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Join our Sustainable Innovation course (13.12.2019)
Sustainable development, climate change and energy transformation call for innovation in all sectors of society. In University of Bergen's course in Sustainable Innovation, you will create innovative solutions to real sustainability challenges.
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New ways of exploring urban development (10.12.2019)
With prospects of an extensive transformation of the biggest cargo-port on the Norwegian west coast into a sustainable urban mixed business and residential area, researchers and students from CET were invited to give their perspectives on sustainable urbanism at BYLAB.
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Egalitarian ideologies on the move: Changing care practices and gender norms in Norway (10.12.2019)
This article explores the complexities and ambiguities in Norwegian families’ interaction with the public childcare system.
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Not All Syrian Doctors Become Taxi Drivers (03.12.2019)
Bygnes with a new open access publication in Journal of International Migration and Integration: Not All Syrian Doctors Become Taxi Drivers: Stagnation and Continuity Among Highly Educated Syrians in Norway
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Call for abstracts BISC2020: Beyond sustainable development (03.12.2019)
Call for abstracts is now open for Bergen International Student Conference 2020: Beyond Sustainable Development. Join us in Bergen on March 23–24th 2020 to discuss the pressing issues of our times.
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Urban Enclaving: Grant enables comparative research project in China (29.11.2019)
The research project “Urban Enclaving Futures” has received a new grant to establish a comparative research component in China.
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Norwegian Women’s Experiences of 20th-Century Migration to England (27.11.2019)
The article is based on the migration narratives of Norwegian women who emigrated from Norway to England in the 20th century.
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– You look happy, that makes me happy! (21.11.2019)
Students at the Master in Media and Interaction Design, UiB, presented seven prototypes for human-robot interaction in health, teaching, navigation and recycling.
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Social Research Methods: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Research. (13.11.2019)
Perfect for undergraduate students new to methods, it teaches students how qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research can be used to answer research questions.
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New publications from the MeCIn-project (12.11.2019)
Ytre-Arne, Moe and Nærland with new articles in European Journal of Communication and Journalism.
Machine Learning Attacker
Adversarial Machine Learning (06.11.2019)
In this I2S seminar series lecture, Ambra Demontis will talk about how to attack machine learning systems as well as how to defense against those attacks.
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Doing time for the climate (04.11.2019)
According to Håvard Haarstad, scientists have to commit to doing everything they can to get society moving in the right direction. His own commitment to saving the world earned him a night in prison in New York.
Intense conversations at the BISC conference
Stillinger som koordinatorer for studentdrevet emne og konferanse (10.11.2019) (01.11.2019)
Er du student og vil arbeide med en konferanse eller studentdrevet emne i Bærekraftig innovasjon ved UiB?
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Low-carbon conferencing: CO2e, experiments and lessons learned. (31.10.2019)
How can we organize an international conference and at the same time, reduce our climate impact? This became the central question while organising our third edition of the Beyond Oil conference. We are happy to reveal that our 2019 conference halved the emissions of the previous conference in 2017.
Book cover, Smart Hybridity
Smart hybridity (31.10.2019)
Per Lægreid with book chapter in new book about smart hybrid arrangements.
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CET Accelerator funding (29.10.2019)
Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation ready for a new round of CET Accelerator seed funding. Send in applications before November 29.
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30 mill Euro plan to develop responsible media technology (23.10.2019)
Researchers at Media City Bergen and key media partners seek to establish a centre for developing responsible media technology. – As the robots enter the editorial rooms, the need to guard issues like ethics and data protection is urgent, says centre leader.
Mandana Limbert
Celebrating Barth: On Home and identity in Southern Arabia (23.10.2019)
Students, anthropologists and other invited guests had found their way to attend the Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture 2019, held by Dr. Mandana Limbert.

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