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Innovative PhD programme becomes official UN Ocean Decade Action (30.12.2021)
On World Ocean Day in June 2021, a unique Norwegian-Pacific PhD Scholarship Programme was picked as one of the first 60 UN Ocean Decade Actions worldwide and one of three Norwegian actions.
Afternoon rush-hour on Accra´s Circle Road
Finding ways to move through Accra´s traffic (17.12.2021)
For decades Accra´s traffic has been a huge problem for the city´s development. Long traffic jams in rush hours, road accidents and poor travel conditions for everyone that moves within Accra is a well-known issue in Ghana and a conversation topic for Accra´s inhabitants - like rain and the weather are a common conversation topic in Bergen, Norway.
Coastline of Cicia Island in Fiji
New OceanStates blogpost! (16.12.2021)
Read the latest updates on the OceanStates front in our research blog.
åpning av NAF
Successful NAF Conference 2021! (03.12.2021)
On 25-26 November, the annual conference of the Norwegian Anthropological Society was held in Bergen. See pictures from the conference here!
Tecnhoscience ill.
New technologies and the future of the human (03.12.2021)
New PhD course dedicated to an investigation of the imaginary projects of technoscience. Candidates of social anthropology and related disciplines are welcome to apply!