NordForsk is an organisation under the Nordic Council of Ministers that provides funding for and facilitates Nordic cooperation on research and research infrastructure. Its call for research on responsible AI received 200 applications of which 17 research projects were successful.
BI participates in two of those projects.
ORBIT: smart electricity grids in the Nordics
The Nordic energy sector is undergoing a massive transformation. As electricity grids in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland become increasingly interconnected, Transmission System Operators are turning to AI to forecast demand and automate decision-making.
However, in a highly linked system, a disruption in one country can ripple across the entire Nordic region. The ORBIT project (Organizing Across Boundaries for Responsible Use of AI) aims to understand how these organizations can adopt AI tools without compromising safety or accountability.
The project is headed by Aalborg University. Bjørn Erik Mørk, Professor at the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, leads BI’s involvement in the project.
Raise: Protecting Digital Dignity in Public Services
Public administrations across the Nordic-Baltic region are rapidly adopting AI to improve efficiency. Yet, there is a risk that "efficiency" comes at the cost of fairness, hiding structural biases or diminishing the legitimacy of public institutions.
The project proposes a new normative framework based on "Digital Dignity"—emphasizing fair representation and citizen agency. A key outcome will be the creation of a Nordic AI Monitoring Hub, an open-access database and dashboard that tracks the societal impact of AI systems in public service.
LUT University heads the project and Christian Fieseler, Professor at the Department of Communication and Culture, leads the BI team, which also includes Associate Professors Samson Esayas and Sebastian Schwemer from the Department of Law and Governance.
“We are looking forward to working on this project because AI is quickly becoming part of everyday public services, yet governance still too often stops at procedural checkboxes like transparency and privacy, while broader societal risks like exclusion, bias, and weakened institutional legitimacy remain harder to see and address. We hope that through RAISE, which puts digital dignity and responsiveness to public needs at the center, we can help the Nordic region identify systemic risks earlier, learn across countries, and strengthen public trust as AI reshapes government decision-making,” says Professor Fieseler.
Read more about the call on NordForsk website: https://www.nordforsk.org/news/new-research-projects-make-most-potentials-and-mitigate-risks-ai-nordics-and-baltics