The State Administration Database

Section for Research, Innovation and Education

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.2007* Founding by complex reorganization

Name: * Section for research and innovation policy
Short name: Seksjon for forskning og innovasjonspolitikk
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Section
Located: 301 Oslo

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.2008* Change of name

Name: * Section for research and innovation
Short name: Seksjon for forskning og innovasjon

01.01.2018* Change of name

Name: Section for Research, Innovation and Education
Short name: FIU

Tasks:
The section is tasked with developing research, innovation and education policy. Key areas include framework conditions and government facilitation. The section is responsible for departmental management of the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomics (NIBIO) and the governance dialogue with the Norwegian Research Council, as well as the contact with "Selskapet for industrivekst SF" (SIVA SF, the Industrial Development Corporation of Norway - State Enterprise). Advancing the government's long-term plan for research and higher education and the development of bioeconomics in Norway is another key area. Furthermore, the department devises institutional policies, works to support the agricultural and food science research community, and is responsible for promoting international research collaboration in agriculture and food. The section also discharges the Ministry's sector responsibility of enrolment to agricultural education at all levels, and competence raising within the sector. The section maintains the dialogue with the Department of Education (KD) and the Department of Trade and Industry (NFD) and other departments on relevant issues.

Source: regjeringen.no, january 2018

01.01.2018* No change to unit, but change of superior

(The unit reports to a new superior organization because the previous superior organization was terminated at the same time.)

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.

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