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Screenshot from one of the sessions at the virtual Warsaw Science Diplomacy School in June 2020.

Science diplomacy for global challenges (29.06.2020)

Postdoctoral Fellow Joanna Siekiera reports on a new summer school educating the science diplomats of the future, with participation from around the world.

International recognition for the University Gardens (26.06.2020)

The University Gardens have received official accreditation from Botanic Gardens Conservation International as conforming to the highest international standards.

New method developed to analyse social media (26.06.2020)

Do you know where the personal data you leave behind in apps and on social media is used? A new method for analyzing data developed by Professor Jill Walker Rettberg helps identify precisely that.

The complex system of facial expressions in sign language (26.06.2020)

In the near future deaf people and hearing people may be able to communicate in real time, using automatic translation systems based on computer vision technologies. Now researchers are carefully studying facial expressions used in sign language to express both grammatical information and emotions.

Professors and marine scientists Sigrid Eskeland Schütz and Edvard Hviding on stage at the inaugural Ocean Sustainability Bergen Conference in October 2019.

The law of the high seas (22.06.2020)

Biodiversity is one of the key issues in the debate for sustaining and developing our common ocean resources. Law researchers at the University of Bergen have long been engaged in judicial questions outside national marine territories.

Cognitive therapy has lasting effect on hypochondriacs (16.06.2020)

Even only few hours with cognitive behavioural therapy has very good effect on persons with hypochondria 10 years after treatment.

Professor Edvard Hviding from the University of Bergen at the High-level Political Forum at the United Nations in July 2018, as part of the official Norwegian delegation.

Science diplomacy for the ocean (15.06.2020)

Ocean science is at the core of the University of Bergen’s science diplomacy activities. By juxtaposing the 17 goals of the 2030 Agenda, the university and its partners are quietly providing policymakers with research-based knowledge for global sustainability.

Rector Dag Rune Olsen from the University of Bergen speaking at the official launch of the One Ocean Expedition in August 2020.

Ocean potential highlighted on World Ocean Day (09.06.2020)

“The ocean has enormous potential. It's not only that we can, but also because we have to produce more from the ocean if we are to avoid climate change,” said Vidar Helgesen aboard tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl on World Ocean Day.

Students from the University of Bergen during field work north of Bergen on the west coast of Norway.

The future of education in ocean science (08.06.2020)

The University of Bergen’s interdisciplinary SDG14 course educates the future ocean science leaders to engage critically with the 2030 Agenda.

Portrait of Benjamin Pfeil, leader of the Bjerknes Climate Data Centre at the University of Bergen

Providing data to save our ocean (08.06.2020)

Reporting on ocean acidification data directly targeting the Sustainable Development Goals is all in a day’s work for Benjamin Pfeil and his data group at the University of Bergen.