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VisibilityMedia strategy
CASA aims at a media strategy for
popular science presentations of the
research activities in magazines, newspapers,
on television, radio and the web. It is also an aim
to make female researchers particularly visible in order
to recruit women fellowship holders and contribute to a more
even gender balance in this research field.
The popularized part of this report is an example of how
these strategies are carried out. The articles have also been
published in our monthly newsletter (see below) and on the
blog
SFI CASA newsletter
As part of the media strategy SFI CASA released a newsletter
in September 2015. The newsletter is sent out to partners,
contacts and other people in SFI CASA’s social and professional
network and to professionally interested parts of the media.
The newsletter presents both research news and in-depth
interviews with key personnel working with SFI CASA. The
newsletter is published here: and anyone
can subscribe to the monthly newsletter sent out by email.
Technology evaluation
In 2014, the Research Council of
Norway initiated an evaluation of Norwegian
research in the field of technology. In the spring
of 2015 the international evaluation committee
published their report Basic and long-term research
within Engineering Science in Norway. Three main areas of
performance were emphasized in the evaluation; Scientific
quality and productivity; Relevance and impact; Strategy,
organization and research cooperation. The SIMLab research
group hosting SFI CASA received top score in the evaluation
and was described as world leading in its field of research.
Invited and guest lectures
Professor Arild Holm Clausen presented the invited lecture How
does SFF, SFI and SFU contribute towards improving education?
Experience from SFI – SIMLab at NTNU at the NOKUT conference
on higher education, 19-20 May 2015, Bergen, Norway.
Centre Director Magnus Langseth gave a presentation of SFI
CASA at the official kick-off for the 9 new SFI centres hosted
by NTNU and SINTEF on 18 September 2015. Post doc Martin Kristoffersen presented his project Explosion
loads and load effects on submerged floating tunnels at
Teknologidagene, a conference organized by the Norwegian
Public Roads Administration, on 23 September 2015.
Keynote lectures
Professor Magnus Langseth gave a keynote lecture with the
title Structures subjected to extreme loading conditions. Do we
need new knowledge? at the Design and Analysis of Protective
Structures (DAPS2015) conference that took place in Singapore
on 19-21 May 2015.
Professor Tore Børvik gave a keynote lecture with the title
Structural impactat the 8th national conference on computational
mechanics (MekIT’15), Trondheim, 18-19 May 2015.