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Global Challenges

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Global challenges affect us all — they are complex and interdisciplinary by nature, and influence how we work and collaborate across disciplines at the University of Bergen.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
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Funding for collaborative projects within global challenges autumn 2026

Global Challenges has allocated funds to stimulate academic cross-faculty collaboration - application deadline 1 October 2026.

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Funding for events and visiting scholars within global challenges autumn 2026

Call for applications for funding to stimulate activities that strengthen UiB’s work on global challenges - application deadline: 1 October 2026.

BSRS 2026
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What should we ask of the ocean?

The annual Bergen Summer Research School brings together 65 young scholars from 29 countries around the world. What unites them is a shared focus on this year’s theme: Ocean Expectations.

International symposium
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How global shifts reshape migration and refugee regimes

How are geopolitical change, new technologies, and shifting norms transforming migration and asylum regimes? These questions will be at the centre of a symposium, co-organised by UiB, held in Tijuana, Mexico, on 22 April 2026.

New research from SapienCE
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Early human innovation: Was climate really the cause?

A new study challenges the idea that climate change drove early human innovation. Instead, researchers find that cultural developments arose under different environmental conditions, shaped by movement, interaction, and knowledge sharing.

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Every year, Bergen Summer Research School welcomes 100 PhD candidates from all over the world to take one of several parallel PhD-level courses, all based in some of Bergen’s best research groups, and each addressing important global challenges.