Establishing Contact

The university receives many requests from researchers wanting to visit for a short period. Usually you will have the best chance to succeed in making a research visit, if you first establish contact with our researchers in your field.

Emigration Notification

Welcome to the opening of UiB's International Week 2012

Opening of the week at "Kvarteret", the Student House. Do not miss this afternoon at the student house. Listen to inspirational presentations about China, Russia and India, music from UiB's own international students, taste some typical Russian, Chinese, Indian, Japanese or Brazilian food and take part in a variety of cultural events throughout the evening.

Global and Development related Research

Global and development-related research is one of two priority areas for research at the University of Bergen.

The Compostela Group

The Compostela Group of Universities is a non-profit association aimed at fostering cooperation and promoting dialogue in all fields related to higher education.

Studiemuligheter i utlandet på bachelorprogram i biologi

Tilrettelagte delstudium i utlandet

General Agreements - Asia

University of the Arctic

”In the North, For the North, By the North – Towards a Sustainable World” is the motto for the University of the Arctic.

General Agreements - Oceania

General Agreements - Africa

General Agreements - Latin America

General Agreements - Europe

Euraxess Contact Point

The University of Bergen is part of a network of more than 200 Euraxess centres located in 35 European countries.

What is happening Where and When during International Week 2013?

Here is an overview of the various events that will take place during UiB's International Week 2013.

tropEd – European Master of Science Programme in International Health

A 60 ECTS Master’s programme in international health involving 7 European and 3 non-European universities.

The Utrecht Network

The group consists of twenty-eight members (representing thirty-one universities) which cooperate in the area of internationalisation in the broadest sense of the word.

Researchers with Own Funding

Financial support for stays abroad

The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry offers grants for research stays abroad for scientific staff.

European University Association

The European University Association, as the representative organisation of both the European universities and the national rectors' conferences, is the main voice of the higher education community in Europe.

The Utrecht Network

The group consists of twenty-eight members (representing thirty-one universities) which cooperate in the area of internationalisation in the broadest sense of the word.

Semester Startup Brochure

The information brochure Semester Startup provides new international students with neccessary and practical information about semester registration, obtaining a user account, student ID card, residence permit and much more.

SPIRE

The Strategic Programme for International Research and Education (SPIRE).

All Agreements - North America

Extreme Weather Report

A new UN report shows that the number of extreme weather events has increased, in part because of man-made climate change.

Repairing the damage

Elaine Scarry believes that nuclear weapons are an invisible threat that we ignore at our peril.

Gambler’s Paradise

Since the division of Cyprus in 1974, one of the few arenas for social contact between the Greek and the Turkish has been the casinos of the island nation.

Video interview with Holberg Prize winner Bruno Latour

The French academic Bruno Latour received the Holberg Prize for 2013 at a ceremony in Håkonshallen in Bergen on Wednesday 5 June.

A prize for basic research

The Kavli Prize is awarded to researchers in the fields of astrophysics, nano science, and neuro science. The man behind the prize, Fred Kavli, recently visited Bergen.

Capacity building in Ethiopia

Rector Sigmund Grønmo signed a new collaboration agreement with the Armauer Hansen Research Institute and bolstered relations with Addis Ababa University on a visit to the Ethiopian capital.

BSRS 2013: application deadline 12 March

The sixth Bergen Summer Research School will focus on food as a global development challenge.

The Power of Italian Media

– I will not touch your wallets, Silvio Berlusconi promised the Italian people. Marco Gargiulo believes that the political rhetoric in Italy has become shallow and simplistic.

Fighting the obesity epidemic

A UiB research project into diabetes and obesity has received a grant of 17.6 million Norwegian kroner from the European Research Council.

The ethics of global health

A research project looking at how to achieve more equal health distribution on a global basis has received a grant from Worldwide Universities Network.

New Research about Facebook Addiction

Are you a social media enthusiast or simply a Facebook addict? Researchers from Norway have developed a new instrument to measure Facebook addiction, the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale.

Local forum, global issues

Next week 75 students and young scientists from all over the world gather for the fourth annual Bergen Summer Research School. Once again the aim is to focus on global issues, and to promote dialogue and foster interdisciplinary collaboration.

The World of UiB

Every year close to 1,000 new international students arrive in Bergen. Most arrive in the autumn, but about 250 arrive for the spring semester. Meet some of them in this video.

Social Scientist wins Holberg Prize

Manuel Castells has been awarded the Holberg International Memorial Award for 2012, whereas Sara Hobolt of the University of Oxford receives the Nils Klim Prize for 2012.

Norwegian law in the global arena

The world outside is knocking on Norway’s door. This creates new and challenging issues for legal professionals that will change the legal landscape in the next few years.

Academic Transformers

The higher education system needs to transform itself to solve the global challenges of poverty reduction, health policy, and climate change.

