Current Projects
NEXT-UP
LOS Analytics is a provider of simulations for the EU Horizon Europe project NEXT-UP. This project explores and forecasts the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on youth transitions from education to employment. The interdisciplinary consortium includes prominent academic and NGO partners from nine EU countries. LOS Analytics contributes by simulating local labor markets in four EU countries and delivering scenario analyses and data visualizations.
Bodø2024
The city of Bodø will be crowned as an European Capital of Culture for 2024. An international research team evaluates cultural life before, during an after 2024. The study focuses on cultural indicators and effects of cultural life on Bodø municipality and sorrowing areas. The researchers has already accumulated a considerable amount of qualitative and quantitative data. Since the relationships between cultural events and socioeconomic life has appeared to be too complicated for traditional methods of analysis, LOS Analytics is developing an agent-based model.
The Societal Benefits of Nord University: A Counterfactual Analysis
This project aims to document the socioeconomic significance of Nord University’s Bodø campus ten years after the university was established in 2016. The analysis includes a counterfactual simulation in which the Bodø campus is removed from the model in 2017 in order to assess the consequences for Bodø municipality. The counterfactual analysis illustrates the major importance of Nord University’s Bodø campus for Bodø municipality. A simulation of a scenario in which the Bodø campus is closed in 2017 shows that, by 2025, Bodø municipality would have had 4,979 fewer residents (-9%), 3,312 fewer employed persons (-11.3%), and 325% higher unemployment, with negative spillover effects on the housing market, consumption, and the city’s attractiveness. Without the university, Bodø would have experienced fewer births, reduced demand for kindergarten and school services, and a weaker labour market. These effects become stronger over time, affecting both demographic development and the local economy.