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Read the latest updates on the OceanStates front in our research blog.
Assistant professor at UiB, Aaron Spitzer says his «life’s work» has involved seeking to understand, and trying somehow to be useful to, Arctic peoples and places.
The students at the Faculty of Social Sciences shall be seen and followed up. — This works, says the dean, Jan Erik Askildsen.
Did you miss Finn Gunnar Nielsens presentation of NVE's report on new areas for renewable energy production at sea? Watch it here! Please note that the presentation was given in Norwegian language.
Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions for 2023-2024. Deadline 7 June, 2023.
Did you miss Kristin Margrethe Flornes presentation of Eviny's pilot project from PILOT-E to develop solutions for increased flexibility in the power system? Watch it here!
A doctoral fellowship in social anthropology is available at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway.
In this presentation, Ingvald Torblå, CEO of Odda Technology, presents the plans and current status of the Green energy project Hardanger Hydrogen Hub.
Do you want to learn more about how anthropology approaches technology that will make us immortal? Or about how our senses – sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch – can be experienced differently in different cultures? Do you want to understand how Eastern Europe as a region is affected by the war in Ukraine? Or how about gaining in-depth insight into how people who must flee from their home... Read more
Erick Alvarez Barreno is the department's newest PhD candidate
- As long as we don't know more about how Big Tech use the information we share with them, we should be careful about feeding the AI technology with potentially sensitive material, writes experts from the department in an op-ed published in Medier24.
During the conference on "Pandemic, diversity and social inequality" in Bergen in October, researchers started working on a declaration based on knowledge and experiences from the pandemic. The declaration has now been published and is open to read.
Carlo Koos from the Department of Government is one of the authors of this new article published in American Political Science Review.
New article in the prestigious Journal of Social Policy: PhD candidate Mathea Loen and Professor Marit Skivenes finds that a majority of populations in Czechia, England, Finland, Norway, Poland, and Romania express confidence in their child protection system.
Several members of the System Dynamics Group at University of Bergen received prestigious awards from the System Dynamics Society at the International System Dynamics Conference 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany.
Interested in reading about what happened at CET in 2022? Our Annual Report for 2022 is now ready for download.
The students in EUR105 received a visitor from the European Commission.

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