Team & Partners
People, Passion and Potential
PROJECT TEAM AND COLLABORATION
ARCT™ project owner. 30 years wide-ranging international experience based on a Master Degree in Physics. Passion for responsible project development.
“Society expects sustainable solutions and tools to localize the UN GOALS (SDGs)”.
The need for a “new way of working” was recognized as Regulatory Compliance Manager in Alaska on behalf of Statoil. Where I responded to significant interest in the Norwegian way of doing business and became an expert in comparing regulations.
“The tedious, million-dollar permitting business deserves better work processes and Stakeholder Engagement tools”.
Karin Berentsen
ARCT™ Project owner and Founder and CEO of ARCT AS
Team:
Lill Bente Hollstedt – LinkedIn
Market Specialist. Expert knowledge and experience in design, market communication, strategy and marketing. Web design of ARCT.tools. “Exciting to be part of a project that shapes the future way of doing business!”
Collaboration projects:
LoVeSe-SDG
The LoVeSe-SDG project is awarded MILJØFORSK funding from the Research Council Norway for the implementation of the – “Localizing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in community planning”.
The Ambition with inviting ARCT to provide advice in digital dialogue and to implement design alterations to suit the ARCT Dialogue Tool to the needs of the stakeholder workshops in the LoVeSe-SDG project.Lead by Dorothy Dankel, PhD, at the University of Bergen. The project period is 2019 – 2022.
AlaskaNOR – www.alaskanor.com
The AlaskaNor project ambition is to study opportunities for Blue Growth in Alaska and North Norway.
Project lead is the High North Center for Business and Governance, Nord University in Bodø. The project is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nordland County, and runs from September 2018 to July 2021.
Digital Development:
FORTE DIGITAL – www.fortedigital.no/no
Forte Digital is ARCT’s current developer.
ARCT partnered with business and academia:
The European Space Agency’s Kick start study 2018 – 2019:
Partners: DNV-GL, CICERO, NINA, Ramboll, GridArendal.
Developers: Science&Technology [S&T] for Satellite Imagery and Megapop for IT/development.
The Innovation Norway ARCTIC 2030 project (2016 – 2018):
Partners: Ramboll, DNV-GL, NINA, GridArendal and University of Tromsø (Master student).
Development: Surfside, TryDesign, Frameworks and Megapop.
Research Director at The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) is Norway’s leading institution for applied ecological research, with broad-based expertise on the genetic, population, species, ecosystem and landscape level, in terrestrial, freshwater and coastal marine environments. "We need to change the way we work on regulatory processes in the Arctic. We need to work smarter and more sustainable."
Cathrine Henaug - NINA
Currently Director Industry and Economic Development Manager at Troms and Finnmark County Council.<li> Chair of ARCT Advisory board during the Innovation Norway project as Arctic Director for the Ramboll Group (2016 - 2018). “There is a need for a tool that qualifies business to understand what it takes to do business in the Arctic”. Ramboll has more than 400 experts across 21 offices who bring unparalleled knowledge of the Arctic area’s sensitive natural environment, societal considerations and special working conditions."
Nils Arne Johnsen - Rambøll
Senior Principal Consultant, Environment Risk Management, provided significantly as an ARCT partner during the European Space Agency's Kick start study (2018 - 2019) and the Innovation Norway Project (2016 - 2018). DNV GL is an international accredited registrar and classification society headquartered near Oslo, Norway. The company currently has about 13,550 employees and 350 offices operating in more than 100 countries, and provides services for several industries including maritime, renewable energy, oil & gas, electrification, food & beverage and healthcare.
Hans Petter Dahlslett - DNV-GL
Market Specialist. Expert knowledge and experience in design, market communication, strategy and marketing. Web design of ARCT.tools and Kaisaconsulting.no as WordPress expert. “Exciting to be part of a project that shapes the future way of doing business!”
Lill Bente Hollstedt - LinkedIn
Concept Designer and illustrator. A commercial artist with experience in most areas of visual, creative areas. Currently I work most with film production, but also do a lot of Illustration work. Per contrubuted with concept visualization during the ramping up of the Innovation Norway project (2016-2017).
Per Trystad - Try Design
UI/UX Designer & Developer. Former: Senior Developer Schibsted, Art Director Telecine, Lead Artist Funcom, Independant consultant (Jazzberry) Clients: Bloomberg, Sony Ericsson, Walt Disney, Warner Bros, DC Comics, Skullcandy, American Idol, T-Mobile and many more. And now: ARCT Beta v1.1 development. Hege contributed significantly in bringing the ARCT tool to the level of maturity and functionalities present today.
Hege Marie Brown - Forte Digital, previously Megapop Games AS
Master degree student and academic assistant. Previous experience as course developer. Specialities: political science, comparative politics, international relations. Valued ARCT project participant from 2016-2017.
Eva Høifødt - previous Master student at the University of TromsøOfficial partners
CICERO – www.cicero.no
Center for International Climate Research (CICERO) partnered with ARCT to contribute in the ESA Kick Start porject and generally give advice on how to implement the SDG 13 Climate Action.
ESA – www.esa.int
Center for International Climate Research (CICERO) partnered with ARCT to contribute in the ESA Kick Start porject and generally give advice on how to implement the SDG 13 Climate Action.
DNV GL – www.dnvgl.com
(previous Det Norske Veritas), delivering classification and technical assurance along with software and independent expert advisory services to the maritime, oil & gas and energy industries. DNV GL also provide certification services to customers across a wide range of industries. Since July 2016, confirmed / signed cooperation agreement.
NINA – www.nina.no
The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research is Norway’s leading institution for applied ecological research. The core activities encompass strategic ecological research integrated with long-term monitoring, as well as a variety of environmental assessments and development of methodologies.
ASRC – www.ASRC.com
Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Alaska, the largest locally owned and operated business in Alaska, September 2015, co-op. agreement signed May 2016, confirmed.
Innovasjon Norge – www.innovasjonnorge.no
Innovation Norway is a state-owned Norwegian special charter company with the purpose of enhancing business innovation across the country, contributing to the development of the districts, and profiling Norwegian business and Norway as a destination. The grants from the Parliament and the counties together with loan schemes in 2016 provided a total business-oriented effort of NOK 6.7 billion under the direction of Innovation Norway. Norwegian companies received this risk relief in the form of financial services such as grants, guarantees and loans, as well as a range of advisory, networking and profiling services.
ACADEMIC RESEARCH
1st Master Degree Candidate