I was invited to Oslo Innovation Week by the Oslo Business Region to see firsthand how Norway approaches healthcare research, sustainability, and what it looks like when a government genuinely brings the public along with scientific progress.
📍Oslo, Norway · October 2025 · Invited by Oslo Business Region
Oslo Innovation Week isn't a science conference. It's something broader, a week-long event where researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and the public sit in the same room and talk about where innovation is actually heading. I was invited by the Oslo Business Region to cover it through a science communication lens: what is Norway doing differently, what can we learn from it, and how do you explain a country's entire approach to sustainable innovation to people who've never thought about it?
Three things stood out more than anything else: how openly the Norwegian government funds and communicates healthcare research, how seriously sustainability is treated as a scientific and policy priority (not just a talking point), and how deliberately they work to bring the public into those conversations rather than delivering conclusions from the top down.
Norway funds healthcare research generously and communicates it openly. The public isn't just a beneficiary, they're treated as a stakeholder in the process.
What struck me most was how sustainability isn't positioned as a value statement in Norway, it's an embedded design principle across research, industry, and government. That's a meaningful difference.
Every session I attended was built around accessibility, not dumbing things down, but making sure the people affected by innovation could actually follow the conversation. As a science communicator, that felt important to document.
Short clips from across the week, sessions, conversations, and the moments worth sharing.
Three daily vlogs from the trip, what the sessions covered, who I met, and what surprised me most along the way.
A series of conversations with researchers, innovators, and professionals working at the intersection of healthcare, sustainability, and science policy in Norway, what they're building, why it matters, and what the rest of the world could learn from it.
Norway has a strong and well-funded research ecosystem that's more accessible to international scientists than most people realise. I put together a resource document with job and research opportunity links from the trip.
