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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.

Africa–Europe research collaborations must move beyond narrow notions of “equitable partnerships” and towards a research system in which African institutions shape agendas, methods and benefits on equal terms.

It’s Thursday, October 30th. The time is 8:00 AM, and outside the HF building, a lively group of 28 students from Langhaugen Upper Secondary School is gathered. The students are ready for action. They’ve been hired as language assistants to give international students in the NOR-INTRO program the opportunity to speak Norwegian with native speakers before their exam. The payment for today’s work... Les mer

The Wits/SapienCE Blombos Museum of Archaeology in Still Bay, Southern Cape, has received the award for Best Innovative Project in the Field of Museums, Heritage, and Geographical Names from the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport.

Did nuns play a more active and influential role in shaping our literary canon? Professor Laura Saetveit Miles, a specialist in British literature, sets high ambitions for her next research project: she aims to demonstrate how women shaped Medieval literature through both reading and writing.

What can the humanities contribute with in our understanding ofthe climate crisis?

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool for stone toolmaking during the Middle Stone Age, demonstrating advanced technical skills far earlier than previously believed.