It is time to harvest the fruits of lots of sowing. Research organisations are quite difficult to get on board the podcast and I have managed a few since I started, but now I am finally having a handful of research organisations already recorded or lined up for recordings.

This week I have Senior Researcher Antonio M. Ortiz from the Norwegian private research organisation NORCE in the virtual podcast studio. Not only is Antonio researcher with more than 15 years of experience – he has also worked as research project manager in two different ICT companies. And on top of that he also used to be my colleague as private grants consultants in PNO. In other words - he has tons of experience from many sides of the table when it comes to EU funding and ICT which is his domain.

I invited him in to have a talk about his work in NORCE as a researcher in the research group for artificial intelligence. We talk about the research strategy of NORCE and then we allow ourselves to be a little geeky and dig into the actual research they do and also taking time to fold out a funded project on smart manufacturing using artificial intelligence to make a more safe, sustainable and efficient production.

This is gold for researchers and research managers. You don’t want to miss this.

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00:11:29 Introduction to DARWIN Research Group

00:17:56 Funding strategy

00:36:14 Key research tracks

01:04:31 Concrete project presentation

01:15:16 The toughest challenge