Fafo

Founded in 1982, Fafo is a think tank based in Oslo, Norway working on community development, employment & skills, poverty & hunger +8 more.

Fafo is an independent Norwegian social science research foundation based in Oslo. It studies conditions for participation in working life, organisational life, society and politics, the links between policy and living conditions, and democracy, development and value creation. Fafo focuses particularly on the perspectives of employees and people involuntarily outside working life. Its work is mostly commissioned research, funded by the Research Council of Norway, public authorities and labour market parties. Fafo was established by the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) in 1982 and converted into a non-commercial foundation in 1993.