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From all over the world to research school in Bergen (14.06.2018)

For the eleventh consecutive year, almost one hundred PhD candidates from all over the world have found their way to Bergen to tackle global challenges.

Political scientist Hakan G. Sicakkan, anthropologists Christine M. Jacobsen and Synnøve Bendixsen and sociologist Susanne Bygnes of the Bergen International Migration and Ethnic Relations Research Unit (IMER), photo shot in May 2018.

Sharing research results and analysis on migration policy (30.05.2018)

Different aspects and paradigms of European asylum policy were presented when the University of Bergen held a one-day migration conference in Brussels.

Statkraft head office seen from Lysaker train station.

Branding 'Pure Energy' as CSR (12.04.2018)

Ingrid Müftüoglu has been to Statkraft's headquarters in Oslo where she examined how CSR is articulated and performed.

Presenting UiB’s diverse migration research (15.03.2018)

Migration researchers from six of seven Faculties at the University of Bergen (UiB) gathered for a day-long symposium to highlight the contribution of UiB's research to understanding international migration.

Nordic welfare research presented in Cape Town (12.03.2018)

Professor Emeritus Stein Kuhnle is known for sharing his research on the welfare state internationally. His last stop was in South Africa, where a collaboration has led to the creation of SANORD - the South African Nordic Centre.

Fighting child mortality in Uganda (23.02.2018)

Researcher Victoria Nankabirwa is leading two research projects that aim to reduce child mortality in Uganda.

Belo Horizonte is the sixth largest city in Brazil and capital of the South-eastern state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Funds for cooperation projects in Global Challenges (06.02.2018)

Strategy area for Global Challenges has allocated funds to promote scientific interfaculty cooperation in 2018.

Mare Nullius: Professor Edvard Hviding awarded Toppforsk grant (05.02.2018)

Social anthropologist Edvard Hviding is one of three University of Bergen researchers to receive five years of major funding from the prestigious Toppforsk programme, awarded by the Research Council of Norway, for his project Mare Nullius.

Siddharth Sareen, Jakob Grandin and Tarje Wanvik

SDGs change the role of universities (30.01.2018)

If universities are to contribute to societal attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals, it requires them to take on a different role, posit SpaceLab/CET researchers.

Bergen in front as part of Norway's international leadership role in ocean management (26.01.2018)

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has established an international high-level panel for a sustainable ocean economy. The University of Bergen looks forward to being part of this marine effort and contribute with scientific advice.

Professor Gunnar Håland 80 years - a personal greeting from Khartoum (25.01.2018)

The first doctorate of UiB’s Faculty of Social Sciences was awarded to Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed at the Department of Social Anthropology. His relationship with Professor Gunnar Håland started when he accommodated this "European" who was looking for a place to stay during a Sudan visit in the 1960s. Read Professor Ahmed's celebration of Gunnar here.

Kjersti Fløttum ved det franske miljødepartementet

Language and climate issues in Paris (21.12.2017)

Professor Kjersti Fløttum, Department of foreign languages at the University of Bergen (UiB) was invited to have a lecture and attend a meeting in the French Ministry of Environment, Energy and Sea in Paris 17th Dec 2017.

Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Government of Norway.

Prime minister to speak at SDG conference (27.11.2017)

Prime Minister Erna Solberg is one of the key note speakers at the Sustainable Development Goals conference at the University of Bergen, 8-9 February, 2018.

Action needed to fight child poverty (17.11.2017)

Poverty researchers, policymakers and NGOs put forward six concrete measures to break the inter-generational cycle of poverty in Africa.

Waiting in Sweden (07.11.2017)

Social anthropologist and WAIT researcher Shahram Khosravi is currently carrying out fieldwork among irregular migrants in Stockholm.

Agenda 2030: An Ocean of Opportunities for Academia (05.10.2017)

How do we know that our activities for utilization of research have effects that benefit sustainable development?

Meet Some Capacity Builders (26.09.2017)

Five «students» been selected to take part in the capacity-building project funded by the Gates Foundation. Here we meet Lelisa Fekadu and Getachew Teshome.

Globalisation at the Crossroads (28.08.2017)

Around 450 researchers, students, practitioners and policy-makers from nearly 70 countries made their way to Bergen for the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) 2017 conference.

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