News archive for Global Challenges

Record funding for partnerships in the South (22.12.2020)

Building on years of collaboration with institutions of research and higher education, the University of Bergen ends year with funding for a record number of new projects with partner institutions in the South.

Tore Sætersdal at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda in spring 2013, at a stand with books and pamphlets on the Nile and research on water.

UiB sweeps NORHED II funding (21.12.2020)

14 projects from the University of Bergen have received funding for a total value of 290 million Norwegian kroner from the NORHED II programme.

Photo of a mobile phone on a red background, indicating infection rates for the COVID-19 pandemic.

WUN funds global challenges research (16.12.2020)

The University of Bergen is involved in four new projects to receive funding from the Worldwide Universities Network’s Research Development Fund, which focusses on global challenges towards the 2030 Agenda.

Postdoctoral Fellow Joanna Siekiera from the University of Bergen at a science diplomacy workshop in Bergen in February 2020.

Taking water diplomacy to the ocean science decade (01.12.2020)

At the Diplomacy 2.0 event, Joanna Siekiera from the University of Bergen spoke on the subject of water diplomacy as a field of science diplomacy.