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ECOPOTENTIAL: improving future ecosystem benefits through earth observations (23.01.2018)
ECOPOTENTIAL is a large European-funded H2020 project that focuses its activities on a targeted set of internationally recognised Protected Areas, blending Earth Observations from remote sensing and field measurements, data analysis and modelling of current and future ecosystem conditions and services.
Breaking BAD meeting
Breaking Bad at Sampol (23.01.2018)
A new research project headed by Prof. Lise Rakner, will research whether dictators are abusing formal institutions in a Backlash Against Democracy (BAD) in Africa, or whether formal institutions increasingly restrain the discretionary power of more-or-less democratic politicians.
Endre Tvinnereim og Siddharth Sareen er nominert til IPCCs klimapanel og arbeidet med den sjette IPCC-rapporten.
CET with two nominees for IPCC (18.01.2018)
Two CET researchers are nominated as candidates for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - and might be selected for the prestigious work on the IPCC's sixth assessment report.
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Remote Sensing and GIS monthly workshop (09.01.2018)
GIS and Remote Sensing are currently some of the most sort after skills for graduates within Geoscience and Geography, both within academia and industry. The Department of Geography will be running a monthly practical workshop throughout the spring semester covering a variety of GIS and Remote Sensing skills.
Johan and Ragnhild
Turning the spotlight on students (05.01.2018)
Johan and Ragnhild are the first-ever conference coordinators at the UiB Collaboratory. This spring, they are up to something big …
New post-doc
New Post-Doc will research political responsiveness (04.01.2018)
- Although elections are essential for the relationship between citizens and the political elite, the post-election phase and the subsequent correspondence between citizens’ expectations and policy outcomes is also fundamental, says new post-doc Andrea Fumarola.
Phd candidate
With democracy in danger, can activists fight back? Scholar studies civil society, regional resistance in Africa (04.01.2018)
SAMPOL’s newest graduate researcher is intrigued by “the many-headed creature that is civil society.”
UiB's Vice-Rector for Global Relations Annelin Eriksen and Professor Edvard Hviding in front of the symbols for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in the United Nations building in New York.
Building global partnerships in New York (03.01.2018)
UiB's new Vice-Rector for Global Relations, Annelin Eriksen, chose New York as the destination for her first international trip after being appointed. In New York she met with diplomats and United Nations officials.
From school to work
From Job-seekers to Self-searchers (03.01.2018)
Kristoffer Vogt recently published an article in Sage Journals about changing contexts and understandings of School-to-work transitions.
Class structure
A struggle on two fronts! (03.01.2018)
Vegard Jarness and Magne Flemmen have recently published an article in The British journal of Sociology regarding boundary drawing in the lower region of the social space and the symbolic market for ‘down-to-earthness’.
BISC
Call for contributions: Bergen International Student Conference 2018 (21.12.2017)
Call for contributions is open for the first edition of the Bergen International Student Conference with the theme “Climate and Society: Transformations in the 21st century”. The conference is organized by CET and the UiB Collaboratory and takes place 5th and 6th of April 2018. We invite student contributions from students from all disciplines.
Endre Tvirrereim
CET scientist Endre Tvinnereim on carbon pricing in Nature (19.12.2017)
Endre Tvinnereim has together with Michael Mehling published a correspondence in Nature titled "Pricing not enough for deep carbon cuts".
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Study Social Anthropology! (18.12.2017)
The Department of Social Anthropology offers two exciting courses taught in English spring semester 2022. No previous requirements are needed and we welcome both international and Norwegian students to participate.
Grant winners
How should we respond to populism? (15.12.2017)
With prestigious grant, professor tackles the challenge of the radical right.
IMEX
Imagining and experiencing the 'refugee crisis' (IMEX) (14.12.2017)
The IMEX-project investigates both the experiences of the recent Syrian diaspora in Europe and of the majority population in Norway.
New Pd.D Svein-Erik Helle
Want to debate African politics? (11.12.2017)
New post-doc tackles (mis)rule in Africa with sharp tongue, sharper ideas
Nordicom Review
Nordicom Review (04.12.2017)
What is the role of photojournalists in an age where the news media is flooded with images from other sources? This is one of many questions investigated in a new Special Issue of Nordicom Review. Astrid Gynnild is one of the issues' four editors.
Research administrator Kårstein Måseide, Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen, Norway.
Science for a better planet (29.11.2017)
A glowing interest in the climate challenges and the need for a transformation of society to minimize these changes made Kårstein Måseide apply for the job as research coordinator at CET. He wants to encourage broad, interdisciplinary climate research.

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