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Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) is a leading
national centre for applied local, regional and environmental
research. The Institute conducts interdisciplinary applied
social science research, development projects, evaluations and
documentation for the Research Council of Norway and users
representing a wide range of central local government agencies, NGOs
and private organisations.
The research activities are grouped in six
core research fields that also reflect the thematic organisation of
the Institute.
NIBR is organised as a foundation with a
board appointed by the Research Council of Norway. The
Institute receives an annual basic grant from the Research Council,
but is manly financed by undertaking commissioned research under the
various programmes of the Research Council and from projects
undertaken for public agencies at national, regional and local
level. Major clients are the Ministry of Environment, the
Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development and several
other ministries, as well as the Norwegian Agency for Development
Co-operation (NORAD). Projects also receive funding from
international bodies.
NIBR's research staff comprises of 72
researchers with backgrounds in the social sciences and planning:
sociologists, political scientists, economists, demographers,
anthropologists, geographers, architects, engineers, land use
planners and landscape architects. A considerable proportion
of the staff holds doctoral degrees.
In 1999 NIBR had a turnover of approximately
NOK 51.6m. The budget for 2000 is approximately NOK 55.4m. |
