News archive for Global Challenges

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.

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.

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.

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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.