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Renewal of The UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management (20.09.2023)
UiB's UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management - Nature and Culture was recently up for renewal, and four new years were granted on September 18. Professor Inger Elisabeth Måren (Department of Biological Sciences) continues as the chair holder.
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Remembering SDG Conference Bergen 2023 (08.09.2023)
In February 2023, the sixth SDG Conference Bergen took place. For the third year running the conference was digital, with more than 1,500 participants from 117 countries. We have collected the programme and recordings of the sessions on this page.
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Spitzer has been awarded the prestigeous ERC Starting Grant (01.09.2023)
«This is an opportunity to tackle prominent but largely-overlooked challenges plaguing the frontiers of developed liberal democracies» Aaron Spitzer says.
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Asthma, obesity and poor lung function may be linked to teenage smoking among fathers (31.08.2023)
Children of fathers who smoked in their early teens have a greater risk of developing asthma, obesity and low lung function, new research from the University of Bergen and the University of Southampton shows.
Preben Aavitsland
Professor at the Pandemic Center leads two international committees (17.08.2023)
Professor Preben Aavitsland at the Pandemic Center is head of two international committees appointed by WHO's Director-General to advise WHO on how the covid-19 pandemic and mpox-outbreak should be handled in the coming years.
The five PhDs Leonce Leandry, Innocent Sosoma, Elimercy Ntagalinda, Abdul-rahman Mumbu, and Zabibu Afazali visited the University of Bergen for the annual meeting of the Math4SDG project.
Using mathematics to fight disease (19.06.2023)
In June 2023 the project Math4SDG held its annual meeting in Bergen. We met up with five PhDs in the project to discuss how they will use applied mathematics to combat infectious disease and how the project aims to increase mathematical literacy in Tanzania and Uganda.
Denne steinen er fra havbunnen og er bygget av små stilker skapt av jernspisende bakterier.
Diving into deep-sea mining would be reckless (07.06.2023)
“We ask for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining until more research has been conducted on the consequences of such interventions for life in the ocean. Norway must take an international initiative for more research into this,” says biology professor Lise Øvreås from the University of Bergen on World Ocean Day.
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A face-to-face summer research school, at last! (05.06.2023)
This week, more than 70 PhD students from all over the world assemble in Bergen for the annual Bergen Summer Research Schools—for the first time since the pandemic.
Apply for the interdiciplinary PhD-course at the Pandemic Centre! (31.05.2023)
In October, the Pandemic Center offers an interdisciplinary course for students on learning from the covid-19 pandemic. The course is primarily aimed at PhD candidates and will address a number of exciting issues in collaboration with some of the leading professionals at UiB.
Ingrid Halland’s keynote lecture ‘Towards Deep Surfaces’ at the symposium Living Prototypes at Aedes Architekturforum, Berlin (2022). Photo: Aedes Architekturforum
"Sustainability needs to look different" (16.05.2023)
Ingrid Halland is convinced that the materials of a more sustainable future cannot mimic the aesthetics belonging to the paradigms we must leave behind.
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The Arctic Is a «Living Laboratory» According to Aaron Spitzer (04.05.2023)
Assistant professor at UiB, Aaron Spitzer says his «life’s work» has involved seeking to understand, and trying somehow to be useful to, Arctic peoples and places.
Manuel Insberg
‘I promise you my country will help you’ ‬- Promissory acts within the Norwegian refugee regime‬‬ (02.05.2023)
Promises play an integral part in refugee regimes of Western liberal democracies. They appear in political speeches, bureaucratic procedures, legal texts on asylum, or integration programs. In this IMER seminar, Manuel Insberg explores how promissory acts constitute the relationship between refugees and the receiving society and engender powerful images of the future, drawing on data from his... Read more
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Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funding 2023 (27.04.2023)
Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions for 2023-2024. Deadline 7 June, 2023.
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Declaration on "Pandemic, diversity and social inequality" (18.04.2023)
During the conference on "Pandemic, diversity and social inequality" in Bergen in October, researchers started working on a declaration based on knowledge and experiences from the pandemic. The declaration has now been published and is open to read.
Statsraad Lehmkuhl
UiB events during One Ocean Week 2023 (11.04.2023)
On Saturday 15 April tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl returns to Bergen and this marks the start of the first annual One Ocean Week. The city centre of Bergen will be one big festival of ocean related events. This page shows the University of Bergen's activities during the week. All activities are free and open to all, except where otherwise indicated.
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Do Wars breed Nationalism? (11.04.2023)
Carlo Koos from the Department of Government is one of the authors of this new article published in American Political Science Review.
Professor Edvard Hviding (centre) from the University of Bergen with Vanuatu’s UN Ambassador Odo Tevi (right) and Solomon Yeo (left) from the activist organisation Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change.
Pacific youth action leads to UN resolution on climate change (31.03.2023)
On 29 March the UN General Assembly passed a resolution put forward by Vanuatu to provide an advisory opinion on UN member states obligations in protecting the rights of current and future generations from the adverse effects of climate change.
Archeologist Tore Sætersdal at the UN 2023 Water Conference in March 2023.
Reflecting on the UN 2023 Water Conference (29.03.2023)
Archaeologist Tore Sætersdal has been a water scientist for many years. In March 2023 he participated in the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York. In this interview, he reflects upon his experiences at the conference.

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