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The road to 2030: This is how UiB will become greener (31.10.2019)

"Climate accounting shows that cuts in CO2 will be necessary until the year 2030. The objective of climate neutrality must be reached, but we need help from students and staff, says Deputy University Director Tore Tungodden.

A student from the University of Bergen holds a starfish found in the waters close to Bergen, Norway.

Research and activities at the UNAI SDG14 Hub (24.10.2019)

On UN Day 2018 – 24 October, the University of Bergen was announced as the official UNAI Hub for SDG14 – Life below water. One year on, we reflect upon our activities in the year gone and present some of our future plans.

Professor Edvard Hviding moderated panel of Ngedikes Olai Uludong from Palau at UN, CEO Yimnang Golbuu from Palau International Coral Reef Centre, former IOC chair Peter M. Haugan and Kjell Kristian Egge from Norway MFA at Our Ocean 23 October 2019

Reinventing the laws of the sea (24.10.2019)

In partnership with Palau's UN Mission and IOC-UNESCO, the University of Bergen arranged a side event at Our Ocean to discuss the science necessary to secure marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction as part of international law.

Media Futures christoff Trattner spaserer i gangen med robot

30 mill Euro plan to develop responsible media technology (23.10.2019)

Researchers at Media City Bergen and key media partners seek to establish a centre for developing responsible media technology. – As the robots enter the editorial rooms, the need to guard issues like ethics and data protection is urgent, says centre leader.

Digsscore granted national responsibility for European Social Survey ESS (22.10.2019)

– We are very happy to mark our position as a national competence centre on survey data and development of the survey method, says deputy dean Ragnhild Muriaas.

Norway's Special Representative for the Ocean, Mr. Vidar Helgesen, gave an impassioned speech for the ocean and the blue economy when he gave the first Annual Ocean Sustainability Bergen Lecture on 21 October 2019.

Ocean conference with a focus on science-policy nexus (21.10.2019)

190 scientists, students and ocean enthusiasts gathered in the University Aula for the inaugural Ocean Sustainability Bergen Conference and speeches on current research and inspirational speeches on a sustainable ocean.

Åslaug Ommundsen has researched Medieval manuscript culture in Norway.

Manuscripts that link Europe together (21.10.2019)

“I never tire of studying medieval manuscripts. Even though my source material is Norwegian, it is also fundamentally international. This gives the research a broader perspective and forces international cooperation”, Professor Åslaug Ommundsen says.

"Funded at just the right time" (21.10.2019)

Had it not been for the Trond Mohn Foundation, Bodil Holst would have worked as a patent consultant in Munich. Thanks to a recruitment grant in 2007, however, she is now one of the most innovative researchers at the University of Bergen.

Ambassador Peter Thomson speaks at his public lecture on 15 October 2019 after being awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Bergen. He focussed on the urgent need for ocean action to rescue the planet.

Making tough decisions for the ocean (16.10.2019)

“A new deal for nature is on everyone's lips,” said Ambassador Peter Thomson in his public lecture after becoming an honorary doctor at the University of Bergen.

Christoph Heinze (UiB og Bjerknessenteret) og Thorsten Blenckner (Stockholm Resilience Centre) ønsket over 80 forskere velkommen til Bergen i dag, når COMFORT prosjektet setter I gang. Heinze (til venstre) og Blenckner leder et forskerteam som skal under

Our safe operating spaces for our common future ocean in the Earth system (09.10.2019)

What are our safe operating spaces for the ocean? This is the starting question for the new EU Horizon 2020 project COMFORT.

A technological revolution at atomic size (08.10.2019)

More effective as well as cheaper technology will be the outcome of a new innovation project, led by the University of Bergen.

- Educational assessment has a powerful effect upon people’s lives (02.10.2019)

With it comes a great deal of responsibility. The effects of educational assessments upon learning, and what we can find out about learning from these assessments, are both important facets of this responsibility that have not received enough attention.

Karsten Specht, IBMP, Det psykologiske fakultet

Fascinated by the brain (02.10.2019)

When Karsten Specht came into contact with brain researchers and language therapists working with aphasia patients, things began to happen.

Criminal Law: Work that never ends (01.10.2019)

As a student, Jørn Jacobsen encountered Norwegian criminal law – and he never got over it, or past it. The recruitment scholarship from the Trond Mohn Foundation gave him the opportunity to delve more deeply into issues involving power, criminal offences, freedom and penology.