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Masterstudenter på medie- og interaksjonsdesign blir presentert for ideer til masteroppgaver av bedrifter
Media and media tech companies pitch ideas for master's projects (15.02.2019)
Would you like to do your master´s project with companies such as the streaming service TV 2 Sumo or the media tech company Mediability? This is possible in the media cluster Media City Bergen.
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An exploration of the uncertain (08.02.2019)
Professor Lars Nyre and his students will apply the newest within HTC Vive technology. Together with the students, he will ask the fundamental questions: What is this? How can it be used?
Students in auditorium with presenter in background
CET at Day Zero 2019 (07.02.2019)
Day Zero is a new initiative held the day before the SDG Bergen conference and is a packed day of workshops relating to the Sustainable Development Goals. CET was well represented with three workshops on topics of accountability, student involvement & perception.
Students gathered around table
Students ready to tackle the sustainability tangle! (04.02.2019)
The new interdisciplinary undergraduate course CET201 Sustainable innovation had its inaugural course day last week. Around 25 students found their way to BTO’s innovation hub: Nyskapningsparken for an introduction to the eight-week course.
Frode Guribye forteller om informasjonsvitenskap
Do you want to study IT or media? (30.01.2019)
What can you do and where can you work after completing a bachelor's degree in IT or Media? Seinor year pupils from Upper Secondary schools received answers to these questions during the “Open Day” at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies.
Picture of researcher Jenny Krutzinna
The Ethics of Medical Data Donation (22.01.2019)
Postdoc Jenny Krutzinna addresses the state's obligation to facilitate ethical medical data donation.
Studentrekruttering Åpen dag
Branding higher education (21.01.2019)
Norwegian universities spend a lot of resources trying to gain the attention of prospective students.
Field work in Maputo at the opening of Urban Enclaving Futures Project, lead by Professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen from University of Bergen (left in photo).
New perspectives on change in urban Africa (17.01.2019)
The cutting-edge Urban Enclaving Futures project used its first workshop to define how research can bring in social, cultural, spatial and further dimensions moving beyond classic economic understandings of urban development.
New article by Per Lægreid and Tom Christensen in Public Organization Review (14.01.2019)
Bildet viser en tom huske med skygge av et barn
Are children in Norway sufficiently protected? (14.01.2019)
Skivenes and Falch-Eriksen identify possible blind spots in the Norwegian child protection system.
Part of book cover of Children's rights in Norway
Children’s rights in Norway (14.01.2019)
Professor Marit Skivenes is co-editor on a book analyzing the status of children’s rights in Norway.
Instituttet i vinter
New article by Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid and Lise H. Rykkja in Studies in Conflicts and Terrorism (09.01.2019)
Frontcover Mozambique on the move
New book: Mozambique on the Move (08.01.2019)
Professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen at the Department of Social Anthropology is co-editor on a newly published book. "Mozambique on the move" is a multi-disciplinary exploration of Mozambique’s contemporary and historical dynamics, bringing together scholars from across the globe.
illustration with ships and cranes and trucks
CET has applied for status as a Centre for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME) (08.01.2019)
Together with 26 key partners, CET has applied for 100 million kroners from the Norwegian Research council to establish a centre for sustainable transport in coastal cities - Centre for Coastal Area Sustainable Transport (COAST).
bilde av fire personer bak høye bord.
Air travel quotas - are they realistic? (20.12.2018)
CET has started a podcast - CET Klimasnakk (english: Climate talks). The first episode is a recording of a public conversation we had at Literaturhuset i Bergen the 13th of November.
Demo for studentene på MIX301
Master students make artificial speech robots (19.12.2018)
Students in the Master in Media and Interaction Design programme at UiB in Media City Bergen presented their artificial speech prototypes. The result is: Robot Buddy, Easysleep, Masebotten and Albert the kitchen assistant.
Public Administration in Europe, The Contribution of the EGPA
Lægreid and Verhoest with chapter in Public Administration in Europe (13.12.2018)
Professor Per Lægreid and researcher Koen Verhoest have contributed a chapter to the book «Public Administration in Europe».
bilde av marija slavkovik
Can our digital performance be understood by a theoretical formula? Marija Slavkovik hopes to find the answer. (11.12.2018)
The rule of building a perfect algorithm translates to a common experience of the real world: If you want something to be beautiful, it must handle complexity.

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