These are the research projects that use or have used the Saros system. Each one publishes its results as a Saros-generated report website, so they double as worked examples of what the system produces.
Project names are Norwegian and are kept as proper nouns, with an English gloss on first use.
Kompetansebarometeret (KB)
The Competence Barometer, a survey of employers’ skills needs. https://kb.nifu.no
- Annual from 2024.
- The 2016–2024 series is available through SarosFlexiApp, a separate web app for exploring survey data.
Arbeidsgiverundersøkelsen (AGU)
The Employer Survey. https://agu.nifu.no
Kandidatundersøkelsen for høyere utdanning (KU)
The Graduate Survey for higher education. https://ku.nifu.no
- From 2023.
- Annual, running half-yearly in odd-numbered years, with a special edition in even-numbered years.
Kandidatundersøkelsen for høyere yrkesfaglig utdanning (KYU)
The Graduate Survey for higher vocational education.
- Four surveys over the period 2025–2031.
- The planned address is
kuy.nifu.no. It is given here as plain text rather than a link because the site is not yet live.
Deltakerundersøkelsen (DU)
The Participant Survey. https://du.nifu.no
- Half-yearly, from autumn 2022 to spring 2024.
- The audience varies between cycles: teachers, vocational teachers, heads of kindergartens, head teachers, and a module-based variant.
Critical Thinking in Sustainability Education (CriThiSE)
- A survey of pupils, 2022–2023.
- A survey of teachers, 2022–2023.
The Choice Architecture of Admission to Education (ArcED)
- Oslo.
Health and Life Skills (HeaLS)
- 2025, and expected again in 2026.
Spørringene til Skole-Norge (SSN)
The Surveys of Schools in Norway. https://ssn.nifu.no
- Half-yearly.
- Published as an interactive version of the printed report.
Reading these as examples
Where a project produces mesos reports, those are password protected, since each institution should see only its own results. The main report — the macro level described in
vig_00_about_saros— is the publicly reachable part.