Webpages tagged with «Civil Society»

Co-constructing Solutions with Coastal Vulnerable Groups in Africa and Asia

In collaboration with the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association, the Institute for Social Research (ISF) is conducting a follow-up evaluation of the establishment of Kvinnehelsehus in four Norwegian cities. The project is funded by the Foundation Dam.

This project is part of Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector.

This project is part of Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector.

The coronavirus pandemic affected all parts of Norwegian society, including the voluntary sector. The Center for Research on Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector has conducted surveys in the population and among organizations before, during, and after the pandemic.

This project examines participation motives for volunteering work among children, young adults and adults with an migration background. 

This project is a commission for a public committee established by the King in Council on August 12, 2022, tasked with assessing how commercial operations can be phased out in various tax-financed welfare services.

Voluntary organizations have an impact on both the individuals who participate and on society in general. This project investigates voluntary organisations social effects on inclusion.

The project highlights people's institutional trust with a particular focus on institutions that are relevant to national security and national security interests.

This project investigates municipalities' cooperation with voluntary organizations and municipalities' use of self-recruited volunteers, within the field of health and care.

COST-aksjonen EMPOWER SE forsøker å adressere eksisterende fragmentering i kunnskapsnivåene angående sosiale virksomheter (SE)

The project consists of four sub-projects that shed light on volunteering in different ways: consequences of the corona pandemic, life course and motivation explanations, and volunteering among the elderly and immigrants.

"New trends in civic engagement and digital media" illuminates the scope and importance of new forms of community engagement. The project focuses in particular on the importance of social media for participation in civil society and voluntary organisations.

How can private companies and voluntary organizations work together? This project examines how the cooperation between the business world and volunteering in Norway.

This project resulted in an report about the consequences of the covid-19 pandemics for the voluntary sector in Central Norway.

Co-production is a new way of working together, where all involved partners in public services plan, implement and evaluate. This project studies co-production in the Nordic countries.

This project evaluates trials with the Leisure Card pilot project in selected municipalities. The leisure card is a scheme for all children and youth aged 6 to 18, which provides semi-annual monetary support to cover participation fees in regularly organized leisure activities.

This is a European cooperation project with the aim of equipping European employees and volunteers in civil society organizations by strengthening their knowledge.

The growing impacts from climate change and environmental problems raise a variety of different questions for social research. This research initiative sheds light on social science research questions within climate change and environmental policy and aims to put forward new insights on this profound challenge of our times.

The initiative is coordinated as an umbrella project with experience-sharing across subprojects.

In this project, we will investigate the consequences of the pandemic for children’s and young people’s conditions in which to grow up, for equality in families and for individuals, including children and adults with disabilities, as well as experiences on the internet. 

The project investigates the factors that beyond individual and family resources generate inequalities in children and youth participation in organized leisure activities.

This project is part of the Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector.