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Project on school choice in Europe (06.08.2021)
The project «Admission Impossible? School Choice in European Cities» received a 12 million Norwegian kroner grant from the Norwegian Research Council after this year’s spring-call.
Job opening
Postdoc in urban governance and sustainable transformation available (09.07.2021)
CET is seeking a postdoc for three years to help us develop our research. Deadline September 11th!
Migrants boarding a ship in the Mediterranean.
A world in refuge (17.06.2021)
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.
Bilde professor Jens E. Kjeldsen
Jens E. Kjeldsen - The Rhetorical Power of Images (17.06.2021)
Professor Jens E. Kjeldsen has delivered a keynote at the Association for Visual Pedagogies (AVP) 2021 Conference
Petter Krogh Nilsen, hovedtaler MA
Congratulations with your master's degree (17.06.2021)
We would like to congratulate everyone who has completed their master's degree at the Faculty of Social Sciences autumn 2020 and spring 2021.
Sami activist and artist Andy Somby, Aaron John Spitzer and Per Selle, UiB
Arctic research comes in from the cold (14.06.2021)
How SAMPOL is on the frontier of polar political science
Katja Enberg and Gabriella Ljungström, BSRS 2021
Gathered PhD candidates from 49 countries around the SDGs (09.06.2021)
For the second time, the annual Bergen Summer Research School was an online event — this time with special sessions on systems-thinking and innovative digital social activities.
Stein Rokkan
Stein Rokkan 100 years (08.06.2021)
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’.
drone photo of an abandon buliding site, showing several houses built in a circle formation. Those that have a roof has a bright red roof.
The state of public housing in Ghana (04.06.2021)
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.
Students in the museum garden
Master's theses in geography 2021 (02.06.2021)
This year we have two submission deadlines each semester for the master's thesis in geography: 19 May and 2 August in the spring semester and 15 November and 3 January in the autumn semester. 19 students have submitted the thesis this year.
ClimatenergyTalk!
ClimatenergyTalk! (26.05.2021)
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!
black and white image of man running
CET Accelerator funding 2021 (11.05.2021)
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.
Migration
Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration (11.05.2021)
Associate Professor Regine Paul at the department has just published the Edward Elgar Handbook on "the Governance and Politics of Migration"
Book cover
Experiences and challenges of performance management (10.05.2021)
Per Lægreid and Tom Christensen with new chapter in Handbook of Public Administration
University Museum Gardens
Global Health and Public Administration most popular with international applicants (07.05.2021)
Four of the five most popular master programmes among international applicants directly tackle global challenges. 
Syriske flyktninger
Syrian civil war at 10: 5,6 million Syrians have fled the country (07.05.2021)
Still, a handful of neighboring states continue to host the majority of Syrian refugees.
Nina innlegg Christiekonferansen
Department of Economics at Christie Conference (28.04.2021)
The Christie Conference is one of Norway's most important meeting places for academia, business, culture and society. UiB invites decision makers and key people from business, cultural life, public sector, NGO's and the media. This year associate professor Eeva Mauring, assistant professor Nina Serdarevic and head of Department Tommy S. Gabrielsen participated with engaging lectures.
two men shaking hands with certificate and flowers
Five years of the city as a living laboratory (21.04.2021)
The end of 2020 marked the close of our major project European cities as actors in climate and energy transformation project, funded by the Trond Mohn Foundation. Among the achievements, we are particularly proud of how the project has helped to develop the careers of researchers across the fields of sustainable city planning, governance, communications and media and social movements.

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