Ready for the final round for new prestigious centre
NHH is moving forward in the competition to become a Centre of Excellence. `A major recognition of the academic community´, says Professor Katrine V. Løken.
`We are very pleased to have made it to the final round. It is an extremely competitive process, and this shows that the Research Council considers our research ideas, academic environment and ambitions to be very strong,´ says Katrine V. Løken.
To be narrowed down to 11 centres
A total of 176 research communities in Norway applied to become Centres of Excellence. The Research Council of Norway has now invited 36 applicants to the final round. A total of NOK 1.76 billion will be distributed among around eleven new centres.
NHH is among the finalists with its application for the Centre for the Behavioral Foundations of Work, Firms, and Labor Markets, abbreviated WORKS. The application process is led by Professor Katrine V. Løken at the Department of Economics. She is also Vice Rector for Research at NHH.
The Centres of Excellence scheme gives Norway’s leading research communities the opportunity to organise their work in centres with long-term funding. The aim is to support innovative, groundbreaking research with the potential to move the international research frontier. The centres are funded for up to ten years.
WORKS will examine how workers, firms and institutions influence the labour market at a time of major technological and social change. The centre will combine behavioural economics and labour economics to address some of the major questions in modern working life.
`Our ambition is to develop research that can move the international research frontier, while also providing new insight into some of the most important questions in the labour market´, she says.
A milestone for NHH
Rector Helge Thorbjørnsen congratulates the research community on reaching the final round.
`Reaching the final round in the Centres of Excellence competition is a major achievement. It shows that we have research communities that rank among the very best, both nationally and internationally´, says Thorbjørnsen.
He points out that the Centres of Excellence scheme is one of the most prestigious instruments in Norwegian research.
`NHH has ambitious goals for its research. We have already seen, through the Centre of Excellence FAIR, what long-term funding, strong academic communities and high ambitions can achieve. We are now very pleased that Katrine and her colleagues are moving forward in the competition´, says Thorbjørnsen.
NHH’s first Centre of Excellence in 2017
NHH received its first Centre of Excellence in 2017, when the research groups The Choice Lab and the Centre for Empirical Labor Economics were awarded Centre of Excellence status.
The centre was named the Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality, and Rationality, FAIR, and is funded for the period 2017–2027. It is headed by Professor Bertil Tungodden. Katrine Løken is part of FAIR’s management team.