Open Café Online

You are invited to participate in the NoCoU Open Café. NoCoU is a collaborative project that aims to create an innovative arena to meet, discuss emerging threats, challenges and solutions, exchange updated knowledge and experiences on civil security for societies themes such as Fight against Crime and Terrorism (FCT), Disaster Resilient Societies (DRS), Resilient Infrastructures (INFRA, e.g. healthcare, water, energy, transport, digital, communications) and Cybersecurity (CS).

For the first café, NoCoU is joining forces with the clusters NCE Aquatech Cluster, RENERGY, Ocean Autonomy Cluster, Agritech Cluster, NORDSEC, and BEATklyngen as well as the Gemini on resilient critical infrastructures and societies (CERCIS). The next open café is organised by UiT.

Target groups: We welcome participants from user stakeholder groups including professionals involved in safety, security and resilience, crisis and disaster management, policy makers, service providers/operators of critical infrastructure, managers and first responders, public organisations, industry and SMEs, NGOs and academia.

Theme: For the October open café online, we are pleased to welcome two speakers from Oslo Municipality and Future Industry Cluster that will share experiences, needs and interest After their talks we will have time for an open dialogue.

Date: October 31 2025

Time: 09:00-09:50

Place: Online event via teams

Price: Event is free of charge

Register using the following link https://nettskjema.no/a/558914 no later than October 24 (invite for registered people will be sent by 27 October).

Note that NoCoU members and other participants that have accepted the teams invitation no need to register.

Language: The meeting will be held in English. Conversations in other languages are welcome to ensure inclusivity. Please note that the conversation will not be recorded.

About open café online: Open café is a tool/technique/concept that is purely about informal dialogue. The purpose is to create an arena where participants are willing to share questions, challenges, ideas and discuss them within a group. It was originally designed and implemented by the Research Council of Norway, 2020. It is inspired by Open Space founded by Harrison Owen in the 1980, originated out of the desire for people to self-organise around a purpose. Open café is a response to the increased of organised online meetings, webinars and workshops. Within open café the organisers must "let go" of detailed organisation recognising that participants together will develop a richer content to the challenge at hand.