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Kangaroo Mother Care Reduces Infant Mortality (09.01.2020)
When newborn babies with low birth weight are held close to their mother´s bodies throughout the day, their chance of survival increases substantially.
Professor Hakan G. Sicakkan from the University of Bergen speaking at the launch of the UN Global Academic Network of migration experts in Geneva in December 2019.
Bringing science to Global Refugee Forum (09.01.2020)
The University of Bergen political scientist Hakan G. Sicakkan has been named as one of the members in the UN Global Academic Network of migration experts.
Heart failure
Half of women with heart failure get the wrong treatment (03.01.2020)
As many as 50 per cent of women suffering from cardiac arrest are given insufficient treatment, because the heart failure was not caused by a heart attack.
Utsiktsbilde Blombos Cave
Inside Henshilwood’s Cave (30.12.2019)
The archaeologists who found the World's oldest man-made drawing are back in Blombos Cave in search of new discoveries. Professor Henshilwood welcomes us to the cave to show us his team at work as they dig for clues that can tell us how early humans lived.
Merry Christmas from the University of Bergen (20.12.2019)
With this video consisting of students at the Grieg Academy, the rectorate at the University of Bergen wishes all students and staff a merry Christmas.
iEarth chosen as Centre of Excellence in Education (12.12.2019)
iEarth becomes one of the Norwegian Centres of Excellence in Education. The University of Bergen now hosts two of the prestigious centres that focus on innovative and forward-looking education.
Iain Johnston
A new tool uncovers how a disease develops in individual patients (05.12.2019)
UiB and Imperial College researchers have developed a tool which predicts how progressive diseases like cancer and malaria develop in individual patients. In addition, the tool uncovers how bacteria develop resistance to certain drugs.
Director Lise Øvreås from Ocean Sustainability Bergen flanked by her University of Bergen colleagues Karin Pittman (left) and Anders Goksøyr during the first meeting of the IAU SDG14 Team.
First meeting for ocean sustainability team (21.11.2019)
In November 2018 the University of Bergen was officially announced as the leader of the SDG14 Cluster for the International Association of Universities (IAU). In November 2019 the IAU SDG14 Team met for the first time – at least virtually.
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Universities can make a difference for 2030 Agenda (19.11.2019)
Proposal by UNESCO and Norway for universities to work together to establish a global working group of researchers and academics to provide knowledge on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Mother Afica welcome home Exhibition from Blombos
Recreating the lives of our ancestors (11.11.2019)
New digital technology makes it possible to recreate the lives led by our ancestors 100,000 years ago.
UiB og SMUG i Uganda
Shows support to sexual minorities in Uganda (06.11.2019)
Leaders from the University of Bergens shows its full support to sexual minorities in Uganda.
Portrettt Håvard Haarstad
Doing time for the climate (04.11.2019)
According to Håvard Haarstad, scientists have to commit to doing everything they can to get society moving in the right direction. His own commitment to saving the world earned him a night in prison in New York.
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The road to 2030: This is how UiB will become greener (31.10.2019)
"Climate accounting shows that cuts in CO2 will be necessary until the year 2030. The objective of climate neutrality must be reached, but we need help from students and staff, says Deputy University Director Tore Tungodden. 
A student from the University of Bergen holds a starfish found in the waters close to Bergen, Norway.
Research and activities at the UNAI SDG14 Hub (24.10.2019)
On UN Day 2018 – 24 October, the University of Bergen was announced as the official UNAI Hub for SDG14 – Life below water. One year on, we reflect upon our activities in the year gone and present some of our future plans.
Professor Edvard Hviding moderated panel of Ngedikes Olai Uludong from Palau at UN, CEO Yimnang Golbuu from Palau International Coral Reef Centre, former IOC chair Peter M. Haugan and Kjell Kristian Egge from Norway MFA at Our Ocean 23 October 2019
Reinventing the laws of the sea (24.10.2019)
In partnership with Palau's UN Mission and IOC-UNESCO, the University of Bergen arranged a side event at Our Ocean to discuss the science necessary to secure marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction as part of international law.
Media Futures christoff Trattner spaserer i gangen med robot
30 mill Euro plan to develop responsible media technology (23.10.2019)
Researchers at Media City Bergen and key media partners seek to establish a centre for developing responsible media technology. – As the robots enter the editorial rooms, the need to guard issues like ethics and data protection is urgent, says centre leader.
ESS tildeling
Digsscore granted national responsibility for European Social Survey ESS (22.10.2019)
– We are very happy to mark our position as a national competence centre on survey data and development of the survey method, says deputy dean Ragnhild Muriaas.
Norway's Special Representative for the Ocean, Mr. Vidar Helgesen, gave an impassioned speech for the ocean and the blue economy when he gave the first Annual Ocean Sustainability Bergen Lecture on 21 October 2019.
Ocean conference with a focus on science-policy nexus (21.10.2019)
More than 150 scientists, students and ocean enthusiasts gathered in the University Aula for the inaugural Ocean Sustainability Bergen Conference and speeches on current research and inspirational speeches on a sustainable ocean.

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