SINTEF projects

ADAPT develops and evaluates technology for assessing fall risks among seniors.

The innovation project Arctic Protection run from Q1 2014 to Q1 2017, and is now finalised. A multilayer workwear system was developed, which includes a range of garments designed to enable the workers to operate both efficiently and thermally...

The TORC project develops an innovative and comprehensive training concept that enable organizations to appreciate, nurture and improve their inherent resilient and adaptive capacities, while being under the imperative of predominantly compliance...

Smartphones and tablets can support children and adolescents with ADHD and/or autism and their families to organise and manage their everyday activities. In the Erre mulig project we aim at finding out what such ICT solutions should contain, and how...

In cooperation with key players in the industry SINTEF/NTNU has initiated a project on proactive safety management in the building and construction (B&C) industry. The project's main objective is to develop knowledge, methods and tools to ensure...

The report examined the children's influence on their own residence and access arrangements when parents do not live together. The analyzes are based on data from an interview survey among parents who have children together and who do not live...

NEXUS is a research project that has received support from SAMRISK II program of the Research Council of Norway for the period 2014 to 1st of July 2017. SAMRISK II program aims to "increase knowledge about threats, hazards and vulnerability...

Offshore activities are subject to strict safety procedures to prevent accidents and to improve the working environment. This project will examine how supervision and monitoring of these procedures affect the safety of operations .

Use of local anesthesia has advantages for the patient, while reducing costs for healthcare. Department of Medical Technology at SINTEF Technology and Society is a partner in the EU project Regional Anaesthesia Simulator and Assistant (RASimAs...

In safety work we have traditionally been concerned with mistakes, failures and why things go wrong. Such a focus will always be important to prevent new accidents, but there is also much to learn why things go well. Why do we succeed in coping with...

Unfavorable exposures for workers in the fishing fleet, such as a cold, noise, heavy lifting, inconvenient working hours, long work days and excessive strain are factors that may negatively affect health and work participation. Combinations of these...

"Water within your reach" is the catch-phrase for the project Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) for resilience to climate change impact on water availability in Ghana. Improved access to drinking water and adaptation to climate change by way of local...

The project goal is to provide new and important knowledge of cooperative and communicative structures between the multilevel collaborating parties working together on several areas, among them the IA Agreement and the Job Strategy.

The Government's Jobs Strategy for People with Disabilities is aimed at people under the age of 30 with disabilities who are not included at the labour market. SINTEF has been commissioned to evaluate the implementation of the strategy. The main...

Officers aboard the Norwegian merchant fleet are struggling to implement what they learn in training. Partly they are working in conflict with what they have learned about procedures.

Read about the project on our Norwegian pages.

Testing wells simultaneously and with no production loss

Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB) assigned SINTEF to identify information that can be used for periodic monitoring and evaluation of safety development in and around establishments that handle large amounts of hazardous chemicals. The...