The faculty requests that we report participation in partner applications for the call National Infrastructure 2025. The prioritized list of partner applications led by another BOTT university will be submitted by the faculty by September 9. Partner applications led by…
Month: September 2025
Visit from Hokkaido University September 2nd
On Tuesday, September 2nd, our department had the honour of hosting a delegation from the Faculty of Fisheries Science at Hokkaido University, led by Dean Yasuaki Takagi, Professor Munetaka Shimizu, and two colleagues. During their visit, the delegation met with…
Summer research school in marine viral ecology and evolution 4–15 August 2025
In early August, we hosted a summer school for PhD students at the Marine Biological Station at Espegrend, sponsored by the Intpart project ConFect. Twelve students from 6-7 different countries took part. During the course, they learned both classical and…
Join this years plastic clean up campaign 25. September!
On Thursday, September 25, UiB and its partners are organizing a plastic cleanup event in the coastal area outside Hellesøy. Sign up for a meaningful, academically engaging, and social cleanup activity here. For more info and sign-up, see the event…
The Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA) is now ready for use at UiB
Employees at UiB can now use NVA to register and edit their publications. Log in to NVA via Feide at https://nva.sikt.no/login Please note that as the migration of files to NVA is still ongoing, the system may occasionally be slow and…
Do you have a suggestion for a diversity and equality initiative that the department can seek support for? PLEASE CONTACT nina.holland@uib.no BEFORE 18. SEPTEMBER
UiB is announcing support for diversity and equality initiatives, see a translation of the announcement letter below. Initiatives for which support is being sought must be in line with the GenderAct2 project, the faculty’s action plan for equality, inclusion and…
UPDATE: The Olav Thon award for outstanding teaching – N.B. – internal deadline 29. Sept 12am
[Our translation/Google translate] The Olav Thon Foundation was established in December 2013. The Foundation’s statutes, § 7c), stipulate, among other things, the following tasks for the Foundation: c) Support may be provided in the form of personal awards for outstanding…
NRC Call: Communication and Dissemination of Climate, Environment and Ocean Research
The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) will provide a global boost to raise knowledge about the oceans and ensure that society can make use of this knowledge so that we can achieve the UN Sustainable Development…
UiB Climate Fund and Green master
The fund shall finance measures that support the work to ensure a more environmentally and climate friendly university. Either through direct reduction of UiB’s climate footprint, or by motivating students and employees to participate in a joint “environment and climate…
Course: HSE risk assessment and safe job analysis (SJA) 30. October
Content: In this course, you will learn how to carry out HSE risk assessments and Safe Job Analysis (SJA) using UiB’s templates, and receive an introduction to legal requirements, risk concepts, risk matrices, as well as participate in practical exercises…