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Research and development

The Faculty of Technology, Art and Design (TKD) carries out research and development activities within technology, engineering, art and design.

Priority areas with their own web page

Research facilities

Laboratories

Overview over laboratories and research facilities at Faculty of Technology, Art and Design with its own web page in English:

R&DI strategy at TKD

R&DI strategy at the faculty

Research, Development and Innovation strategy at The Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University.

R&D management

Vice-Dean for R&D

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R&D Committee

The R&D Committee at the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design

The committee advises the faculty management and has been delegated power of decision in individual cases.

Doctoral committee

The doctoral committee at the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design is tasked with developing the faculty’s researcher education.

R&D administration

The R&D-section at the Faculty

The R&D-section assists and advices  researchers,  research groups and the faculty management on research funding, research ethics and personal data protection, publications, dissemination etc.  

The R&D-section has administrative responsibility for the Faculty's PhD-programme in Engineering Science.

Contact persons in the R&D-section

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Head of Section

  • Research ethics
  • Contact for the Department of Product Design (PD)
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Senior Adviser

  • Innovation
  • DOFI
  • R&D Commitee
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Senior Adviser

  • Research grant support
  • Responsible Research and innovation (RRI)
  • External networks and partnership
  • Innovation
  • Intellectual property rights (IPR)
  • Contact for Department of Computer Science (IT)
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Senior Adviser

  • Privacy, personal data protection contact for R&D
  • Data management plans 
  • Research ethics
  • Secretary for the local R&D committee
  • Contact for Department of Art, Design and Drama (EST)
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Senior Adviser

  • Equals EU
  • Cristin (super user)
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Adviser

  • Application support and project follow-up
  • Project registration; the research database and P360 
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Senior Adviser

  • Application support for external funding for collaborative projects
  • Regional, national and international projects
  • Contact with business and the public sector for partnerships
  • Project support; start-up, implementation and closure
  • Contracts and agreements
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PhD Senior Adviser

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PhD Senior Adviser

Dissemination of research

The Faculty's Communications Advisers are happy to help with dissemination of research.

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Portrait of elderly lady in bed.
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Artificial intelligence illustration: drawing of electronic circuits with a human head in the middle.
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Woman with a brain activity measuring cap strapped on her head and a researcher standing behind her with an instrument ajusting the electrodes on the cap.
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Girl doing crafts in a classroom
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Shows the legs and white cane of a blind person walking on a gray paved sidewalk. Next to him, a person walks with him.
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Student drawing with pencil on a pencil portrait of a woman.