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Watch the 2020 SDG Conference Bergen (06.02.2020)
Action was the key word at the 2020 SDG Conference Bergen, the national conference for the university sector in Norway. Stream the entire conference here.
Scientific Director Lise Øvreås from Ocean Sustainability Bergen and Marine Director Nils Gunnar Kvamstø at the University of Bergen, photographed in January 2020.
Urging political leaders into action (31.01.2020)
Four SDG14 targets are maturing in 2020 and with the University of Bergen's leadership in ocean science and sustainability, the university will take these targets to decision-makers over the course of the upcoming year.
Money Talks Professor Ragnhild Muriaas in Malawi during political campaign
Patriarchal structures an obstacle to women in politics in many countries (27.01.2020)
– Most often the priviliged are the winners in politics, and who is priviliged depends on gender, says professor Ragnhild Muriaas, who has lead the research project Money Talks.
Kangaroo Mother Care.
Kangaroo Mother Care Reduces Infant Mortality (09.01.2020)
When newborn babies with low birth weight are held close to their mother´s bodies throughout the day, their chance of survival increases substantially.
Professor Hakan G. Sicakkan from the University of Bergen speaking at the launch of the UN Global Academic Network of migration experts in Geneva in December 2019.
Bringing science to Global Refugee Forum (09.01.2020)
The University of Bergen political scientist Hakan G. Sicakkan has been named as one of the members in the UN Global Academic Network of migration experts.
Utsiktsbilde Blombos Cave
Inside Henshilwood’s Cave (30.12.2019)
The archaeologists who found the World's oldest man-made drawing are back in Blombos Cave in search of new discoveries. Professor Henshilwood welcomes us to the cave to show us his team at work as they dig for clues that can tell us how early humans lived.
Iain Johnston
A new tool uncovers how a disease develops in individual patients (05.12.2019)
UiB and Imperial College researchers have developed a tool which predicts how progressive diseases like cancer and malaria develop in individual patients. In addition, the tool uncovers how bacteria develop resistance to certain drugs.
Director Lise Øvreås from Ocean Sustainability Bergen flanked by her University of Bergen colleagues Karin Pittman (left) and Anders Goksøyr during the first meeting of the IAU SDG14 Team.
First meeting for ocean sustainability cluster (21.11.2019)
In November 2018 the University of Bergen was officially announced as the leader of the SDG14 Cluster for the International Association of Universities (IAU). In November 2019 the IAU SDG14 Cluster met for the first time – at least virtually.
Mother Afica welcome home Exhibition from Blombos
Recreating the lives of our ancestors (11.11.2019)
New digital technology makes it possible to recreate the lives led by our ancestors 100,000 years ago.
Portrettt Håvard Haarstad
Doing time for the climate (04.11.2019)
According to Håvard Haarstad, scientists have to commit to doing everything they can to get society moving in the right direction. His own commitment to saving the world earned him a night in prison in New York.
A student from the University of Bergen holds a starfish found in the waters close to Bergen, Norway.
Research and activities at the UNAI SDG14 Hub (24.10.2019)
On UN Day 2018 – 24 October, the University of Bergen was announced as the official UNAI Hub for SDG14 – Life below water. One year on, we reflect upon our activities in the year gone and present some of our future plans.
Professor Edvard Hviding moderated panel of Ngedikes Olai Uludong from Palau at UN, CEO Yimnang Golbuu from Palau International Coral Reef Centre, former IOC chair Peter M. Haugan and Kjell Kristian Egge from Norway MFA at Our Ocean 23 October 2019
Reinventing the laws of the sea (24.10.2019)
In partnership with Palau's UN Mission and IOC-UNESCO, the University of Bergen arranged a side event at Our Ocean to discuss the science necessary to secure marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction as part of international law.
Media Futures christoff Trattner spaserer i gangen med robot
30 mill Euro plan to develop responsible media technology (23.10.2019)
Researchers at Media City Bergen and key media partners seek to establish a centre for developing responsible media technology. – As the robots enter the editorial rooms, the need to guard issues like ethics and data protection is urgent, says centre leader.
ESS tildeling
Digsscore granted national responsibility for European Social Survey ESS (22.10.2019)
– We are very happy to mark our position as a national competence centre on survey data and development of the survey method, says deputy dean Ragnhild Muriaas.
Norway's Special Representative for the Ocean, Mr. Vidar Helgesen, gave an impassioned speech for the ocean and the blue economy when he gave the first Annual Ocean Sustainability Bergen Lecture on 21 October 2019.
Ocean conference with a focus on science-policy nexus (21.10.2019)
190 scientists, students and ocean enthusiasts gathered in the University Aula for the inaugural Ocean Sustainability Bergen Conference and speeches on current research and inspirational speeches on a sustainable ocean.
Åslaug Ommundsen has researched Medieval manuscript culture in Norway.
Manuscripts that link Europe together (21.10.2019)
“I never tire of studying medieval manuscripts. Even though my source material is Norwegian, it is also fundamentally international. This gives the research a broader perspective and forces international cooperation”, Professor Åslaug Ommundsen says.
Ambassador Peter Thomson speaks at his public lecture on 15 October 2019 after being awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Bergen. He focussed on the urgent need for ocean action to rescue the planet.
Making tough decisions for the ocean (16.10.2019)
“A new deal for nature is on everyone's lips,” said Ambassador Peter Thomson in his public lecture after becoming an honorary doctor at the University of Bergen.
Christoph Heinze (UiB og Bjerknessenteret) og Thorsten Blenckner (Stockholm Resilience Centre) ønsket over 80 forskere velkommen til Bergen i dag, når COMFORT prosjektet setter I gang. Heinze (til venstre) og Blenckner leder et forskerteam som skal under
Our safe operating spaces for our common future ocean in the Earth system (09.10.2019)
What are our safe operating spaces for the ocean? This is the starting question for the new EU Horizon 2020 project COMFORT.

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