The debate aims to provide a contribution to the University of Oslo’s input to the Government’s new Long Term Plan for Research and Higher Education (LTP) 2023 - 2032, currently under development. Our goal is to encourage discussion on the role of cooperation with the South as an important element in global development. The Committee will ask questions about how the government plans to address the perspective from the South in the new LTP. The current discourse in Europe (where Africa in particular is in focus) and in the Western world in general, on globalisation and sustainability and increased cooperation with the global South, provide the background for the discussion.
Questions such as the following will be asked: What does sustainability mean, from a South perspective? Sustainable development and knowledge-based innovation - for whom? Can there be real sustainability without including perspectives from the South?
The panel will consist of representatives from UiO’s five working groups for position papers currently being prepared as a basis for the University’s input to LTP: Carl Henrik Gørbitz (the Life Sciences working group); Eivind Engebretsen (the Sustainability, climate and the environment working group); Linda Hildegard Bergersen (the Basic Research working group); Frode Helland (the democracy and inequality working group); Ola Mestad (the Oceans working group); and Vice-Rector Åse Gornitzka.
The panel will be moderated by Professor Kristin Braa, Head of Section, Department of Informatics Health Information Systems Programme (HISP).
The panel debate is open to all.