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Congratulations on a successful 2022!
Dear colleagues. Throughout 2022, we have worked hard on economic measures on various fronts, including land, and this has had a significant effect. Thank you for a solid effort to everyone so that we have managed to stop the increase in our deficit.
If you are applying to the NFR call for Researcher Project for Young Talents (FRIPRO) on 15 March, register your proposal by 14 February.
Hei, my name is Lotta and I am from a small village in the Austrian Alps. I got my bachelor´s degree in Biology at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart (Germany) and my master´s degree in Ecology at the University of Vienna (Austria).
On December 19th, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was adopted at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal. Do you find the agreement and it’s context complex and difficult to grasp? Do not despair! Vigdis Vandvik and CeSAM has made a “Cheat sheet to the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework” which provides an excellent overview of the structure of the Framework and the challenges it adresses.
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The Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study supports projects carried out by researchers at UC Berkeley in collaboration with researchers from eight Norwegian universities (including UiB). Please find the Call for proposals for 2023-2024 here.
Dear colleagues,
the Research Council of Norway (RCN) has stated that open research will be incorporated into the assessment criteria for Researcher Projects and Collaborative and Knowledge-building Projects on open science practice. This applies to applications with deadline already February 8th, 2023.
A webinar on January 31st (13.00 CET) from ELIXIR Norway (https://elixir.no) will provide you with information on Open Data and Data Management requirements for these research applications to the RCN.
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Kjære kollega,
I samarbeid med AAC&U annonserte vi i desember en utlysning til å delta i Norwegian Panorama Virtual Exchange/COIL Partnerships Initiative: U.S., Japan and South Korea. (Søknadsfrist 20. februar).
Dear PhDs and postdoctoral researchers,
It is our pleasure to invite you to present your work at the upcoming SDG Conference 2023!
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Dear all,
It is appropriate to start with something that I believe to be good news. Although the accounts for 2022 have not been officially closed yet, it seems that we have almost managed to maintain a financial balance in 2022. We started 2022 with a forecast that said we would have a deficit of approx. 53 million. The accounting figures now indicate that at the end of 2022 we had a deficit of 46.8 million. It is a bit strange to say that this is good news, but at the same time it shows that we are on the right track in reducing our large deficit. It is very gratifying. If we were to be completely balanced in 2022, we should have been at 44.5, so we still spent more money than we received, but much better than expected.
2023 is well under way with new opportunities and challenges. For my part, I will pay particular attention to the following issues this year:
– We must mobilize even more towards bringing in extra funding for our research activity and we must ensure that BIO’s expenses are fully covered.
– We must intensify our work to reduce costs (both time and money) towards our educational activities, without the quality being reduced to a level we cannot vouch for. I belive we still have a lot to go on here.
– We still have to deal with the fact that we have job freeze at BIO, and a very limited financial room for action. This will affect us, but I definitely believe that we should be able to handle it. We have so much power, quality and courage in us that we will manage this.
– We have a fresh strategic plan and action plan, with many important points. We will use these plans actively going forward in the development of BIO.
Earlier in the week we submitted our own-evaluation of BIO to the large national “Biofag” evaluation. I believe that we have identified both strengths, weaknesses and challenges in our research activity. The next step is interviews with the expert panel. I’m looking forward to those. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed towards the submission deadline, especially Jon Vidar who has made a huge effort.
I wish you all a nice weekend.
Hilsen Ørjan
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After the pilot study last autumn, we are now planning to carry out budgeting for all our courses. It is Anne Bjune, Beate who is studying and Anne Marit Blokhus who will carry out this work which is planned to take place in the spring semester 2023.
