On 5 December 11:00 – 14:00, we will host a workshop to envision possible positive futures for nature – and how we might reimagine study programs and educational activities at universities to support developments towards those visions. We will be joined by experts from IPBES, and the workshop is open to all BSc, MSc and PhD students and postdocs at UiB. The workshop will be held in English, and due to a limited places at the venue, please sign up in the link provided (deadline: 28.11.2023).
Have you ever heard of the European Marine Board (EMB)? Maybe you have seen its name once or twice, but you’re not really sure what it is? Look no further than to this webinar!
Foto/ill.: Reidar Elven, Artsdatabanken/ IPBES/UiB
When: 8.30-10.30
Where: Egget, Studentsenteret
Welcome to an open meeting with experts from The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services 7. December.
This provides a unique opportunity to have a conversation with IPBES to learn about the important work of IPBES and explore different meaning roles and ways academia, NGOs and other stakeholders in Bergen could take part in the science-policy interface at local, national, and global levels.
Program and registration: https://www.uib.no/en/news/166563/meet-ipbes
Welcome!
Instituttleder Ørjan Totland. Foto: Eivind Senneset, UiB
Hei alle,
The dean will come to us on Monday next week (VilVite, 2pm). One of the issues she will focus on is a new name for the Faculty. It’s exciting and I think it might be good to consider a new name that reflects the faculty’s academic activity in an even better way. The matter will be heard by the institute these days.
Another issue that will affect BIO and the entire rest of our sector is the new funding system. Most of you have probably realized that there will be even greater emphasis on our educational activity in the reward part of the funding model that distributes funds to universities. A process will now be initiated internally at UiB which will look at which components are to be included in the further distribution of funds downwards to faculties and departments (here the institutions are free to choose their own models). Basically, I think it is stupid that the new model at institutional level does not include incentives aimed at our research activity (publication points, payment from external funding). As of now, I am unsure how an incentive system that only focuses on our educational activity will turn out purely financially for BIO. If we manage to improve implementation among our students (and we should!), it can have a positive effect. We will definitely come back to this issue.
I would like to remind you of the deadline for registration for our HSE day and Christmas party (December 5), which is November 26. Sign up and take part in the community!
The PhD/post doc group organizes a Christmas party on 1 December. Everyone is invited. See the flyer below for more information and registration. I hope many find the time.
And last but not least, I encourage everyone who can to stop by the Student Poster Session which takes place at VilVite Tuesday 28. November.
I wish you all a good and relaxing weekend.
Dear colleagues,
Thank you for all responses we received for our work environment survey. We have received a total of 104 responds, distributed as shown in the graph above. We plan to present the results from the survey in the HSE-meeting in December.
Foto: privat
Mika Helene Kirkhus, stipendiat
Hi, I am Mika, and I just started my PhD with Vigdis Vandvik (UiB) and Håvard Kauserud (UiO), as part of the DURIN project. I am staying at UiO until the summer of 2024 to learn more about fungal metabarcoding with the “Oslo Mycology Group”, which is a major part of my project. Next autumn I will move to Bergen to be part of the research group “Between the Fjords”.
