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Tackling the obesity crisis in Europe – findings from the CO-CREATE project. (27.09.2023)
This week, a series of scientific papers from CO-CREATE (EU-funded project), focusing on combatting obesity among adolescents, have been featured in special issue published by Obesity Reviews.
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Cryospheric Monitoring in the Lyngen Alps (25.09.2023)
University of Bergen Professors, international Ph.D. students, and UiB’s Master students Dive into Cryospheric Monitoring at an Elite Summer School in the Lyngen Alps.
WATCH: "Mer av alt – raskere". The Energy Commission's report (12.09.2023)
Did you miss this seminar, where member of the Energy Commission, Liv Monica Stubholt, presented some of the central element in the commission's report? Watch it here!
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PhD project on the elderly's public connection (07.09.2023)
Solveig Kristine Bortne Høegh-Krohn joins the PREPARE research team to study the elderly and the public sphere.
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New postdoctoral fellow (06.09.2023)
Ruben Berge Mathisen is the Department’s newest postdoc
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Spitzer has been awarded the prestigeous ERC Starting Grant (01.09.2023)
«This is an opportunity to tackle prominent but largely-overlooked challenges plaguing the frontiers of developed liberal democracies» Aaron Spitzer says.
WATCH: Optimized renewable energy supply for a sustainable Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) (01.09.2023)
Did you miss Gerard A Virgili's presentation on optimizing energy supply of a Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) to reduce the carbon footprint? Watch the presentation here!
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- Norwegian readers don't avoid political news (31.08.2023)
Compared to many other countries, Norwegian readers do not shy away from news about politics. This and other insights from the Reuters Digital News Report and its Norwegian sub-report were presented by Janne Bjørgan at Fritt Ord.
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Battling deepening inequality: GRIP’s Annual Report 2022 embraces collaborative and multidimensional research (28.08.2023)
The March / Olsen Honorary Lecture
March/Olsen Honorary Lecture (H23): Professor Walter W. Powell (25.08.2023)
On Friday, August 25th 2023, the Department of Government was pleased to host this year's March / Olsen Honorary Lecture with Professor Walter W. (Woody) Powell as the distinguished speaker. The title of the lecture by Professor Powell was called "The Iron Cage Redux - Looking Back and Forward".
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New PhD course in Causal Inference with Observational Data (22.08.2023)
On 26-27 September Dr. Thomas Däubler will hold a two-day workshop that provides an introduction to statistical methods for causal inference with observational data
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Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability (17.08.2023)
New paper by Hallvard Moe, Torgeir Uberg Nærland and Brita Ytre-Arne discusses people’s news experiences before, during and after societal crisis situations.
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NordMedia23 Panel on democratic theory (10.08.2023)
As part of the NordMedia conference 2023 in Bergen, PREPARE organized a panel on the project's theoretical ambitions.
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Lobbying on higher education issues in Western Europe - mapping of interest groups and intermediary structures (10.08.2023)
Who are the key actors in interest intermediation in higher education in Western Europe?
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Monitoring and Measuring Emissions: The Habitable Air Project (02.08.2023)
The Habitable Air project introduces a new pilot study to identify, monitor, and measure community-level emissions. The pilot study, led by Dr. Kerry Chance, will employ air quality sensors placed in key household and institutional sites.
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Seminar on microcelebrities' online political engagement (30.06.2023)
New PREPARE postdoctoral researcher Özlem Demirkol Tønnesen explains turkish political twitter.
Are you a PhD-candidate at the UiB and want to spend two months in Brazil? (30.06.2023)
Are you working on a PhD thematically oriented towards environmental sustainability, environmental justice, ocean studies or marine economies?
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Training future leaders in artificial intelligence (27.06.2023)
Over the next 5 years, a large interdisciplinary project at UiB will advance the frontier of knowledge in artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on reliable and ethical development in the field. The program is supported by the EU and aims to train 19 researchers from various disciplines to become the future leaders in AI research and technology.

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