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Study Highlights Social Media Differences Between Minority Boys and White, Straight Boys (02.12.2024)
«I was interested in finding out if queer boys and boys with a minority background used social media differently than the majority, and found that they stand out a bit,» UiB researcher John Magnus Dahl says.
ERC-tildeling
Top European grants to the University of Bergen (02.12.2024)
Associate Professor Marc Vaudel and Professor Linda Gröning at the University of Bergen have each been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant.
Students in a learning situation
UiB Master’s Programme Secures NOK 3 Million Grant for Global Classroom Initiative (29.11.2024)
«We will teach the courses at five universities in different ways. We will create shared teaching materials, and students at all five institutions will participate through teacher and student mobility», professor Lise Rakner says.
Painted lady butterfly larvae hatching.
Pollinators: The little creatures that run the world (07.11.2024)
With funding from the EU, University of Bergen researchers and their large transdisciplinary team set out to help society deal with threats related to pollinator decline.
Plastrydding på Lisle Lyngøy
Cleaning the Plastic Island (01.11.2024)
Students and staff from the University of Bergen, together with long-standing partners, cleaned “Plastic Island” Lisle Lyngøy during this year’s plastic cleanup campaign.
Gruppebilde med de fire forskerne
Nordic research team receives €13 million to explore medieval book culture  (01.11.2024)
Åslaug Ommundsen from the University of Bergen, along with three Nordic research partners, has been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant to investigate how books and literary networks shaped Northern Europe between 1000 and 1500 CE.   
Anu Bradford.
Anu Bradford wins the 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize (25.10.2024)
Professor Anu Bradford, at Columbia Law School wins he prestigious 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize for the book Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology.
Ungdom rydder strand for plast
New Method Maps Youth Engagement (16.10.2024)
A large international project on young people's political and civic engagement is examining their relationship with local politics and participation.
Ungdom rydder strand for plast
New Method Maps Youth Engagement (16.10.2024)
A large international project on young people's political and civic engagement is examining their relationship with local politics and participation.
Jellyfish unveiled exhibit
Photography exhibition ‘Jellyfish unveiled’ opens at the University Museum of Bergen (09.10.2024)
The new exhibit aims to challenge the public’s perspective on the often-misunderstood animals by highlighting their beauty and ecological relevance. It will run until January 26, 2025.
Puig standing infront of tree
When climate change affects intangible cultural heritage (08.10.2024)
What can society do when climate change affects crafts, traditions, knowledge about nature, and other expressions of intangible cultural heritage? Daniel Puig, a researcher at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, is exploring this question.
SDG cubes
Organize an event at Day Zero 2025! (25.09.2024)
We now welcome applications to host an event as part of Day Zero at the SDG Conference Bergen, 5 February 2025. This is the free, all-digital day of events on the day before the SDG Conference plenary programme starts.
UiB Innovasjonsfestival 2024
Success for the first innovation festival at UiB (24.09.2024)
There was great interest in the first UiB Innovation Festival on September 20th. Vice-Rector Gottfried Greve hopes the event will create a new momentum for the innovation culture at The University of Bergen (UiB).
Peter Haugan, Francoise Gaill and Lise Øvreås in conversation at the Ocean Futures 2030 event at the House of Literature in Bergen on 17 September with audience member shooting photo on mobile.
Raising public ocean literacy awareness (21.09.2024)
The fifth event in the Ocean Futures 2030 series was co-organised by UiB and France’s embassy in Norway to discuss global ocean awareness across sectors. Watch the recording.
Illustrasjonsbilde
Universities Launch Global Coalition to Support Refugee Education at Scale (17.09.2024)
16 universities from across the globe come together to improve and increase access to higher education for refugees and their communities.
bilde av luftforurensing fra fabrikkpoper
Long-term exposure to air pollution increases the risk of hospitalisation (09.09.2024)
Long-term exposure to air pollution and a lack of access to green spaces increases the risk of hospitalisation for respiratory conditions, according to a study conducted by UiB-researchers.
Woman with brown hair and a leather jacket
Professor Slavkovik: AI is Key to a Better Future (06.09.2024)
One of UiB's leading AI researchers, Marija Slavkovik, thinks there is a cost to not leaning into artificial intelligence.
en mørkhudet mann titter inn i et mikroskop
EU backs life-saving research: Tackling child diarrhea in low-income countries (05.09.2024)
Diarrhea is the second leading cause of child mortality in low-income countries, following pneumonia. To tackle this issue, a consortium coordinated by UiB-professor Kurt Hanevik has secured EU funding to improve diagnosis and treatment of diarrheal diseases.

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