Nofima and the University of Tromsø are collaborating to offer a course aimed at small and medium-sized seafood companies, with the objective of improving their ability of running their own R&D activities.

Senior Scientist Kjell-Arne Rørvik taking a blood test during sampling at Nofima’s research station at Averøy in Møre og Romsdal in May 2010. Credit: Wilhelm Solheim © Nofima

Senior Scientist Kjell-Arne Rørvik taking a blood test during sampling at Nofima’s research station at Averøy in Møre og Romsdal in May 2010. Credit: Wilhelm Solheim © Nofima

The course is aimed at managers, mid-level managers and others who have or are intending to have responsibility for research, development and innovation. The course aims to get seafood companies to work more strategically with research, development and innovation, and to also help develop closer contact and interaction between research, industry and funding agencies.

“Nofima will contribute with our experiences of industry oriented research. Through the course, the participants will gain knowledge, inspiration, new networks, start-up help and tools that may be useful in their own activities,” says Audun Iversen from Nofima.

“The objective is to improve the companies’ ability to run their own R&D activities, and the course will also help to raise the industry’s expertise in commissioning research, so that research funding is spent on research that is even better adapted to meet the industry’s needs.”

The course will consist of four two-day sessions. The first and last sessions will be held in Tromsø, while the other sessions will be held in different parts of the country, depending where the course participants are from. The time frame of the course is approximately nine months, including preparation and examinations.

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