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Roger
Strand
Professor
Visit Address 
Parkveien 9
5007 Bergen
Postal Address 
Postboks 7805
5020 Bergen
Phone 
+47 55 58 34 36
E-mail: 
roger.strand@uib.no
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Building a science for human flourishment

In his opening lecture of the 2023 General Assembly at the Vatican City, UiB professor Roger Strand explored the role of ethics in converging technologies.

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Conference programme

Welcome to the all digital and free SDG Conference Bergen 2023! See the conference programme below. The overall theme of the conference is 'A just transformation to a sustainable future'.

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The 2022 Holberg Week

Join us in the celebration of this years' Holberg Prize Laureate, Nils Klim Prize Laureate and the Holberg Prize School Project winners. The 2022 Holberg Week takes place in Bergen and Oslo 7–10 June.

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An Evening with the Holberg Prize 2022

The Holberg Prize Laureate and the Nils Klim Prize Laureate in conversation about their background and their research.

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Can science make sense of life?

Meet the 2022 Holberg Laureate, Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University) in conversation with Stephen Hilgartner (Cornell University). Coffee/tea will be served before the seminar and light food afterwards. Jasanoff and Hilgartner are internationally leading scholars in Science and Technology Studies ...

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Sheila Jasanoff: Applications

In this seminar, we showed diverse examples of practical applications of the 2022 Holberg Laureate's central concepts.

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How can we study science and technology as social activities?

This question is central to the research of the 2022 Holberg Prize winner, Sheila Jasanoff, who has a long-standing collaboration with University of Bergen researchers.

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Why do we agree on anything at all?

SVT researchers write in Norwegian daily Aftenposten about the 2022 Holberg Prize winner, Sheila Jasanoff, and her research on the relationship between expert knowledge and policy-making.
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Transdisciplinary RRI – AFINO summer school

This summer school is about exploring how synergies between RRI and inter- and transdisciplinarity might help navigate these challenges and increase resilience among the RRI community.

View from a window at Solstrand to the fjord.

CCBIO's 10th Annual Symposium (2022)

Welcome: The 10th CCBIO Annual Symposium will take place at Solstrand Hotel May 10-11 2022.

Frontpage of book The Nexus Times - images of fruits, vegs and plants

Thought-provoking new book about sustainability

Researchers at UiB launch a new book in connection with the completion of the MAGIC project. The publication consists of the project members’ thought-provoking and radical ideas about sustainability.

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AFINO Research School: How to teach RRI and CSR through practice

Are you interested in teaching RRI and CSR? Then this workshop is for you!

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Territories as Responsive and Accountable Networks of S3 through new Forms of Open and Responsible decision-Making (TRANSFORM)

Territories as Responsive and Accountable Networks of S3 through new Forms of Open and Responsible decision-Making (TRANSFORM) is a EU-funded project that puts Responsible Research and Innovation principles into practice.

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New publication in the MAGIC project takes a critical look at circular economy

In a recent article co-authored with Mario Giampietro, UiB professor Silvio Funtowicz criticizes the circular economy concept and proposes a different approach to sustainable growth.

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Scientific Understanding and Provision of an Enhanced and Robust Monitoring system for RRI (SUPER MoRRI)

The SUPER MoRRI project departs from the MoRRI project, the first large-scale attempt at creating a monitoring and evaluation system for RRI.

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Moving Towards Adaptive Governance in Complexity: Informing Nexus Security (MAGIC)

MAGIC was a four-year project funded under the H2020-WATER-2015-two-stage programme; topic “Integrated approaches to food security, low-carbon energy, sustainable water management and climate change mitigation."

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Centre for Cancer Biomarkers - ELSA research

Researchers at SVT are leading the research group on ELSA (Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of new technology) at the Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO) at UiB.

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What is Scientific Excellence?

Welcome to a CCBIO Special Seminar September 19th with the title "What is Scientific Excellence".