UiB leap in elite ratings

From 2005 to 2011 the University of Bergen has climbed 199 positions in the QS rankings of the world’s elite universities.

Academia meets the community

This year’s Christie conference is just around the corner. Wednesday 25 April Grieghallen will resound with conversations inspired by panel discussions and lectures.

How your genes can solve obesity

What roles do diet and genetics play in the development of obesity and diabetes? The answer may be found in a unique Norwegian study of mothers and children.

Providing new options for treatment

Researchers at Haukeland University Hospital and the University of Bergen have discovered a previously unknown gene defect in people with chronic diarrhoea.

Preserving Sudan’s television archive

The University of Bergen (UiB) is set to lead a project to scan, digitise and preserve the audio-visual archives of the Sudan Radio and Television Corporation.

Grateful for kind words

The University of Bergen has received words of sympathy from friends and partners from all over the world after the terror of 22 July.

Space centre opening at UiB

Birkeland Centre for Space Science is one of UiB’s new Centres of Excellence. The centre opened on 7 March 2013.

Redefining poverty

– If we are to fight poverty, we need to communicate more clearly through the media and to get across that poverty is a human rights issue, says Alberto Cimadamore.

Oil trouble in North Dakota

Major oil discoveries in North Dakota are creating problems in the sparsely populated American state. Now a UiB project formulates solutions to the problems.

Research focus on Migration

Now in its fifth year, Bergen Summer Research School will this time focus on transnational migration. The application deadline is 15 February.

Better Writing Through Chemistry

The conference ”Literature and Chemistry: Elective Affinities” is the point were the classic arts of writing and alchemy meet in a modern scientific context.

UiB Global Launches Newsletter to Highlight Research on Development Challenges

Global and development-related research is one of UiB’s two priority areas. UiB Global's newsletter highlights the scope and diversity of this field at the University of Bergen.

Interplay of Grief

Interaction and grief are the main components of a contemporary requiem performance at The Grieg Academy.

Humans, animals and our fragile earth

For the next two weeks social anthropologist Vigdis Broch-Due is guest essayist at renowned website On The Human.

More UiB research with EU

Over the last 30 years, University of Bergen researchers have increasingly been working with colleagues in the EU when publishing in scientific publications.

BSRS 2013: Food as a Global Development Challenge

The Bergen Summer Research School 2013 will take place from June 17th to June 29th. The deadline for applications has been extended to 17th of March.

A foreign welcome

More than 500 international students arrived in Bergen last week to start or continue their studies at the University of Bergen.

A primer in life and death

Who receives medical care when resources are scarce? To make those hard decisions, researchers at UiB have worked on a guide with the World Health Organization.

Poverty: the truth behind the numbers

Professor Thomas Pogge opened this year’s Bergen Summer Research School with a keynote lecture, where he put the fight against hunger into perspective.

Candidates Offer Different Visions for Strengthening Global and Development-Related Research

At a debate on 19th March both rectoral candidate teams committed to securing and strengthening global and development-related research at UiB.

Arctic science goes tropical

Climate change in Asia is the latest focus area for researchers at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.

All set for Chinese studies

The University of Bergen establishes a new Bachelor programme in Chinese and makes changes to ease the academic progress for Psychology students.

Driven to work

Researchers from the University of Bergen have developed a new instrument to measure work addiction: The Bergen Work Addiction Scale.

Assisting international staff

At the new Service centre for International Mobility at UiB staff will be on hand to help non-Norwegian staff with relocation issues. The centre is now open.

Going international in Bergen

The diversity at the University of Bergen will be celebrated in international student week 19–23 September.

A local global forum

This year the Bergen Summer Research School takes place for the fifth time. Once again, issues of globalisation are discussed in this interdisciplinary forum. We traced the roots of the summer school with founding mother Kjersti Fløttum.

Around the world in three units

There are children from 21 different countries at Fantoft Gård kindergarten. This probably explains why the personnel have become experts on international children.

A very large family

Jill Walker Rettberg is hard at work trying to bring together up to 40,000 alumni of the University of Bergen. The UiB alumnni project kicked off with an event in London on 31 August.

Summer Here Kids

It was an emotional farewell for students and lecturers alike as this year’s Bergen Summer Research School came to an end last Friday.

Arabic to the masses

This week’s international Arabic workshop could hardly take place at a more suitable time, given the interest in Islam and the uprisings in the Middle East.

The world comes to UiB

Norms, values, language and culture is the theme for the 2011 Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS). This international, interdisciplinary research School attracts participants from all over the world. The deadline for applications is getting closer.

Facing up to non-communicable diseases

University of Bergen researchers have contributed to an international declaration on the prevention of non-communicable diseases. Now the UN is discussing the issue.

With a passion for Bergen

Norwegian nature and the unique character of Bergen are the main pulls for international students who study at UiB.

