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Norwegian Centres of Excellence (CoE)

UiB is currently home to six National Centres of Excellence. The CoE status is a seal of quality in academic research.

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SAPIENCE
SapienCE - Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour - aims to find out how we evolved into who we are today.
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Center for Digital Narrative
CDN - Center for Digital Narrative will investigate new forms of digital narrative in electronic literature, digital games, social media and AI-driven storytelling.
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Bergen Center for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health
BCEPS - Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting will develop new methods and a new ethical framework for fair and efficient priority setting in health.
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Birkeland
The Birkeland Centre for Space Science (BCSS ) tries to understand the Earth’s relationship to space.
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CISMAC
CISMAC - Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health - aims to improve the health and survival of mothers and children in low- and middle income countries (LMICs).
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CCBIO
CCBIO - Centre for Cancer Biomarkers - works towards new cancer biomarkers and targeted therapy.
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  • Center for Digital Narrative CDN (2023-2033)
    • The power center for research on digital culture will work to promote the understanding of how digital narratives shape the understanding of ourselves and the society in which we live.
  •  Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting BCEPS (2023-2033)
    • BCEPS will become a world-leading research center that will develop new methods and a new ethical framework that help decision-makers to distribute health services in a fairer and more efficient way. 
  • Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour SAPIENCE (2017-2027)
    • SapienCE aims to increase our understanding of how and when Homo sapiens evolved into who we are today. South Africa is one of the locations for this centre.
  • Birkeland Center for Space Science BCSS (2013-2023)
    • BCSS tries to understand the Earth’s relationship to space. They are looking to answer the  three questions: When and why are the auroras in the two hemispheres asymmetric? What are the effects of particle precipitation on the atmospheric system? What is the role of energetic particles from thunderstorms on geospace?
  • Center for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health CISMAC (2013-2023)
    • CISMAC aims to improve the health and survival of mothers and children as well as child development through intervention studies among low-income populations in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Center for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO (2013-2023)
    • CCBIO identifies new cancer biomarkers and targeted therapy, and has particular focus on mechanisms that show how cancer cells are affected by the microenvironment in the tumors, and what significance this has for cancer proliferation and poor prognosis.

UiB is also partner in a CoE coordinated by UiO: The Norwegian Centre for research on mental illnesses -NORMENT, which has the aim to find answers to why some people develop serious mental illness.