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Global displacement has reached an all time high in 2021. The world has never needed the UN Refugee Convention more than in its 70th anniversary year.

We would like to congratulate everyone who has completed their master's degree at the Faculty of Social Sciences autumn 2020 and spring 2021.

How SAMPOL is on the frontier of polar political science

Stein Rokkan would have been 100 years old on 4 July 2021. He was one of the world’s leading political sociologists during the first decades after the Second World War and he played a core role in the development of the social sciences at the University of Bergen in the late 1960s. He established the subject ‘comparative politics’.

Housing has remained one of the fundamentals of every society. However, in Ghana, most of the population lacks decent and affordable housing; the current housing deficit in Ghana is over 2 million.

CET Affiliate Esmeralda Colombo received CET Accelerator funding to create a special three-part podcast series ClimatenergyTalk! Hear the first episode "The Role of Scientists for Deep Decarbonization" now!

It is now possible for CET Affiliates to apply for CET Accelerator seed funding. Do you have a project proposal you are developing? Apply for funding to accelerate your idea! Deadline June 11, 2021.

Per Lægreid and Tom Christensen with new chapter in Handbook of Public Administration