Researchers at UiB launch a new book in connection with the completion of the MAGIC project. The publication consists of the project members’ thought-provoking and radical ideas about sustainability.
Bruna De Marchi, researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) at UiB, has written the editorial in the first special issue of the journal Culture e Studi del Sociale.
Are we still citizens of Europe? Will the Schengen area go back to normal? Four researchers from Norway, Germany, France and Italy try to answer to these questions in Arqus's first Academic Debate.
"Covid-19 has shown that we need a new debate about decision-making in crises when the scientific answers are not yet available."
In a recent article co-authored with Mario Giampietro, UiB professor Silvio Funtowicz criticizes the circular economy concept and proposes a different approach to sustainable growth.
MAGIC was a four-year project funded under the H2020-WATER-2015-two-stage programme; topic “Integrated approaches to food security, low-carbon energy, sustainable water management and climate change mitigation."
CANDID studied aspects of the 'smart' agenda centred on topics concerning users, design, digital rights and critical infrastructures.
The aim of this research project was to investigate the question of what happens to fundamental rights and freedoms (such as privacy and dignity) as these become matters of engineering and design to be built into emerging ICT infrastructures.
