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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?
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ERC Advanced Grants to Marisaldi and Fomin (17.06.2025)
Professors Martino Marisaldi and Fedor Fomin receive EU support for groundbreaking projects in algorithm theory and space physics. The grants will allow them to explore fundamental questions in their fields of research.
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UiB receives 200 million NOK for research on hybrid intelligence and learning (11.06.2025)
Hybrid intelligence is the future, according to Professor Barbara Wasson. She will head the new research centre AI LEARN, which will conduct research on the interaction between human and artificial intelligence (AI) over the next five years.
BSRS group walking
Research school with systems perspectives on sustainability and justice (10.06.2025)
The buzz of young researchers making new friends promises great things for the two weeks to come. The interdisciplinary focus this year's summer school is systems perspectives on sustainability and justice,
Illustrasjonsfoto med Bergen i bakgrunnen.
Establishing a center for legal research on the ocean and the green transition (03.06.2025)
The Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen has established the COAST Law Center—a research center for climate, energy, and sustainability law, thematically focused on climate, the ocean, the marine environment, and maritime activities.
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Kick-off for TargetRNA (02.06.2025)
May 26th marked the kick-off for the doctoral network, gathering Ph.D. candidates from all over the world.
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.
CODICUM kick-off
CODICUM Project kicks off in Bergen: “Now the fun can begin” (13.05.2025)
The historic Håkonshallen in Bergen provided a fitting backdrop for the official launch of CODICUM, a six-year interdisciplinary research project funded by the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant. See the visual recap of the event at the top of the article.
Hana Lukesova
Bridging the past and present: textile conservation and heritage science (23.04.2025)
"As a conservator and heritage scientist, I am thrilled by touching the past and literally transferring the experience to the present", says Hana Lukesova at the University Museum of Bergen.
PhD Candidate Sejal Pramlall from the University of Bergen, Norway
French award for young UiB ocean researcher (16.04.2025)
PhD candidate Sejal Pramlall is one of five young ocean researchers to be given the French Institute Nordic Award (FINA). The award will fund her participation at the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice in France in June.
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Wasson and Færstad join the government's AI committee for higher education (09.04.2025)
University of Bergen professors Barbara Wasson and Jan-Ove Færstad are among the experts in the new committee that will provide advice on how artificial intelligence (AI) can benefit students, universities, colleges, and society.
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Four UiB candidates shortlisted in the AI centre competition (09.04.2025)
The University of Bergen is represented by four of the 19 finalists in the national competition to establish new AI centres. Discover the candidates here.
Alberto Ascherio
UiB Honorary Doctor receives the annual "Breakthrough Prize" (08.04.2025)
Honorary Doctor at UiB, Alberto Ascherio, receives the prize for his groundbreaking research on MS.
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Oral health in focus at festival in Belgium (08.04.2025)
Did you know that poor oral health can be linked to diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and lung diseases? Professor Randi Bertelsen and PhD students Tuva Norderud Jensen and Anders Røsland recently participated in the Science Is Wonderful! festival in Belgium – an annual celebration of EU-funded research organized by the European Commission.
Ingrid Cardoso
Ingrid Cardoso is the new climate-health PhD at the Pandemic Centre (08.04.2025)
The medical doctor will explore how climate considerations can be integrated into healthcare governance.
Podcaststudio med Kristopher Schau, Scott Rettberg og Jill Walker Rettberg
Center for Digital Narrative stars in Research Council podcast (07.04.2025)
"Curious Norway" visited the center to ask about us, our research and what digital narratives actually are.
Team Hagen
Four More Years for Margareth Hagen (27.03.2025)
Team Hagen is the winner of the rector election at UiB. Margareth Hagen has been elected rector for another four years, along with Pro-Rector Sigrun Eliassen.
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Human Diabetes Gene Protects Against the Disease in Mice (19.03.2025)
When researchers at the University of Bergen inserted a diabetes gene into mice, they were surprised by the result. The mouse pancreas was severely injured, but the animals were still protected against diabetes.

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