VISTA Think Tank

Energy transition as a multidimensional challenge – governing socio-technical transitions

By invite only
Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, Oslo

Praktisk informasjon

The VISTA Week serves as a gathering, bringing together prominent figures from research, education, industry, and politics. Its purpose is to address our society’s most critical challenge – the climate-energy issue – through engaging discussions and exchanges of ideas.

Project manager: Håkon Sandbakken
e-mail: hakon.sandbakken@dnva.no

 

About VISTA

The VISTA program was established in 1985 as a collaboration between Statoil (now Equinor) and The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The overarching vision was to stimulate basic research related to the exploitation and management of Norwegian petroleum resources.

During the first 35 years, approximately 25 scholarship holders and postdoctoral researchers, as well as one professorship, were funded through the program at any given time. In total, more than 300 students received funding for a degree as a result of this collaboration. In 2019, VISTA shifted its focus to centers for basic research. 

The previous call for applications from the VISTA program was in 2020. By now four centers receives funding:

Centre for modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics (CSD) at The University in Bergen.

Centre for Autonomous Robotic Operations Subsea (CAROS) at NTNU in Trondheim.

Centre for CO2 Storage in Volcanic-Sedimentary Systems (VICCO) at University of Oslo. 

Centre for Norwegian Transformative Energy Policy Development (NOTRAP) at NTNU in Trondheim.

Read more on the VISTA website

How can main socio-technological and political challenges be solved to succeed with the energy transition?

Praktisk informasjon

The VISTA Week serves as a gathering, bringing together prominent figures from research, education, industry, and politics. Its purpose is to address our society’s most critical challenge – the climate-energy issue – through engaging discussions and exchanges of ideas.

Project manager: Håkon Sandbakken
e-mail: hakon.sandbakken@dnva.no

 

mann smiler
Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University in the United States, where he is the Founding Director of the Institute for Global Sustainability. He is also Professor of Energy Policy at the Bennett Institute for Innovation & Policy Acceleration at the University of Sussex Business School.
Program
09:00

Registration/Welcome

09:10

Welcome by

Secretary General Marit Westergaard at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

09:15

Introduction to the day and introducing each other

Christian Klöckner, NOTRAP, NTNU

09:45

Energy transition as a multidimensional challenge - governing socio-technical transitions 

 

Beyond democratic innovation, where do we go now? 

Benjamin Sovacool, University of Sussex

 

Graham Smith (University of Westminster, online)

10:15

Break and mingling

10:30

Discussion of main socio-technological-political challenges to be solved to succeed with the energy transition (moderated discussion)

11:30

Lunch

12:30

Governing transitions in practice:

Citizen participation in transitions - successes and pitfalls

 

With citizens for citizens

 

Zakia Elvang (We Do Democracy)

 

Sabrina Artinger (online, head of German government section: "wirksam regieren")

13:00

Identifying research needs/research frontiers (moderated discussion) 

15:00

Extended break and mingling

15:30

Formalizing a research agenda and policy input based on the discussions 

16:30

Wrapping up/next steps

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