Section for External funding and Legal issues

• Pioneer role towards UiB's professional environments with regard to mobilization and preparation of project applications

• Ongoing information about research funding

• Coordinates application processes that require prioritization at institutional level and large institutional commitments

• Responsible for the long-term follow-up of major initiatives where research funding institutions make demands for institutional follow-up at UiB

• Contribute to BOA team work

• Dialogue with main research funding sources (EU, NFR, PPC, etc.)

• Collaborate with UiB's Brussels office

• Participates in networks of interest to UiB

• LEAR for UiB

• Contracts (such as research contracts, intentional agreements, confidentiality statements, cooperation agreements, biological material agreements (MTAs etc.)

• Negotiation, counseling and follow-up of research contracts

• Regulations

• Close collaborators and edge zones

• Business and innovation

• Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

• Secretariat function for infrastructure selection and management forum for innovation