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Greetings from the department – 20. May 2022

Foto: Eivind Senneset, UiB

Hello everyone,
I hope you all had a good May 17 celebration in fine weather. I had the pleasure of joining the parade with the rest of UiB and it was nice that we were a small group there from BIO. We would like to be more, so next year we will mobilize properly.

Yesterday I sent out an overview of the areas we want to sell to the Estate and Facilities Management Division (EIA). There are still some clarifications needed before everything is completely clear, especially in relation to MBS (Espegrend) and the areas in the A-block. We will have a new meeting with EIA and the Faculty next week. In any case, I expect that we can start moving soon. We have an ambition to get most things done before the summer, but we will of course take into account holiday arrangements, exam completion and of course lab operations. We will be back soon with more info and detailed planning of the process further.

Frank Nilsen has received a new EU project. It is very gratifying, congratulates Frank. Now that the NFR seems to have to tighten up, the EU will become even more important as a source of funding for our activities in the future. I have mentioned earlier that we at BIO should turn more of our efforts towards the EU, and in this connection we are arranging an information meeting on EU funding, together with the FIA, on 30 May. I hope for a good turnout and that we see the opportunities here.

Good news: BIO received funding from Meltzer to arrange a academic-social day. We need that. The focus will be on external funding, especially the EU. We aim to arrange this in early autumn.

There is full pressure on the submission of master’s theses, with a deadline of 1 June, and the completion of the master’s examination at the moment. As you know, we will have an internal examiner for each master’s exam, and I ask you all to join the ranks when you are asked by the study administration. And I thank you all who are involved for an outstanding effort in implementing this for the benefit of our master’s students and BIO.

Have a good weekend everyone,

Ørjan

BIO News, Research

The overlooked role of small fish to fight malnutrition

BLUE ECONOMY: Small-scale fisheries provide hope to fight malnutrition among large parts of the world population, illustrated by this photo from Zanzibar of the boat Uchumi Bluu, which means “blue economy” in Swahili. Foto/ill.:
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The Norad supported project “Samaki”, which means fish in Swahili, unites Norwegian researchers with colleagues in Tanzania to study how small-scale fisheries are the key to combat malnutrition. This is part of a bigger picture in the fight for scarce resources and on the question whether small fish should be used as food for humans or become fish food?

Samaki is a research and capacity building project led by UiT – the Arctic University of Norway with several partners from Norway and Tanzania. The University of Bergen (UiB) is a key partner in the project with Professors Jeppe Kolding and Ragnhild Overå involved. The project is financed for six years with NOK 20 million from the Norwegian Agency for Development (Norad).

Read the whole story at www.uib.no

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Søknadsprosedyre for tokt i 2023

GO Sars. Foto: forskning.no

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Nå er det tid for å søke tokttid for 2023. Som noen av dere er kjent med er det et nytt verktøy for søknader og administrasjon av tokt. Prinsippene for søknad, prioritering, kvoter og tildeling er imidlertid de samme.

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