Section for External funding and Legal issues
External funding
• 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
Legal issues
• 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)
Other areas
• Secretariat function for infrastructure selection and management forum for innovation
