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.
Feeling safe and included in the group Foto: colorbox.com
Good contact and communication when planning a visit allows both parties to clarify goals and expectations of each other, and thus ensure that they actually achieve what was the purpose of the visit.
- The guest researchers gets a head start with the work and greater benefit from their stay.
-The host research group have time to make plans for how to included the guest into the their work and thus improve the possibility that the guest´s expertise can be utilized by the group.
- The departments with limited office space and facilities available will want to prioritize accepting visitors who already have ties to the researchers at the institute.
If you for various reasons would like to be a visting researcher here, but do not have any contacts, we can try to help you, but it would be more difficult. Please contact us at: researcher-helpdesk@uib.no. We would also require you to document your purpose of visit, what you hope to achieve and how you will finance your visit.
Last updated 22.3.2013
- Internationalisation