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Visit to the Initiative for the Humanistic Study of Innovation at Indiana University

14-15 January 2016, Roger Strand (SVT and CCBIO) took part in two events organized by the Initiative for the Humanistic Study of Innovation at Indiana University in Bloomington, US.

The book cover of "Cancer Biomarkers: Ethics, Economics and Society"

First CCBIO book release

The ethics, economics and ELSA research groups of CCBIO are coordinating their research activities ever more. In April they published their first joint book volume "Cancer Biomarkers: Ethics, Economics and Society".

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The Science-Society Interface Discussed at FEBS Meeting in Barcelona

How do we achieve a real dialogue between Science and Society? What are scientists' responsibilities in this regard? These questions were discussed at a Round Table event 26 October 2017 at the "FEBS3+" conference in Barcelona, gathering biochemists and life scientists from France, Portugal and Spain.

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The transition from a blockbuster to personalised cancer therapy

CCBIO organized a special session with focus on the transition from a blockbuster to personalised cancer therapy at the S.Net conference recently held in Bergen.

The different speakers at the S.Net pre-conference event October 11th.

Reflections on ethics and social aspects in cancer research

11th October, CCBIO hosted a pre-conference event on the Ethical and Social Aspects of Cancer Research as part of the S.Net conference, of the Society for the Study of New and Emerging Technologies.

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UiB report on bioethics to be presented by the Council of Europe

The Council of Europe, with its 47 member states, has for years been involved in international efforts for human rights and bioethics. In particular, it is known for the so-called Oviedo Convention that outlines ethical principles for biomedicine.

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Higher Education Institutions & Responsible Research and Innovation (HEIRRI)

HEIRRI aimed to integrate the concept of “Responsible Research and Innovation” (RRI) into the science and engineering degrees; mainly focusing on universities and other higher education institutions (HEI).

Mini-symposium: Numbers

The Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities welcomes all interested to a mini- symposium on numbers the 11-12 June, 2014.

Integrated Assessment of Societal Impacts of Emerging Science and Technology from within Epistemic Networks (EPINET)

The EPINET project reviewed and evaluated assessment methods, commonly used to address societal impacts of new and emerging S&Ts.

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Responsibility as an Integral Component of Digital Research Practices in Bio-and Nanotechnology (ReDig)

The ReDig project aimed to produce knowledge on how responsibility should be integrated within digital research practices.

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AquaFly

AquaFly investigated insects as a possible safe and healthy ingredient in future feeds.

What can history teach us about the prospects of a European Research Area? (HISTERA)

This study resulted in a report describing some main traits in the development of the European knowledge society up to the present, significantly the tight interactions (co-productions) of science and politics.

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a Transdisciplinary approach to the Emerging CHallenges of NOvel technologies: Lifeworld and Imaginaries in Foresight and Ethics (Technolife)

Technolife's goal was to develop new ethical frameworks to address ethical concerns of Europeans in relation to three technological fields.

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ELSA Research - NANO Ethics

One of SVT's research areas was nano ethics, or more precisely: ethical and societal aspects of nanotechnology.

Dorothy Dankel: Reflexive Systems Biology

Reflexive Systems Biology

Reflexive Systems Biology: Towards an Appreciation of Biological, Scientific and Ethical Complexity was an NFR-funded project that aimed to clarify and assess the ambitions of systems biology and their implications.

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a Transdisciplinary approach to the Emerging CHallenges of NOvel technologies: Lifeworld and Imaginaries in Foresight and Ethics (Technolife)

Technolife's goal was to develop new ethical frameworks to address ethical concerns of Europeans in relation to three technological fields.

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Enzyme development for Norwegian biomass – mining Norwegian biodiversity for seizing opportunities in the bio-based economy (NorZymeD)

NorZymeD focused on developing enzymes and processes for biomasses and value chains where Norway has clear competitive competitive advantages.

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The Human Side of Climate Change

LINGCLIM arranges a multidisciplinary conference on climate change