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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?
Justin Tongun poster at CAPGAN
CIH PhD Student Wins Poster Prize (02.10.2017)
Justin Tongun is a PhD student at the Centre for International Health (CIH). His home is in South-Sudan.
Getachew TESHOME and Lelisa FEKADU
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.
Ugleprisen 2017
Pertinent and Innovative MOOC (18.09.2017)
UiB’s highest education prize for 2017, the Owl Prize, has been awarded to the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), “Occupational Health in Developing Countries”.
EADI NORDIC 2017
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.
WASO Conference
Turning the page to a new chapter (04.07.2017)
Global Challenges at UiB salutes Kristin Holst Paulsen.
Professor Peter M. Haugan from the University of Bergen at the UN Ocean Conference in New York in June 2017.
Between research and diplomacy (20.06.2017)
Professor Peter M. Haugan has long participated in high level work in the United Nations, building partnerships between science and diplomacy.
Students registering for summer school
The Bergen Summer Research School has started (12.06.2017)
The Bergen Summer Research School started 12th June with the registration at Studentsenteret! Almost 100 PhD candidates participate and they are very welcome.
PACIFIC PARTNERS: UiB's Jarl Giske (left) and USP's Rajesh Chandra launching a unique joint marine chair at the UN Ocean Conference in New York, thus strengthening the ties between the two universities.
Bergen and Fiji expand partnership (08.06.2017)
The University of Bergen and the University of the South Pacific announced the establishment of a joint marine chair at a reception during the UN Ocean Conference.
Dead fish on a beach, used to illustrate article about voluntary commitment on a marine research and education project on sustainability.
Strengthening marine cooperation in Africa (06.06.2017)
At the United Nations Ocean Conference in New York, the University of Bergen has committed to support a research and education project with South African partners.
Solomon Island
The Global Anthropology of Climate Change (06.06.2017)
Climate change is said to be the greatest global challenge of our time, but it is also a contested topic. How do we talk about these issues - from everyday life to the meetings of policy makers - and what are the consequences? Join the course SANT285 if you want to engage in discussions about climate change in a post-factual world.
From the performance Moana: the Rising of the Sea at Oseana Art Centre in Os, south of Bergen, in 2015.
UiB expands collaboration in the Pacific (01.06.2017)
At the United Nations Ocean Conference in the first week of June 2017, anthropologist Edvard Hviding established new partnerships between Norway and the Pacific island nations in marine and climate research.

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