The second annual Ocean Sustainability Bergen conference went hybrid this year, and I got to present work from our #LoVeSeSDG project in the «From Pins to Action» panel. University Aula and gave a 5 minute
presentation on the on-going work in the #LoVeSeSDG project. For us locals in Bergen, it was a real pleasure to work with our producer, Irmelin Grønevik, and her stellar team @ Bergen Live! Dag Rune Olsen, our Vice-Chancellor @ UiB who opened the conference even remarked that he sees Irmelin more often than any other colleague in these digital communication days on campus! I also enjoyed hearing Per Grieg, Jr. of Grieg Seafood underscore their commitment to the SDG. But perhaps his message that researchers need
to do a more pro-active job to communicate their research to policymakers is the one I liked the best.
Check out the tweets to #OSB2020 here: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23osb2020&src=typed_query
And here are some backstage photos I took to get the feel of the production set-up by Bergen Live!
The Main message of my own talk was that we must harness the detail of the SDG Targets in order to capitalize on local SDG reporting: There are on-going activities in communities that already are doing some of the grunt-work described in the SDG Targets. But we have to link these activities TO the targets. This is what my students Jessica Fuller and Anna Blome are currently doing in their work in the #LoVeSeSDG project through interviews and workshops with stakeholders in Andøy Kommune in Vesterålen, Northern Norway.
My talk can be seen at this link (fast forward to 2.54): https://stream.mux.com/4L01qkFnPuIBUX9VjtoZ4NB9N8ZG6hiT2/high.mp4
And check out the backstage video I took at the very end of the conference: https://youtu.be/kWVXGOgaKLM