Gemini Centre Global Impact
Events
27 May, 12.00–13.30
Hybrid seminar: Rethinking Global Research Partnerships: Power, Knowledge and Ethics
The NTNU Global South Initiative and the SINTEF-NTNU Gemini Center Global Impact invite you to a hybrid seminar that critically examines how research and education partnerships across regions are shaped by power, resources and knowledge hierarchies.
The seminar will take place on Wednesday 27 May, 12.00–13.30 and brings together researchers and institutional leaders to explore what more equitable collaboration can look like in practice. It asks how partnerships can move beyond extraction and asymmetry, and instead facilitate mutual learning, shared agendas and greater fairness in knowledge production and funding relationships.
Cathrine Brun and Cyrine Saab from the Center for Lebanese Studies will present insights from their work on equitable partnerships, equity in knowledge production, donor relations and funding structures. Drawing on their research and experiences, they will reflect on the structural conditions that shape collaboration and how these can be challenged and reshaped.
Professor Cathrine Brun is Deputy Director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies, an independent research institute based between Beirut, Lebanon, and Cambridge, UK, and a fellow at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Before joining CLS, she was Professor of Geography at Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Professor and Director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice at Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on the ethics, politics and philosophy of humanitarianism and knowledge production, examined through forced migration, conflict, youth, education, housing and home.
Dr. Cyrine Saab is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Lebanese Studies. Her main research interests centre on equity in education for refugee children and youth. She completed her doctoral research at the UCL Institute of Education in London, where she examined how refugee street children in Beirut learn through participation in informal work and everyday life. At CLS, Cyrine has further developed this work through policy-oriented and community-engaged research that seeks to improve the living conditions of street children through educational policies and practices that centre their needs and lived realities.
The presentation will be followed by a conversation with Hilde Refstie, Charlotte Nakakaawa-Jjunju and Petter Støa, focusing on how these questions are being addressed in the new NTNU Global South Initiative and in SINTEF’s corporate initiative on global sustainable development. The discussion will invite reflection on institutional responsibilities, concrete practices and future directions.
The seminar is open to staff and students interested in global research collaboration, education partnerships and questions of equity and power in international cooperation.
Please sign up here no later than May 25
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- 16th December 12:00 - 17:00: The humanitarian reset: what may it look like? A forecasting workshop to deal with contemporary forks in the road for Norwegian-led Humanitarian actors towards 2030
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Previous events
NORDEV NARMA LMIC Roundtable: Moving into the Mainstream
On September 25th, NARMA LMIC hosted a roundtable discussion at the NorDev25 conference to discuss how equitable partnerships with institutions in low- and middle-income countries are becoming part of mainstream research funding.
Unequal Impacts: Climate Change Adaptation in the Global South
This two-hour seminar brought together researchers from NTNU, SINTEF, and partner institutions to discuss the urgent need for climate change adaptation in the Global South.
Global Impact Policy Dialogues – Norway’s new strategy for African engagement
Seminar Friday 6th of September – Dragvoll, Trondheim and online
SINTEF and NTNU welcomed Asian delegation
On the 18th of June, we had the pleasure of welcoming an enthusiastic and eager delegation from Central and West Asia to us at SINTEF in Oslo.
Launch of Gemini Center Global Impact in Trondheim
The Global Impact Gemini Center, a collaborative initiative between NTNU and SINTEF, was successfully launched in the prestigious Rådssalen at NTNU on Wednesday, April 10th, 2024.