Nyhetsarkiv for Institutt for biovitenskap (BIO)

Join us on June 4, 2026 at Media City Bergen for a day of exceptional talks. This year's event is co-organized by the Michael Sars Centre and the Computational Biology Unit at UiB, and will focus on 'Living systems in a variable ocean'.

Sea lice and bacterial diseases are among the biggest challenges in Norwegian aquaculture. Now, two researchers at the University of Bergen have received funding from the Research Council of Norway to develop new knowledge that can improve fish health and strengthen sustainability in the industry.

A new report has just been launched highlighting how to accelerate the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework through a network of sites working for sustainability and nature conservation.

Norwegian gardens have gone from being full of fruits and berries to becoming flat lawns with trampolines and gas grills. “We have gardens that demand more, but give less back to nature,” says Professor Kyrre Kverndokk.

On April 8–9, 2025, our team had the pleasure of organizing and participating in a hands-on student workshop on microplastics, hosted at the Espeland Marine Biological Station. Nestled by the coast just a short trip from Bergen, this site provided a perfect setting for students from the BIO316 course to immerse themselves in a critical issue facing our oceans: microplastic pollution.

The University of Bergen (UiB) will host another seven international research fellows after a very successful application round in this year’s competition for MSCA funding from the EU. The grants will fund the researchers' stay at UiB for two years.

The UNESCO Chair project BECOME, is one of the initiatives mentioned in the newly published UNESCO report “The Earth Network: sharing tools for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in UNESCO-designated sites”, where they present a toolkit of practices that support both the 2030 Agenda and UNESCO-designated sites.

The CULTIVATE project recently had its first paper published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. In this paper, the authors present a novel transdisciplinary learning framework that links notions of cultural heritage, landscape, and social-ecological systems thinking to support sustainable rural development.