Between the 28th and 30th of March, Startup Preschool Bergen will be arranged for you who want to start a business. Join a 3-day free crash course in entrepreneurship!
Invitation to digital information meeting about opportunities in DIGITAL Europe 2 April
[Our translation/Google translate] On Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from 10:00-11:30, Digdir, Innovation Norway, HK-dir and the Research Council of Norway will organize a digital information meeting on new opportunities in DIGITAL Europe for the period 2025-27.
Språkrådet: Webinar on language and quality in education 29 April
[Our translation/Google translate] How are language in teaching and curriculum related to quality in higher education? And what place do skills in Norwegian professional language have in the learning outcomes that students will be left with after their education?
Editorial – 14.03.2025
This week there has been a presentation of topics for master’s theses for students who will start their master’s in the fall. There was a good turnout and good engagement from both staff and students.
New member of staff – Lin Li
Hi, I’m Lin! I’m so excited to be here and to meet all of you. I’m from China, and this is my first time in Bergen. There’s certainly a lot of rain here—but just as abundant is the warmth and…
New member of staff – Erlend Hartvigsen
Hei! My name is Erlend, and I will be working in a temporary position as a student adviser while Ingvil Roosendaal Sahr is on parental leave. My main tasks will be to handle student exchange – both outgoing and incoming,…
BIO project: CONFECT – CONnect and INFect!
Building an interactive network to advance research and education in viral ecology and evolution Ever wondered how viruses shape life in the ocean? CONFECT is here to spark curiosity and connect minds! CONFECT is an RCN-funded INTPART project (2021-2026) designed to boost teaching,…
BIO publications week 11
Arthun, Marius, Khuong Dinh, Jakob Dorr, Nicolas Dupont, Filippa Fransner, Ina Nilsen, Paul E. Renaud, mfl. «The Future Barents Sea-A Synthesis of Physical, Biogeochemical, and Ecological Changes toward 2050 and 2100». ELEMENTA-SCIENCE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE 13, nr. 1 (21. februar…
Summary of the Key Changes from the Program Board and Education Council Meetings in February
Program Board for the Bachelor’s and Master’s Program in Molecular Biology The major changes in the study plans adopted by the program board are changes in the duration of the exam in MOL300 and the weighting of the report and…
Forskningsdagene i Bergen 17-26 September 2025
Forskningsdagene er en årlig, nasjonal festival i regi av Norges forskningsråd, med mål om å skape begeistring og forståelse for forskning. Årets festivalperiode er 17.09. – 26.09.2025. For mer informasjon om festivalen se vedlagte invitasjon fra UiB: Forskningsdagene2025_Invitasjon
Five calls for ground-breaking research (FRIPRO)
These newly announced calls are a result of an additional 500 MNOK allocation from NFR to the FRIPRO program in order to develop leading research environments and boost the competitiveness of the future. Read more here
OPINION: It is incomprehensible that teaching development is not a priority
[Our translation] The Centers for Excellence in Education (SFU) have put the development of excellent teaching on the map. Dismantling them makes no more sense than disbanding the Research Council, says Vigdis Vandvik, professor of biology at UiB. The quote…
bioTEACH Thursday 20 March
What’s behind Large Language Models? 12.15-13.00 Seminarrom K1/K2, Biologen, A-blokken
PhD defense, Mari Lie Larsen 21 March
Evidence- based policymaking: Exploring the effectiveness of salmon aquaculture management in Norway 13.15-14.15 Lille auditorium, Høyteknologisenteret Read Mari’s press release [Norwegian language]
Applications reading day for PhDs and Post Docs April 8-10
[Our translation] As part of the Career Days 2025, 05 UiB Ferd Career Center is organizing application reading days for PhDs and postdocs at UiB. In these sessions, researchers with little or no application experience can read winning applications for…
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) 2025 – Webinar for applicants, supervisors and advisors 14 May
More info about the webinar can be found here. 14 May 10:00–11:30; Digital
Horizon Europe Cluster 6 6 Info Days and Brokerage Event
In relation to the work programme for 2025, both Info Days and a Brokerage event for cluster 6 will be held in May 2025. The dates for the Info Days are 20. – 21 May (online) The brokerage event takes…
Centre for Digital Life Norway Summer research school: Oceans under stress June 2-6 in Bergen
This course is designed for PhD students specializing in marine environmental toxicology, marine biology, bioinformatics, statistics, and mathematics. The program consists of a 3-day PhD course followed by a 2-day workshop, providing an interdisciplinary platform for students and experts to…
Call for abstracts and travel support for the yearly SANORD conference 2025
UiB has been a member of the SANORD network since 2007, – a network with over 50 universities from the Nordic region and the SADEC region (South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia).
Vacancies – PhD fellow (UiT and Aarhus Univ) and traineeships (Arctic Frontiers)
PhD Fellow in Marine Biodiversity and Genomics in the Central Arctic Ocean (275588) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway <https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/275588/phd-fellow-in-marine-biodiversity-and-genomics-in-the-central-arctic-ocean>
Editorial – 7.3.2025
One of the challenges we are currently facing is that our financial framework has seen a decline year by year, as factors such as inflation, price increases, and wage growth are not fully compensated through our annual allocation. It is…
New faces: Maria Aadland Sætre is our new controller
My name is Maria Aadland Sætre and I just started as a controller at the Faculty of Science and Technology. I have previosly worked as a consultant in Bergen kommune. I have been assigned to the Department of Biological Sciences…
Katja Enberg receives the Olav Thon foundation’s award for excellent teaching
The winners of the Olav Thon founation’s award for excellent teaching 2025 were announced yesterday. We are very proud and pleased that Katja Enberg was one of the 9 awardees. In their assessment of Katja’s work the foundation states that…
Reminder: Department council [instituttrådet] election 2025 – invitation to nominate candidates by March 19th
In the spring of 2025, elections will be held for the department council. All members, with the exception of the head of department who is a permanent member, are up for election, and until 19 March you can nominate candidates…
UiB SPIRE – Seed funds – Strategic program for international research collaboration 2025. INTERNAL DEADLINE MARCH 14TH
[Our translation/Google translate] Application procedure: Applications must be submitted to the department by knut.daasvatn@uib.no no later than 14 March 2025. A new round of applications can be opened in autumn 2025 (assessed and administered by the faculties). The deadline for…