Office for Research and Innovation (SeFI) has the overall responsibility for support services in research and innovation. We work together with the administration at faculties and departments to ensure that UiT realizes UiT's strategy and development agreement with the Ministry of Education and Research. SeFI has overall responsibility for establishing, managing and coordinating strategic programmes and initiatives within research, innovation and external relations.

SeFI provides advice and support to external partners, researchers, administrative staff and managers within:

Strategy for research and innovation

• Policies, ambitions, guidelines, regulations and other guidelines for research and innovation
• Secretariat functions for:
  • Research Strategy Committee
  • Strategic Committee for Innovation
  • Research Ethics Committee
• Strategic component of UiT's budget:
  • Fund for Strategic Development
  • Fund for recruitment positions

Research career

• Career development
• Support system for externally funded research and innovation (in particular the Research Council and the EU Framework Programme)
• Open science
• UiT Talent, including:
  • UiT Aurora Outstanding
  • Arctic MSCA-program
  • ERC Mentoring Program
  • Horizon Europe Priority Program
• Processes that promote quality in PhD education

Innovation

• Culture and competence for innovation
• Interaction with clusters, business and the public sector
• UiT Talent, including:
  • Innovation fund for employees
  • Innovation positions
• Framework agreement with UiT's technology transfer company (TTO)

Legal support

• Agreements and contracts
• Export control
• Research ethics
• Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
• Privacy

International cooperation

• Arctic Five
• EUGLOH
• Yerun
• Collaboration on PhD education
• Other international research and innovation cooperation

Other

• Institutional and strategic cooperation agreements
• UiT's research infrastructure
• The privacy services that SIKT provides
• Reporting of scientific publications
• Analyses of the research and innovation area, including UiT's Research Report
• UiT's awards
• UiTs Honorary doctorates