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Curriculum Vitae Thomas Norrby
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Norrby
Thomas Per Gunnar
24th of December 1962, Strängnäs, Sweden
Married to Pyrola, Four wonderful kids:
Adrian (-92), Henrik (-94), Veronica (-98), Nicandra (-02)
Stjärnvägen 11, 743 35 Storvreta, Sweden
Home: +46 18 31 58 53
+46 18 67 18 89/ mobile +46 705 67 18 89
Thomas.Norrby@sol.slu.se
http://www.slu.se/sol/lbutv/norrby or http://www.vioni.se
norrbystorvreta, norrby101
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Swedish
English
Spanish
French
Reading
Speaking
Mother tongue
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Writing
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EDUCATION (FORMAL)
1994
1989
Thesis (Licentiate in Agronomy, 2 years fulltime post masters studies)
Title:”Small Business Entrepreneurs and their conceptual framework
concerning the exchange with the customers – a case study on four farm
butcheries”
Master of Science in Agricultural economics
Thesis: Entrepreneurship in rural Gotland – a study of new ventures
WORK PLACEMENTS
2010200620042000199619971989-1994
Studiefrämjandet (part time)
State extensionist in Rural Development at the department of Rural and
Urban Development, unit for Rural Develoment (part time)
Running Vioni, a private consultant firm (part-time off-duty at SLU):
Business and rural development through consultancy, short courses,
investigations and evaluations, conference arrangements and focus groups
Rural Development Unit, SLU Omvärld: Project and unit developer and
coordinator, teacher and ICT and pedagogical consultant on Distance
Education, Future search
Continuing Education specialist, SLU Kontakt, Project developer and
coordinator, teacher and ICT and DE-pedagogical consultant
National Advisor on Continuing Education with SLU Info
Research assistant, Department for economics, SLU Uppsala
OTHER (NGO ACTIVITIES ETC )
200920092008-2009
2007-2008
2006-
Initiating and leading the project Ställ om Storvreta, a local Transition
Village program
Member of the County board for Hela Sverige ska leva (länsbygderådet)
Member of the elected Board for Leader Upplandsbygd (2007-2013
program)
Chairman of the intermediate Board for Leader Upplandsbygd
Chairman of the board of the local Housing Association
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Curriculum Vitae
Thomas Norrby
2002-2011
2002-2006
20011998-2001
1998-2010
1998-2002
1998-2002
1996-2002
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Member of the board of the local Housing Association
Member of the Euracademy association (European Academy for
Sustainable Rural Development)
Member of the Rural Development Group in the Uppsala Region (actors in
rural development, connected with the Growth Program of the Uppsala
Region)
Initiating PEDICTUS, a network of reflecting and practising IT-pedagogues
Responsible for the Music Council of the Lyckebokyrkan congregation
Member of the IT- Infrastructure project for the Uppsala region: ITC
Initiating and member of the board of lant.net, the Swedish Association
for IT in Agriculture (member of EFITA, the European ass. for IT in Ag.)
Board member of SADE, The Swedish Association for Distance Education,
in charge of the website and monitoring the development of ICT in
education
Curriculum Vitae
Thomas Norrby
EXTENDED WORK CONTENT LIST AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
2009-
2008-
2007-
2006-
2004-
2000-
1998-
Teacher at SLU Agronomy program on Rural Development, course on
“Organizing, Leadership and Learning”
Advisor to the evaluation team doing the half-time evaluation of the
Swedish Rural Development Program
Project manager for the project Bygdebalans (On localising the economy)
Initiating “Virtual Think Tanks” as an instrument for the National Rural
Development Network
Forming the “Local Economics Network”
Moving towards the Transition Network Initiative
Member of the Steering Committee for the National Rural Development
Network
Member of the evaluation team doing the Final evaluation of the Swedish
Agricultural Development Program (CAP 2000-2006)
Developing the new Leader-program in the Uppland region
Taking the project “Sustainable Villages” to a second project period
State extensionist at the department of Rural and Urban development
- process evaluation for the Swedish Board of Fisheries on the collaborative
initiative on co-management of fish
- explorative study on the local management of natural resources for the
Swedish Board of Agriculture
- teacher on the new Master program on Rural Development for
practitioners
- Thematic Expert on Rural Development for the Contact Point for Rural
Areas, DG Agri
Concultancy for SPIDER (SIDA) on ICT for Rural Development in Rwanda
Vioni, private consultant (part-time off-duty at SLU):
Leader+ Observatory: consultant in ICT-team for transnational cooperation
ADITAL: bridging the digital divide between Europe and Latinamerica,
consultant on web-development, teaching on-line courses. Working
language Spanish. Investigations, evaluations, conference arrangements
and focus groups
Co-initiator of the project “Sustainable villages”
Rural Development Unit, SLU Omvärld: Project and unit developer and
coordinator, teacher and ICT and DE-pedagogical consultant, future search
Funding member of the Euracademy Association “European academy
for rural development”, www.euracademy.org. Responsible for the
website development, the first Summer academy (Gotland 2002) as
well as the first Distance learning course on “Developing Sustainable
rural Tourism” (web only)
National project manager for the Ten Telecom project “Metafor –
distance learning by satellite”
developing a new web-portal for rural development: ruralsweden.org.
developing project along the line of Sustainable Villages together with
the Swedish Popular Movement (Hela Sverige ska leva)
Developing the project “AgriWise” as a concise handbook on calculus in
agriculture, including all types of relevant figures, calculus on-line etc.
First project on XML-solutions in agriculture.
5 week Study tour to Australian and New Zeeland distance teaching
universities focusing on weblearning tools
Continuing Education specialist, SLU Kontakt, Project developer and
coordinator, teacher and ICT and DE-pedagogical consultant
Teacher and main coordinator for the yearly distance learning course
”Rural Development for practitioners,
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Curriculum Vitae
Thomas Norrby
Course manager and teacher in “Project management in rural
development” (5b-projects)
Initiating and developing the project ”Knowledge networks University &
Business” with innovative web-portal tools.
Initiating and developing the project “Agricultural colleges as Local
Learning centres” with the web portal naturbruk.org
Initiating and developing the project "Summer Research Camps for
kids"
Project manager and national coordinator for "AgriMMedia" – a
Multimedia support network for agriculture (ESPRIT program DGIII)
Initiating and leading the Swedish network for ICT in agriculture,
lant.net
Project developer, fundraiser and steering committee member for
AgriWise, on information chains in agriculture.
National Project manager för Euracademy, a Pan-European Academy
for learning rural development.
National Advisor on Continuing Education with SLU Info
Initiating and running the IT-pedagogic forum at SLU
Teacher at the department of communication
Developing and running the course ”Distance Teaching – pedagogics
and technics” for teachers
Research assistant, Department for economics, SLU Uppsala
Developing pedagogical training material for farmers and train the
trainers on “Business and change – changing the business”
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1994-1998
1999-2000
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