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The robot Pepper supports patients at Japanese Nursing Homes.
Handling elder boom with robots (20.06.2018)
Japan´s elderly people constitute a growing proportion of the population. Norway will face this same situation within 20 years. As Japan is solving the challenge by increasing the use of robots, Norway is tending to focus on conversation and personal contact, says Professor Bettina S. Husebø at SEFAS.
Feltfoto som viser bredden i forskningen ved Institutt for sosialantropologi ved Universitetet i Bergen (UiB).
Several elite research groups in social sciences evaluation (19.06.2018)
On 19 June 2018, the Research Council of Norway's evaluation of the social sciences in Norway – SAMEVAL – was presented. One department and three research groups at the University of Bergen are awarded top grades in the evaluation.
På vei over Høyden
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.
Synposium
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.
Kuhnle og Tabscott
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.
Victoria Nankabirwa
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.
Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands
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.
Erna
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.
Gunnar Håland 80 år
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.
Child holding teddy
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.
Stockholm
Waiting in Sweden (07.11.2017)
Social anthropologist and WAIT researcher Shahram Khosravi is currently carrying out fieldwork among irregular migrants in Stockholm.
SDSN meeting
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?

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