The University of Oslo has presented an ambitious and unprecedented action plan for the humanities towards 2030 - the first such plan ever - in response to the Norwegian government's call in 2017 for higher education institutions to strengthen their work with the humanities.
From the welcoming ceremony in 2019.
The action plan has also been driven forward by the huge collaborative research project 'UiO:Nordic' in which more than 250 scholars, half of them professors - both in the Nordic countries and abroad - have participated.
Professor Tore Rem, director of UiO:Nordic, told University World News: "The strongest elements in this project investment are without doubt the extent of cross-scientific research involved, and the volume. And we have participation of many of the leading scholars in the field. This has to be the largest collective research work on 'Nordic studies', widely defined, ever undertaken."
