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Global Challenges

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Global challenges affect us all — they are complex and interdisciplinary by nature, and influence how we work and collaborate across disciplines at the University of Bergen.

 

 

GLOBAL ACADEMIC NETWORK
Professor Hakan G. Sicakkan from the University of Bergen speaking at the launch of the UN Global Academic Network of migration experts in Geneva in December 2019.

Bringing science to Global Refugee Forum

The University of Bergen political scientist Hakan G. Sicakkan has been named as one of the members in the UN Global Academic Network of migration experts.

BERGEN SUMMER RESEARCH SCHOOL 2020
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Actionable knowledge to meet global challenges

How can your research contribute to solving global challenges? How do you design, conduct and communicate research to stimulate social change? And how do you create actionable knowledge?

KANGAROO MOTHER CARE
Kangaroo Mother Care.

Kangaroo Mother Care Reduces Infant Mortality

When newborn babies with low birth weight are held close to their mother´s bodies throughout the day, their chance of survival increases substantially.

RESEARCH | MEDICINE
Heart failure

Half of women with heart failure get the wrong treatment

As many as 50 per cent of women suffering from cardiac arrest are given insufficient treatment, because the heart failure was not caused by a heart attack.

30 years collaboration
Makerere Breakfast Seminar

Celebrating Depth, Relevance, and Impact

Following celebrations held at Makerere University in Uganda last month, UiB hosted a breakfast seminar at Christie Café with participants in the many collaborative activities on-going at the University of Bergen.

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Bergen Global is a meeting space where researchers, students, and others share their work and analysis of global challenges. This arena is a joint project between the University of Bergen and Chr Michelsen Institute. Here you will find lectures, debates, seminars, literary salons, and other events—free and open to all!
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Bergen Summer Research School invites 100 PhD-candidates to Bergen every year to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing the world. Shaped by some of Bergen's best research groups, we address key global challenges through high quality disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and problem oriented research-based PhD courses.
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