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Ten new honorary doctorates (25.09.2019)

Peter Gluckman, Peter Thomson, Toril Moi, Jo-Anne Baird, Bruce R. Zetter, Pippa Norris, Ragnhildur Helgadóttir, Anne Canteaut, Eamon Duffy and Lise Davidsen have been made honorary doctors of the University of Bergen.

UiB awarded large EU project on migration (19.09.2019)

UiB researcher Hakan G. Sicakkan will lead the EU-funded PROTECT project, which will closely follow the United Nations’ two new global compacts on migration and refugees.

Marine scientist Elisabeth Holland visiting the University of Bergen in September 2019. Holland was recently appointed joint marine chair in a voluntary commitment between the University of the South Pacific and the University of Bergen.

A commitment to save our ocean (17.09.2019)

Climate scientist Elisabeth Holland has become the Norway-Pacific Joint Chair of Oceans and Climate Change. The position builds on a voluntary commitment at the 2017 UN Ocean Conference. #OceanAction18613

Peter Thomson announced as honorary PhD

Peter Thomson to be honorary doctor (09.09.2019)

The diplomat and ocean activist Peter Thomson from Fiji is one of nine new honorary doctors at the University of Bergen in Norway.