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UiB in global initiative to prevent species extinctions (29.03.2021)

“We must pull together as a global community to limit ongoing loss of biodiversity” says Michael Pirie, of UiB’s University Gardens.

Rector Margareth Hagen from the University of Bergen opens the 2021 SDG Conference Bergen.

UiB supports joint global SDG statement (29.03.2021)

Rector Margareth Hagen is one of 58 university leaders from around the world to sign a joint statement reaffirming the University of Bergen’s commitment to the 2030 Agenda and to work for global collaboration.

Margareth Hagen is the winner of the rectorial election at UiB (25.03.2021)

For the next four years, Team Hagen will lead the University of Bergen, the largest knowledge institution in western Norway

UNESCO's Man and Biosphere programme celebrates 50 years

UiB researcher becomes global biodiversity ambassador (24.03.2021)

UNESCO has announced Postdoctoral fellow Alicia May Donnellan Barraclough as one of five global Young Spokespeople for its Man and Biosphere programme.

The S4D4C plenary on Strengthening Science Diplomacy Transboundary Institutions on Thursday 18 March2021 brilliantly summed up in this illustration.

Bringing science and knowledge to diplomacy (19.03.2021)

“Science is not negotiable, but it can be ignored,” said Professor Edvard Hviding in a debate on transboundary institutions at the S4D4C final networking meeting.

Edvard Hviding from the University of Bergen and Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen from the Arctic University of Norway at a science diplomacy workshop in Bergen in February 2020.

Funding for science diplomacy network (15.03.2021)

The Research Council of Norway is supporting the establishment of the Norway-EU Science Diplomacy Network with NOK 1 million. This is the first time SDG Bergen is partner in a research grant.

Selected for the Young CAS Fellow programme (10.03.2021)

Medieval philologist Helen Leslie-Jacobsen is one of four young, outstanding researchers in Norway who will participate in the Young CAS Fellow programme. She will do research on medieval ballads from the Faroe Islands.

UiB joins Global Coalition to protect biodiversity (02.03.2021)

On World Wildlife Day 3 March 2021, the University of Bergen becomes the first Norwegian institution and first university worldwide to join the European Commission’s Global Coalition United for Biodiversity.

Amund Maage (right) and Giulia Testa speaking at a session during the 2021 SDG Conference Bergen.

Solutions for coastal communities post COVID (02.03.2021)

Is investing in coastal and marine ecosystem restoration and protection the way to stimulate the blue economy post COVID-19? This was one of the questions in a special parallel session on coastal communities at the 2021 SDG Conference Bergen.