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Our master’s program Politics and Governance of Global Challenges was awarded the 2025 Study Quality Award!

Learn from the experts – and discover how Europe’s security is being shaped right now.

Anne Lise Fimreite og Jacob Aars have published a new book!

In June 2025 Bjørnar Tessem was elected as the new leader of the Department of Information Science and Media Studies. Lars Nyre will be his deputy leader.

The research project ConFront, based in the Department of Comparative Politics, successfully held its inaugural workshop last month, launching an international collaboration on the study of “contested frontiers.”

It's the early fall of 2024, and this is my first time in a court setting on Swedish territory. I was told by a court employee that there would be a hearing today. I figured I’d show up to see the setting and to get a lay of the land, so I know my way around for next week, where there are multiple hearings scheduled. Seeing as the courts are ‘open to everyone’, why not?

Truth is at stake, and journalism is on the front lines – can it still defend democracy in an age of artificial intelligence and disinformation? That is the question the University of Bergen and the Media Cluster Norway are raising when they organize a the seminar in Brussels.

Postdoctor Özlem Demirkol-Tønnesen will represent UiB in the HUMLIT network, which will study humour literacy across Europe with controbutions from 20+ Partner institutions.