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OD-dagen 2025
OD Day (Operation Day’s Work) at Norskkursa (06.11.2025)
It’s Thursday, October 30th. The time is 8:00 AM, and outside the HF building, a lively group of 28 students from Langhaugen Upper Secondary School is gathered. The students are ready for action. They’ve been hired as language assistants to give international students in the NOR-INTRO program the opportunity to speak Norwegian with native speakers before their exam. The payment for today’s work... Read more
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Exemplary application of CNA in democracy research (03.11.2025)
Jesse Rhodes delivers an exemplary study applying Coincidence Analysis (CNA) to discover causal paths leading to substantial improvement in subnational democracy in the U.S. states.
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CNA introduced for causal learning in vaccination settings (03.11.2025)
Abdu A. Adamu and colleagues introduced CNA as a tool to improve immunization decision-making and address disparities in vaccination coverage, arguing that CNA can help immunization stakeholders better understand implementation conditions across districts and develop tailored strategies for optimizing service delivery in underserved areas such as conflict zones, informal urban settlements, and... Read more
Nordic Library 30 Years Celebration
Celebrating 30 Years of the Nordic Library at Athens (20.10.2025)
A Landmark Anniversary for a Hub of Research and Collaboration for Nordic Institutes and Beyond
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Wits/SapienCE wins top cultural award (15.10.2025)
The Wits/SapienCE Blombos Museum of Archaeology in Still Bay, Southern Cape, has received the award for Best Innovative Project in the Field of Museums, Heritage, and Geographical Names from the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport.
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What's care got to do with it? (20.08.2025)
SKOK’s new postdoctoral fellow, Riikka Prattes, will investigate caring masculinities in the context of youth climate activism.
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CNA taught at two training workshops in Asia (07.08.2025)
In July 2025, the PATANG team at The George Institute for Global Health (TGI) organized two CNA training workshops in Asia: one in Bali, Indonesia, in collaboration with the International Health Economics Association (IHEA), and one at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, co-hosted by the Centre for Technology and Policy.
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Rare discovery at a high school in Bergen caught the attention of UIB researchers (10.07.2025)
Remnants of medieval books were coincidentally discovered at Bergen Cathedral School - a high school located in the city center of Bergen. The findings will now be documented and analyzed by the international research project CODICUM.
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Uncovering the hidden female influence in medieval literature (04.07.2025)
Did nuns play a more active and influential role in shaping our literary canon? Professor Laura Saetveit Miles, a specialist in British literature, sets high ambitions for her next research project: she aims to demonstrate how women shaped Medieval literature through both reading and writing.
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Norwegian gardens have become sterile lawnscapes (03.07.2025)
Norwegian gardens have gone from being full of fruits and berries to becoming flat lawns with trampolines and gas grills. “We have gardens that demand more, but give less back to nature,” says Professor Kyrre Kverndokk.
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Students from UiB win Sustainability Education Game 2025 (03.07.2025)
Team 'Wet Zero' from the University of Bergen, impressed with their creative ideas in The Sustainability Education Game 'Eyes of the future', by envisioning a sustainable Bergen in 2040.
Sustainable calls for action
A train letter from master's students in Sustainability (30.06.2025)
Team 'Wet Zero', consisting of four students in Sustainability at UiB, won the Sustainability Game 2025, earning an all-expenses-paid train journey to the Climate Conference in Durham. Below is their travel letter.
Kjersti Fløttum at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.
Professor emerita Kjersti Fløttum with a keynote address at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin (27.06.2025)
What can the humanities contribute with in our understanding ofthe climate crisis?
Group photo of the participants to the 18th ICPP 2025.
Emil Perron with a presentation at the International Conference on Philosophical Practice 2025 (27.06.2025)
In mid-June, PhD candidate Emil Perron participated with a presentation at the 18th International Conference on Philosophical Practice, this time in Zagreb, Croatia.
Elizabeth Velliky post doc at SapienCE excavating in Blombos Cave
Shaping the Past: Ochre as a Tool in Early Human Innovation (26.06.2025)
A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool for stone toolmaking during the Middle Stone Age, demonstrating advanced technical skills far earlier than previously believed.
Professor Francesco d’Errico sapience researcher in the filed smiling to camera with rock mountain in the back.
Learning to Learn: How cultural transmission shaped the human mind (18.06.2025)
How did our ancestors learn to craft tools, control fire, paint on cave walls, and sail across vast oceans — and how were these skills passed down through generations?
Off Center – Season 4
Listen to Off Center season 4 (11.06.2025)
Introducing ALGOPOD.
Image of Asia Alsgaard holds a Ph.D. in anthropology, specializing in identifying animal skeletal remains, or zooarchaeology sat in Blombos Cave South Africa, doing fieldwork looking at the photographer.
Sparking a Passion: Asia Alsgaard's Archaeological Journey (23.05.2025)
Her passion for archaeology was sparked the first time she witnessed an active archaeological dig. This spring, Asia Alsgaard supervised the SapienCE excavations at Klipdrift Cave during fieldwork in South Africa.

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