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Global Challenges has allocated funds to stimulate academic cross-faculty collaboration - application deadline 1 October 2026.

Call for applications for funding to stimulate activities that strengthen UiB’s work on global challenges. Application deadline: 1 March.

The data speaks clearly – our planet faces serious challenges, and the ocean is at the heart of them. Next summer we consider both the opportunities and controversies that come with ocean use. Apply by 1 February 2026.

On Wednesday 11 June, the Prime Minister announced that TRUST – the Norwegian Centre for Trustworthy AI – will be one of six new AI centres in Norway. TRUST is a large national consortium of research institutions and scholars, which, through transdisciplinary research, aims to ensure that Norway contributes at the forefront of developing and using responsible, inclusive, and robust AI systems.

The Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen has established the COAST Law Center—a research center for climate, energy, and sustainability law, thematically focused on climate, the ocean, the marine environment, and maritime activities.

Berte-Elen Konow, Torhild Nordtveit and Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui have collaborated with Marta Santos Silva at the University of Minho thanks to the EEA Grants programme to advance sustainable solutions in emerging legal fields.

The SEAS programme at the University of Bergen was recently endorsed as an Ocean Decade Action. It becomes the university’s second Action as part of the United Nations Ocean Decade.