Entries by Janne Iren Robberstad

World Opera Day

9. November 2021 in /by

For the World Opera Day, the Norwegian team made this short video while filming the story for Thrive. How far would you go to make great art? How far wouldn’t you go to make green art (and help save the world)?

Welcome Ukraine!

9. November 2021 in /by

We have a new member in our community! Ukraine! Iryna Berezovska coordinates international activities at the Junior Science Academy in Lviv, and now this includes the Global Science Opera. She graduated from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University and got her Kandidat degree at Voronezh State Technical University (Russia). After many years of work related […]

September online session

6. September 2021 in /by

The September online session will feature the Swedish lighting designer Evelina Dembacke. Throught a practical lecure & workshop she will share some of her secrets to easy-to-achieve, sustainable and beautiful lighting design. Stay tuned on September 24th at 1 pm cet. You will find the link on our Facebook-page. You can read more about her […]

GSO on Instagram

21. June 2021 in /by

We finally took the step, and now the GSO has its own Instagram-account. If you want to share photos from your work with your contributions, please tag us: @scienceoperaglobal (note the relocation of the words in the name). For this years production you can also use the hashtags: #globalscienceopera #gsothrive #ecosystemrestoration and #generationrestoration which is […]

GSO online session: Ecosystem Restoration

21. May 2021 in /by

We are so excited to be partners with the UN this year, their experts will help us with the scientific facts, and issues. As a part of this, Tim Christophersen will give a lecture on Ecosystem Restoration, followed by a Q&A.  The lecture will take place on Zoom on Friday June 18th, at 2 PM […]

Congratulations, Dr. Ben-Horin!

27. February 2021 in /by

It is with great pleasure we congratulate Oded Ben-Horin with his dissertation “Improvising the Bridge” today, and his new official title: Doctor! Oded is one of the “founding fathers” of the GSO, and led the production of the first operas.  He is still the visionary coordinator of the GSO and much of his doctoral work […]

Introducing Dr. Giedre Straksiene

26. February 2021 in /by

From January 2021 Giedre Straksiene, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher in the Global Science Opera, in the context of HVL’s University project. She came from Center for Studies of Social Changes (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities) at Klaipeda University (Lithuania). Her main research area focuses on development of communicative competence; various teaching/learning drama methods […]

Welcome Romania!

8. February 2021 in /by

Welcome to Felicia Calmuc, a new member in our GSO-community. She teaches English and French in a public school in Craiova, Romania. Her school is one of few that offers extracurricular activities to students between 4 and 19 years. Part of this offer will now include creative STEAM-work. She is part of the main team […]

GSO and the key drivers of education

28. January 2021 in /by

Three major global drivers in education, necessary for meeting the challenges of the 21st century, are: education for sustainable development, demographic change, and technological advances. Without addressing the demands of these drivers, our education systems are, most likely, rooted in narrow, robotic learning, blinkered to what is happening around us in the world, focussed solely […]