User time on research facilities at BIO and within the operating agreement UiB/ILAB during spring semester of 2025. APPLICATION DEADLINE JANUARY 20th

Foto: BIO, Heikki Savolainen, Eivind Senneseth, Marineholmen RASLab

Applications must be submitted to the respective responsible persons by 20 January 2025

Application form [You may need to log in to MittUiB to be able to access the form]:

https://mitt.uib.no/courses/11056/files/6530399?wrap=1

Everyone who works with laboratory animals must have an approved course in laboratory animal studies, this also applies to master’s students. Planned courses for researchers, technicians and master’s students can be found here: http://www.uib.no/fg/dyreavdelingen/64685/fors%C3%B8ksdyrl%C3%A6re-kurs

Applications to the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (FOTS) for permission to carry out experiments with animals must be submitted no later than 3 months before the start of the experiment.

There is a user fee for access and activity at the experimental animal department on the 1st floor T55 and the living department on the 1st floor T53A. 50% of the estimated user payment is paid in before the trial is started, the remaining amount is calculated and paid in after the trial has ended. The user payment must go towards operation, maintenance, upgrading and the purchase of consumables in the departments.

All applicants must state the source of funding. It must also be noted if user payment is to be invoiced for external projects.

Price categories for user payment BIO experimental animal department T55 and live department T53A:

Users Price category Regular/mnth. m2/mnth.
Internal, master og PhD without project financing 1 650,- 130,-
BIO with project financing 2 2850,- 285,-
External 3 6500,- 650,-
Ex: Klimarom 10 m2, price category 2: 2850,- + (10 m2 X 285,-) = 5700,-/mnth.

User payment for AH2 and Sickness-cells at ILAB:

AH2, 1-meter well: 1140,- per month

AH2, 2-meter well: 3420,- per month

Sickness cell (8x60cm well): 7125,- per month

Users are billed for freshwater and desinfection

Price list for  2025 will be forwarded to users as soon as it is provided by ILAB