Professionalization Norway

Torjusen H, Sangstad L, O Doherty Jensen K and Kjaernes U (2004) European Consumers Conceptions of Organic Food A Review of Available Research, Professional Report no. 4-2004, National Institute for Consumer Research, Oslo, Norway. 

The laboratory is also a center of training in archaeometric research. The staff regularly offers a lecture and lab course on archaeological chemistry. Students and professionals from universities around the world spend weeks and months in the lab learning theory and methods. Visitors from Denmark, Germany, India, Norway, Pakistan, China, Spain, Switzerland and elsewhere have learned principles and procedures of archaeological chemistry in the lab. 

The pharmacists represented a special professional group related in different ways to the chemists in various countries. In the Netherlands, the pharmacists were welcome to become members of the chemical society if they so wished. The case was the same in (at least) Belgium, Czech Lands, Denmark and Norway, whereas the pharmaceutical chemists were explicitly excluded from membership of the chemical societies in some of the other countries, such as Britain. Different local reasons for the differences have been discussed in some of the previous chapters, and we can only conclude that although chemistry historically has had long and strong ties to pharmacy, the two disciplines had largely become differentiated by the late nineteenth century. This is also reflected in the formation of self-contained associations dealing with the specific interests of the pharmacists. 

In the HS in Norway, physicians, human biology researchers, and pharmacists are eommonly used as teachers of the BS. They are often professionals laeking pedagogieal training, and many do not have HS institutions as their main plaee of work (Pettersen, 2003a). 

Regarding professional knowledge, 60.7% of the sample had some kind of training on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH). In the above-mentioned study in Norway was reported that more than half of the workers evaluated (not specifying the exact value) had some kind of formal education on OSH (Svendsen et al., 2014). 

Nordbakke, S. (2004). Driver fatigue and falling asleep - experience, knowledge and conduct among private drivers and professional drivers. TOI Report 706/2004. TOl (Institute of Transport Economics), Oslo, Norway. 

The Norway Trade Fairs foundation has been supporting Norwegian industry with professional exhibitions since 1920. The fairs are held at the Sjolyst Centre in Oslo, the nation s largest professional exhibition centre, owned and operated by Norway Trade Fairs. 

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