Norwegian Centres of Excellence (CoE)
National Centres of Excellence are a stamp of quality in academic research.
UiB currently hosts four CoEs:
- Birkeland Center for Space Science (2013-2022)
- Center for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (2013-2022)
- Center for Cancer markers (2013-2022)
- Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (2017-2026)
Below you will find links to the centres homepages
UiB is also partner in a CoE coordinated by UiO: The Norwegian Centre for research on mental illnesses -NORMENT.
UiB hosted the Center for Geobiology from 2008-2017.
In the period 2003-2013 UiB coordinated the following centres: Bjerknes centre for climate research, Center for integrated petroleum research and the Centre for Medieval Studies.
This site is updated by Anja Hegen
About Centres of Excellence scheme
The Research Council of Norway initiated i 2002 a scheme entitled "Centres of Excellence (CoE)" to give Norway’s foremost scientific circles the opportunity to organise their activities in centres that seek to achieve ambitious scientific objectives through collaboration and long-term basic funding.
The research conducted at a CoE must be innovative and have major potential to generate ground-breaking results that advance the international research frontier.
The CoEs must work with ambitious ideas and complex problems that require coordinated, long-term research activities within or across disciplines to achieve its objectives.
More information about the scheme can be found here
