DART ― Services
Research
As a non-profit research institute, NR provides stakeholders in Norway and the world with research services. Our services include research work, prototyping, custom studies, and research management.
Industry, public bodies, and research funding organizations finance our activities. We know the funding schemes and offer various financial models for research cooperation with your organization.
Please contact us if you are interested in the possibilities for private or publicly funded research projects for a particular research problem.
Please visit our overview of research areas for more elaborate descriptions.
Innovation
NR helps customers transform research into innovative products and services. Organizations looking outside their boundaries can gain access to new ideas, knowledge, solutions, and technology in cooperation with NR.
Our clients gain strategic competitive advantage, and long-term profitability from scientific innovations. We help our clients to adapt new knowledge and contemporary research results into their business.
Innovation support is provided through strategic projects, innovation management and targeted activities such as studies, research, and training.
Consulting
Customers take advantage of our competence in our research areas. They improve their products, their strategies, their policies, and their knowledge by hiring DART's competence in solving problems and in strategic information technology consulting.
As an institution with nearly six decades of experience in applied research, we have access to a large internal knowledge pool.
Naturally, consulting projects can be kept confidential if customers require confidentiality.
We would like to mention that we do evaluations of the accessibility and usability of ICT solutions. Please see the research section for more detailed information.
Teaching
NR's researchers teach classes at The University of Oslo, at NTNU at Gjøvik University College, and other teaching institutes.
Our seminars, work shops, academic lectures, and company trainings have the same high standards and can be tailor made for your purposes. We educate special-interest groups, students and professionals. Get your share in our knowledge, and contact us about a training event!
We can provide in-house or external seminars as well as thematic speakers and academic lecturers.
We invite you to get an overview of our courses!
The Department of Applied Research in Information Technology at the Norwegian Computing Center offers applied research within multimedia, information security, universal design, and e-inclusion. Multimodality is a key strategy to usable data services, and we participate in projects handling multiple devices including mobile phones, PCs, and digital television. Our researchers have high scientific competence and broad industry experience. In addition to research our services cover concept studies, analysis, consultancy, prototyping, training, development, and evaluation.
For more information please contact research director Åsmund Skomedal.