The People Behind Futures Literacy Norway
Futures Literacy Norway is an informal network of people and organizations working with anticipation theory and practices for research and innovation policy learning and leadership. Here are the people who have been preparing our input to the UNESCO Futures Literacy Summit in December 2020.
Per Koch
Per is the editor of the Norwegian magazine Forskningspolitikk, a publication owned by NIFU, focusing on research and innovation policy. He is also a part time researcher (Special Adviser) at NIFU.
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| Per M. Koch Photo: Martin Skulstad |
From July 1991 to May 2000 he was a Senior Executive Officer and Adviser on science and technology policy in the Norwegian Ministry of Education, Research and Church Affairs, during which time he was also a member of OECD CSTP and several of its working parties. He was Chair of the OECD STIG working party on mechanisms for international STI cooperation for global challenges (2012).
From 2000 to 2006 he worked as a Senior Researcher, Research Director and later CEO of the Norwegian STEP institute for studies of innovation, now part of NIFU STEP. At that time, he was the coordinator of the EU 5th Framework Programme project PUBLIN, on innovation in the public sector. He was also a Special Adviser for the EU Trend Chart on innovation. He is part of the UNESCO network for Futures Literacy, and is guest editor of the forthcoming Futures special issue on futures literacy.
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| Elisabeth Gumbrandsen Photo: RCNA |
Elisabeth Gulbrandsen
Elisabeth is a Special Adviser at the Research Council of Norway (RCN). She is currently engaged with RCN's experiments for developing 3rd generation research and innovation policy or Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP).
Whereas earlier generations argued with 'market failure' and 'system failure' to motivate the spending of public money on research and innovation, 3rd generation relates to a failure to engage with the Grand Societal Challenges in constructive ways. She networks internationally to further TIP and has been serving on the governing board of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium since its inception in 2016.
Before joining RCN she held positions at The Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Oslo and Luleå University of Technology. While working at RCN she has also been a frequent guest researcher and lecturer at Blekinge Institute of Technology. She holds a doctorate in technoscience studies from Blekinge Institute of Technology.
She has an interest in research and innovation policies for transformative change her research focuses on national and international policy development and policy measures for addressing societal challenges.
She has extensive experience from participating in large research projects; she participated as an expert in the OECD STIG working party on mechanisms for international STI cooperation for global challenges (2012); she was work package leader in the research project “SusValueWaste: Sustainable path creation for innovative value chains for organic waste products” (2015-19) funded by the Research Council of Norway, and participated as researcher in the project “Technology Opportunities in Nordic Energy System Transitions” (2011-2015) funded by Nordic Energy Research.
Since 2019, she has been leading a working group which makes use of UNESCO’s methodology for Future Literacy Laboratories in a Centre for Responsible Research and Innovation in Norway (AFINO), funded by the Research Council of Norway. Her work involves building learning arenas where people from industry, academia, NGOs, public sector institutions and other relevant citizens and stakeholders can make use of the future in order to explore the possible negative and positive consequences of innovation and current socio-technological shifts.
He has a BA i chemistry and an MA in philosophy from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Universität Leipzig. He defended his PhD dissertation—"How to be a good sentimentalist"—in October 2019 at the University of Bergen.
Prior to Fremtenkt, his experience includes teaching, tutoring and lecturing at Norwegian University of Life Sciences and University of Bergen. Sveinung has also taught classes in elementary and high school, and has worked in geriatric care.
His most recent academic publication is Sivertsen, S. S. (2019). On the Practical Impossibility of Being Both Well-Informed and Impartial. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 12(1), 21.
Before joining RCN she held positions at The Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Oslo and Luleå University of Technology. While working at RCN she has also been a frequent guest researcher and lecturer at Blekinge Institute of Technology. She holds a doctorate in technoscience studies from Blekinge Institute of Technology.
Lisa Scordato
Lisa has a master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Linköping, Sweden. She has worked at NIFU since 2007, as researcher until 2014 and since then as senior adviser. She has previously worked as an adviser at the Swedish Institute for Growth Policy Studies, in Brussels.
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| Lisa Scordato Photo: NIFU |
She has an interest in research and innovation policies for transformative change her research focuses on national and international policy development and policy measures for addressing societal challenges.
She has extensive experience from participating in large research projects; she participated as an expert in the OECD STIG working party on mechanisms for international STI cooperation for global challenges (2012); she was work package leader in the research project “SusValueWaste: Sustainable path creation for innovative value chains for organic waste products” (2015-19) funded by the Research Council of Norway, and participated as researcher in the project “Technology Opportunities in Nordic Energy System Transitions” (2011-2015) funded by Nordic Energy Research.
Since 2019, she has been leading a working group which makes use of UNESCO’s methodology for Future Literacy Laboratories in a Centre for Responsible Research and Innovation in Norway (AFINO), funded by the Research Council of Norway. Her work involves building learning arenas where people from industry, academia, NGOs, public sector institutions and other relevant citizens and stakeholders can make use of the future in order to explore the possible negative and positive consequences of innovation and current socio-technological shifts.
Sveinung Sundfør Sivertsen
Sveinung is co-founder and Chair of the Board of Fremtenkt.
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| Sveinung Siversten Photo: Fremtenkt |
He has a BA i chemistry and an MA in philosophy from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Universität Leipzig. He defended his PhD dissertation—"How to be a good sentimentalist"—in October 2019 at the University of Bergen.
Prior to Fremtenkt, his experience includes teaching, tutoring and lecturing at Norwegian University of Life Sciences and University of Bergen. Sveinung has also taught classes in elementary and high school, and has worked in geriatric care.
His most recent academic publication is Sivertsen, S. S. (2019). On the Practical Impossibility of Being Both Well-Informed and Impartial. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 12(1), 21.
Ragnhild Nabben
Ragnhild is co-founder and CEO of Fremtenkt.
She has an MA in comparative literature from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Sorbonne (Paris IV), as well as a diploma from SKA (The Writers Academy in Hordaland).
Prior to Fremtenkt, her experience includes work as head of outreach and project manager at the Olav H. Hauge Centre for Poetry/Nynorsk kultursentrum. Ragnhild also has experience as a teacher and a special needs teacher.
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| Ragnhild Nabben, Photo: Fremtenkt |
She has an MA in comparative literature from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Sorbonne (Paris IV), as well as a diploma from SKA (The Writers Academy in Hordaland).
Prior to Fremtenkt, her experience includes work as head of outreach and project manager at the Olav H. Hauge Centre for Poetry/Nynorsk kultursentrum. Ragnhild also has experience as a teacher and a special needs teacher.
Rune Todnem By
Rune is Professor of Leadership at University of Stavanger Business School, Norway; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Change Management; co-founder, Public Leadership Foundation; and part of UNESCO’s Futures Literacy network.
With 15 years of experience working at British universities he is an internationally acknowledged expert in the areas of leadership and organisational change. Following his presentation of the EPICally MAD framework (TEDx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nno1faLhoWk),
Rune continues to redefine leadership as an activity and responsibility we all can contribute to. The notion of purpose is at the very core of his work, and a future enhanced focus on anticipation is in the cards.
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| Rune By Photo: UiS |
Rune continues to redefine leadership as an activity and responsibility we all can contribute to. The notion of purpose is at the very core of his work, and a future enhanced focus on anticipation is in the cards.
