News archive for Global Challenges

Fighting child mortality in Uganda (23.02.2018)

Researcher Victoria Nankabirwa is leading two research projects that aim to reduce child mortality in Uganda.

Midwifery in Rural Afghanistan (15.02.2018)

Two researchers from Bergen were involved in a project evaluating women´s perception, utilization and experience of a professional midwifery service in rural Afghanistan in the time around childbirth.

The University of Bergen's Rector Dag Rune Olsen speaking at the opening of the SDG Bergen Conference 2018.

SDG Conference is to be annual event (10.02.2018)

At the SDG Conference Bergen, Rector Dag Rune Olsen promised to make the University of Bergen climate neutral by 2030. The university will also host an annual conference on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Belo Horizonte is the sixth largest city in Brazil and capital of the South-eastern state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Funds for cooperation projects in Global Challenges (06.02.2018)

Strategy area for Global Challenges has allocated funds to promote scientific interfaculty cooperation in 2018.

Mare Nullius: Professor Edvard Hviding awarded Toppforsk grant (05.02.2018)

Social anthropologist Edvard Hviding is one of three University of Bergen researchers to receive five years of major funding from the prestigious Toppforsk programme, awarded by the Research Council of Norway, for his project Mare Nullius.

Brochure: CIH’s Global Health Master Degree (01.02.2018)

The Centre for International Health at the University of Bergen offers a Master Degree in Global Health.