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China’s role in Africa: What now? (05.03.2021)
Over the past decade, China has emerged as a large actor on the African continent – primarily through trade, investment and as provider of development finance. But China is increasingly also playing a more direct political role.
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UiB joins Global Coalition to protect biodiversity (02.03.2021)
On World Wildlife Day 3 March 2021, the University of Bergen becomes the first Norwegian institution and first university worldwide to join the European Commission’s Global Coalition United for Biodiversity.
Amund Maage (right) and Giulia Testa speaking at a session during the 2021 SDG Conference Bergen.
Solutions for coastal communities post COVID (02.03.2021)
Is investing in coastal and marine ecosystem restoration and protection the way to stimulate the blue economy post COVID-19? This was one of the questions in a special parallel session on coastal communities at the 2021 SDG Conference Bergen.
Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ine Eriksen Søreide speaking at the opening of the 2021 SDG Conference Bergen on Thursday 11 February.
SDG Conference Bergen becomes global success (16.02.2021)
A global audience of more than 2,600 watched as Norway’s Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide opened the 2021 SDG Conference Bergen discussing issues of climate change, stable institutions and inequality as the conference went virtual – and viral.
Associate Professor Sofie Høgestøl from the University of Oslo with the logo for the 2021 SDG Conference Bergen.
From political pundit to the SDGs (08.02.2021)
In her native Norway, young law scholar Sofie Høgestøl is a media pundit on US politics. However, her interests go way further than that and she was delighted to be asked to moderate the fourth SDG Conference Bergen.
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Expanding understanding of the relationship between criminal insanity and psychosis (04.02.2021)
How and why does psychosis play a role when defining someone as criminally insane and lacking capacity for responsible action? Professor Linda Gröning at The Faculty of Law has been given 12 million NOK from The Research Council of Norway to learn more about the nuances of this question.
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PhD Candidate Noor Jdid to defend her Thesis on 5 February (02.02.2021)
PhD Candidate Noor Jdid, co-founder of IMER Junior Scholar Network, will be defending her thesis on Friday, 5 February.
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PhD Candidate Kari Anne Drangsland to defend her thesis on 21 January (19.01.2021)
PhD Candidate Kari Anne Drangsland, IMER's PhD representative on the board and IMER Junior Scholar Network member, will be defending her thesis on Thursday, 21 January.
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Record funding for partnerships in the South (22.12.2020)
Building on years of collaboration with institutions of research and higher education, the University of Bergen ends year with funding for a record number of new projects with partner institutions in the South.
Tore Sætersdal at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda in spring 2013, at a stand with books and pamphlets on the Nile and research on water.
UiB sweeps NORHED II funding (21.12.2020)
14 projects from the University of Bergen have received funding for a total value of 290 million Norwegian kroner from the NORHED II programme.
Photo of a mobile phone on a red background, indicating infection rates for the COVID-19 pandemic.
WUN funds global challenges research (16.12.2020)
The University of Bergen is involved in four new projects to receive funding from the Worldwide Universities Network’s Research Development Fund, which focusses on global challenges towards the 2030 Agenda.
Postdoctoral Fellow Joanna Siekiera from the University of Bergen at a science diplomacy workshop in Bergen in February 2020.
Taking water diplomacy to the ocean science decade (01.12.2020)
At the Diplomacy 2.0 event, Joanna Siekiera from the University of Bergen spoke on the subject of water diplomacy as a field of science diplomacy.
Vice-Rector for Global Relations Annelin Eriksen from the University of Bergen at the national SDG Conference Bergen in February 2019.
Norwegian universities demand SDG action (30.11.2020)
“It is vital for Norway to have a national action plan for the Sustainable Development Goals and only natural for academia to inhabit a key role by contributing with research-based knowledge and critical thinking on the goals,” says Vice-Rector Annelin Eriksen at the University of Bergen.
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The window for action on climate change is closing (18.11.2020)
A global alliance of leading climate research universities is urging the G20 countries to embrace a build back better strategy for the post-pandemic recovery. This includes prioritising net zero emissions and planning for a more circular economy.
The UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, Ambassador Peter Thomson, giving the annual Ocean Sustainability Bergen Lecture at the Ocean Sustainability Bergen Conference 2020.
Ocean literacy key to progress for a sustainable ocean (12.11.2020)
How can scientific knowledge on the treasures of the ocean contribute to informing policy? This was the key topic at the second Ocean Sustainability Bergen Conference.
Five recommendations to include science in 2030 Agenda (11.11.2020)
Every year, several countries present their Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) to show their progress in implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. But how can science play an integral part in these proceedings?
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Bergen School of Global Studies launched (04.11.2020)
The launch at the University Aula concluded with two large panels representing the diversity of scientific milieus tackling global challenges in Bergen. Together they will work to make Bergen the place of choice for students seeking knowledge and skills to help solve global challenges.
A student at the University of Bergen in the fish laboratory.
Celebrating 2 years as ocean science hub (23.10.2020)
On UN Day 2018 – 24 October, the University of Bergen was announced as the official UNAI Hub for SDG14 – Life below water. Two years on, we look at what has been achieved during this time.

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