Dannevig is a PhD-candidate at the Department of Planning at Aalborg University and a Research Fellow at Western Norway Research Institute in Sogndal.

The Western Norway Research Institute is currently assisting the development of an EEA funded National Climate Adaptation Training Network in Hungary. As part of the project a group of ten Hungarians have been visiting Sogn to learn more about climate adaptation and climate change communication.

We have started a process to renew our website, and would like to know more about our website visitors today. We are therefore asking visitors three short questions using a simple questionnaire. We hope you take the time to respond!

Professor Rajendra Akerkar at Vestlandsforsking has been nominated by the Norwegian Research Council as a Management Committee Member to the European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST) Action “High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications".

Styret for regionalt Forskingsfond på vestlandet har tildelt Vestlandsforsking kr. 200 000 til et forprosjekt for å se på hvordan klimaendringer og klimapolitikk kan påvirke vestlandsjordbruket.

Vestlandsforsking is 25 years and we are celebrating this by offering a series of seminars on semantic technologies. The series starts Thursday 11th of Nov and will continue until June 2011. All seminars will be streamed and the video will also be available for download afterwards. More information about the dates for the seminars in 2011 will follow later. The topics to be presented in 2011 are also subject to changes.
We would like to thank Difi, the Resource network for e-Government (Verdikt) and ABM Utvikling for sponsoring this series. The seminars will be held in English.

Clim-ATIC invited to its international project conference in Florø, Norway, 26-27 October 2010. It was streamed live here at wnri.no.

Food is an integral part of tourism, but there is seldom a focus on
how food can affect the sustainability of the tourism sector.

The conference” ISO 15926 and Semantic Technologies” took place in Sogndal September 9. – 10.

In the weeks to come, we will publish podcasts on local adaptation to climate change.

Vestlandsforsking participated recently at the Nano2010 conference in Clemson, USA, where a large number of participants contributed with presentations of their work on nanoparticles in the environment.

The County Governor could generally do more to follow up and ensure that preventive work is carried out in the wake of extreme weather events, as shown by a study of the Norwegian County Governors' departments of civil protection and emergency planning.

Vestlandsforsking recently presented research results on consumption and Norwegian environmental policy at an international conference on ecological footprinting in Italy.

The International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS'11) will be organised under the auspices of Vestlandsforsking in May 25 - 27, 2011. The conference will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Web intelligence, Web mining and Web semantics.