Funding for collaborative projects within Global Challenges 2026
Global Challenges has allocated funds to stimulate academic cross-faculty collaboration - application deadline 1 March 2026.
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Global Challenges (GSU) is one of three priority areas where the University of Bergen aims to build on the university’s unique position to promote academic mobilisation and interdisciplinary collaboration.
GSU wants to stimulate collaboration across faculties and is announcing seed funds for this purpose. A minimum of two faculties must be involved in the collaboration. The application must clarify how the activity can be linked to the topic of inequality, in one or more of the phenomenon's many dimensions, and how the activity is relevant to global challenges.
Funds are allocated for meetings, seminars and other activities that can contribute to developing cross-faculty research projects. Applications should include specific plans for further research collaboration and submission of applications to external funding sources.
The call is aimed at academic staff at postdoc, researcher, associate professor and professor level with a main position at UiB. Applicants early in their careers are encouraged to apply.
Application deadline: 1 March 2026
Applications will be assessed according to the following dimensions:
- Academic quality and relevance to global challenges
- Degree of innovative interdisciplinary collaboration
- The contribution of the activity to the applicant's career development or development of the academic community
- Effective use of allocated funds
- Budget with clarification of which costs the requested amount is to cover (particularly relevant where the activity overlaps with other funding sources)