News archive for Global Challenges

The annual Bergen Summer Research School brings together 65 young scholars from 29 countries around the world. What unites them is a shared focus on this year’s theme: Ocean Expectations.

Global Challenges has allocated funds to stimulate academic cross-faculty collaboration - application deadline 1 March 2026.

Africa–Europe research collaborations must move beyond narrow notions of “equitable partnerships” and towards a research system in which African institutions shape agendas, methods and benefits on equal terms.

The two new projects will strengthen a global network for sustainable energy storage and Norwegian-Ugandan cooperation on global health. The partnerships will provide new initiatives and opportunities for international collaboration for students and staff at UiB, as well as for the partners.

Hybrid intelligence is the future, according to Professor Barbara Wasson. She will head the new research centre AI LEARN, which will conduct research on the interaction between human and artificial intelligence (AI) over the next five years.

PhD candidate Sejal Pramlall is one of five young ocean researchers to be given the French Institute Nordic Award (FINA). The award will fund her participation at the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice in France in June.

In the side event “License to Operate – The Arctic Energy Transition” at Arctic Frontiers 2025, stakeholders from across sectors joined forces to discuss the challenges lying ahead for the Arctic and the green transition of energy markets in a geopolitically challenging situation.

We now welcome applications to host an event as part of Day Zero at the SDG Conference Bergen, 5 February 2025. This is the free, all-digital day of events on the day before the SDG Conference plenary programme starts.