Mythical, Wise, and Dangerous

The Eurasian eagle owl is the symbol of the University of Bergen. It represents wisdom and knowledge. Now, this most dangerous of predators is itself threatened with extinction.

Celebrating 25 years together

A delegation from UiB headed by Rector Sigmund Grønmo visited Makerere University to celebrate 25 years of collaboration between the two universities.

An international experience

The Faculty of Psychology held its third International Day on Wednesday 18 January. More than 50 former and present exchange students shared their experiences with students interested in studying abroad.

Wuthering heights

The City Mountains of Bergen are typically Norwegian and covered with needle-bearing trees and birch. At least that’s what the locals would like to believe.

Sleep problems cost billions

Insomnia and sleep apnoea are turning us into major health service consumers, causing us to be less productive at work, and may even lead to serious accidents.

Dialogue by music

– To play, perform and teach anything of value, you have to be present in the moment, Bud Beyer says. He is one of the world’s premier drama instructors and was a guest at UiB.

Building international ties that last

Rector Sigmund Grønmo looks with satisfaction at how UiB has contributed to capacity building at our collaborating universities in the south.

Record number of international students

The University of Bergen welcomes 715 new international students this autumn. A new record. The students first meeting with UiB is a crash course in how to be a student in Bergen.

Attracting attention worldwide

According to an international ranking, the Centre for International Health is one of the world’s most influential health policy think tanks.

UiB remains in the top 200

Despite slipping a few places, the University of Bergen kept its position amongst the world’s 200 leading universities in this year’s Times Higher Education rankings.

Migration narratives

The subject of the fifth Bergen Summer Research School is «Transnational Migration and Global Development».

Symbols in a cave

Archaeological finds in South Africa shed new light on early human's abilities to adapt to climate change.

Yoann Martin visiting EvoFish

EvoFish is happy to welcome Yoann Martin from Montpellier in our rows for this summer!

An international mind

UiB’s new rector Dag Rune Olsen looks forward to building on the university’s successes in past years. But what are his own plans for taking UiB further?

Meet the world at UiB

At UiB, we hope that most students study abroad for a part of their degree. See the film from the opening of International week, and learn why international student mobility is so important.

Ambitious about Education

The quality of the learning process and more international exchange is top of the agenda in UiB’s Education strategy for 2012.

Norwegian-Ugandan Friendship

This month Grace Ndeezi from Uganda will defend the first joint PhD from Makerere University and the University of Bergen.

Welcoming new students

– Our advice to new international students at UiB is to take part in the introductory programme when they arrive in Bergen, Karine Skavhellen says.

Shen Gongming visiting EvoFish

EvoFish has a pleasure of hosting Shen Gongming, a visiting scholar from the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences.

UiB sets new doctorate record

Never before have so many doctorates been awarded at the University of Bergen. The number of international doctorates is also higher than ever before.

Staff Mobility Week 2013

Every year the University of Bergen invites administrative staff from international partner universities to share ideas and best practices from their work.

Design success for UiB and partners

Thousands of guests were attracted by the stunning design of the UH Nett Vest stand at the EAIE conference in Copenhagen.

Accompanying spouse/partner?

New offer for international researchers: The INN Spouse Club

UiB at a crossroad

In April 2011 the board of the University of Bergen adopted the university’s strategy for the next four years. Amongst the goals is an even stronger international presence.

Iron Man

Mahmoud Suliman Bashir’s love for the weapons and ornaments of the Iron Age made him one of the stars of the BBC series “Lost Kingdoms of Africa”.

Academia: a brake on UN development goals

Creating transdisciplinary dialogue between academia and experts from outside will help in the work to achieve the United Nation’s millennium development goals.

A world without poverty

CROP works to challenge a status quo that keeps 1.2 billion of the world’s population in extreme poverty.

Providing a Special Edition Math Book for South Sudanese Students

By making a deal with a textbook publisher, professor Tor Sørevik at UiB found a way to empower South Sudanese students in difficult circumstances.

Surviving pandemics

So far, the tobacco plant has done more harm than good. But in the future, the plant may be used as part of a life-saving vaccine.

Best for Informatics

The University of Bergen’s Department of Informatics has been rated the best of its kind in Norway. The Department is also internationally recognised.

Work in the Balance

The Chinese are not content with economic growth alone. To create the perfect society they now want to learn how to improve their quality of life too.

Fleeing the water

– Three hundred million people will become climate refugees by 2050. This will lead to political changes in Europe, thinks Atiq Rahman, director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies.

Part-time professor – fulltime commitment

A highly dedicated part-time professor gives the PhD-students at the Faculty of Psychology a great opportunity to visit a highly recognized sleep lab at the University of California, Berkeley. - An important resource to our doctoral education, says the vice-dean of research at the faculty.

Meeting foreign cultures

To fully participate in the business world of tomorrow, knowledge of language and culture needs to move beyond English.