relevant backgrounds will be integrated into Vestlandsforsking’s and the partners’ ongoing research with academic publications as the final goal. A high quality of student and faculty mobility will be established. This will result in enhanced education and the development of expertise into Norwegian academia, e.g. DTRF curricula into the professional training of research education of tomorrow’s data scientists, researchers and policymakers. It will also result in deeper research collaboration, which in turn will enrich the educational track of Norwegian Master students. The increased contact and mobility will also help the researchers’ possibilities of getting collaborators and relevant hosts for their research stays in the USA, India, China and Japan.

DTRF consortium will not only communicate within the DTRF related research community but also with other related businesses and public sector organisations with the impact to give the DTRF more visibility.