The Faculty of Medicine invites all PhD-candidates to a workshop on “How to write a successful grant proposal”.

The workshop will enable PhD-candidates in medicine and sciences to start early with their future research project. Participants will gain insight into the international funding landscape and develop hands-on knowledge by working on their own project proposal.

Target audience: PhD-candidates enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine who want to kick-start their academic career in the nearest future.

Topics:
The literary genre of a project proposal
Evaluation criteria: excellence, impact, implementation
Curriculum vitae and track record
The funding landscape in Norway and Europe

Speakers: Research advisors at the Faculty of Medicine

Time: The workshop will go over to half-days, with obligatory homework to be submitted on the second day.

Monday 22 May, 10-12 and
Wednesday 24 May, 10-13

Place: Eitri Medical Incubator, Haukelandsbakken 31, Bergen

Course fee: free

Registration deadline 10 May.
Info and registration: PhD grant writing workshop | Faculty of Medicine | UiB

On the 24th of May, Florian Krammer from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, who is an expert in virology, will visit Bergen and give a talk for us. After the talk, we will gather for free pizza, drinks and an engaging (immunology) quiz. Everybody is welcome! Please hold the day and stay tuned for more info!

More info about Florian and his work can be found here.

For NSI, Bergithe (Bergen contact person, NSI) and Anette (board member, NSI) and Rebecka Cox (Leader, Influenza Centre, Bergen)

Det medisinske fakultet har gleden av å invitere til fysisk heldagsseminar for ph.d.-veiledere den 21.april.

Se vedlagt PDF for mer informasjon og påmelding.

The Program of University Pedagogy invites you to attend the UiB Læringskonferanse, held at the UiB Studentsenter  on April 25, 2023. The conference will feature keynotes by Cathy Bovill (University of Edinburgh) and Crina Damşa (University of Oslo), a panel discussion with bioCEED, iEarth, & SLATE, and over 40 papers and posters from people at UiB and other institutions. The theme for this year’s conference is Transformative Learning and Teaching.

The UiB Læringskonferanse is free and open to all members of the UiB community. It will an opportunity to learn, discuss, and celebrate transformative and research-based practices in university teaching and learning. We invite all teachers at UiB to attend the conference. The contributions share inquiry on teaching and learning from the UiB community, and presentations on practice and research will focus on student learning through examination of classroom teaching practices, field or practical teaching, use of educational technologies, curriculum revision, use of accessible and inclusive teaching methods, and supervision.

The Læringskonferanse is intended to be an opportunity to connect with a community of teachers and to learn together about transformative teaching practice.

More information about the conference is available here.

The conference is free and open to all and includes lunch and refreshments. Therefore, we do ask that you register by 20. April for catering and planning purposes.

Registrer here.

UiB FERD Career Centre for Early-Stage Researchers supports doctoral candidates, postdocs, researchers and assistant professors who are in the early stage of their careers. There are activities every month, so make sure to check them out:
• 27th April 09:00-11:30 – Healthy Working Habits: Time management and writing motivation.
• 28th April 10:15-11:00 – Finding and reusing research data.
• 05th May 09:00-11:00 – How to write a competitive CV for the industry?
• 23rd May 17:00-20:00 – Intermediate level: Improve your academic writing and presentation Skills in English.

Are you looking for a postdoctoral period abroad? Or are you a foreign researcher planning your application for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship (PF) at a Norwegian host institution? Or you may be  a potential supervisor for a MSCA postdoctoral fellow at your lab or institute?

26 April 09:30 – 11:30

https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/events/2023/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships-webinar/

Hva gjør sommertid og vintertid med søvnen vår? Blir vi syke av å stille klokken? Skal vi ha evig sommertid eller evig vintertid? Hvem skal vi ta hensyn til, folk i Kirkenes eller Bergen?

Tid og sted: Litteraturhuset (rom: Alver), tirsdag 28. mars klokken 19-20:30. Gratis.

https://svf-selskapet.w.uib.no/?na=v&nk=25-b052b85ef1&id=67

May 24, 2023
10:00 – 11:30 CET

This online COST Info Day is open to all researchers and innovators at any career stage and from any field of research, especially young researchers, as well as R&I staff. The aim is to inform researchers and innovators about how to connect with COST Actions or submit a COST Action proposal, the role and impact of the COST programme, and the benefits of participating in COST for researchers’ careers, with a focus on young researchers.

Programme overview
10:00 | Welcome and introduction | Director of the COST Association
10:10 | What is COST and how to participate in a COST Action? | COST Policy Officer
10:30 | How to submit an application? Tips & tricks | COST Science Officer
10:40 | Which activities are funded? | COST Administrative Officer
11:00 | What are the benefits of participating in COST? | COST Action Chair
11:15 | Q&A
11:30 | End of the session

https://www.cost.eu/cost-events/online-cost-info-day-2023/

CCBIO PI Emmet McCormack is organizing a meeting for the COST Action “Modelling immunotherapy response and toxicity in cancer”, fostering research and innovation in the field of preclinical immuno-oncology models with the ultimate goal of advancing in the treatment of cancer patients by improving their outcomes and quality of life.

The COST action group is pleased to invite you to the first online workshop of the COST Action “Modelling immunotherapy response and toxicity in cancer” (IMMUNO-model) to be held on the 30th March 2023. See scientific program here.

The IMMUNO-model COST Action aims at fostering research and innovation in the field of preclinical immuno-oncology models with the ultimate goal of advancing in the treatment of cancer patients by improving their outcomes and quality of life.

The “Modeling Immuno-Oncology” workshop will focus on in vivo, ex vivo and in vitro models. Please find attached the program.

Internationally renowned speakers will present their work on a rich selection of topics such as targeted therapies, the role of select pathways and translational patient models.

To register in advance for this workshop please follow this link:
https://igtp-cat.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcOqgrjMpE9HckqYte-j1lnfidf…

After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the meeting.

If you are a participant of this COST Action, you will also receive an invitation through the e-COST platform: please accept the invitation and then follow the link to sign up for the meeting by filling in the Zoom registration form.

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!

More information

Dear all,

A kind reminder of the invitation to the 11^th CCBIO Annual Symposium May 8-10 at Hotel Solstrand close to Bergen – this is booking well, so if you have not registered yet, make sure to do that now while we still can accommodate you at the lovely Solstrand hotel. Deadline is March 31. The symposium is open for all, so please feel free to circulate this invitation.

The 2022 symposium was a success with more than 240 participants, and we expect the enlarged 2023 symposium to be even better with its generous time frame and two overnight stays. You can choose between attending online for scientific updates, or in-person at Hotel Solstrand in order to also enjoy the company of colleagues and the informal and mutually fertilizing scientific crosstalk in the breaks and the evenings.  We expect the symposium to become fully subscribed, and we strongly recommend you to register early and within the deadline of March 31.

We have secured a range of international speakers: Alexander Swabrick, Amy Leblanc, Anniina Färkkilä, Benno Schwikowski, Douglas Lauffenburger, Frederic Amant, Iain McNeish, Ian Mills, Ingrid Hedenfalk, Klaus Pantel, Michael Rogers, Caroline Heckman, Rameen Beroukhim, Robert D’Amato, Stephane Terry, Catherine Panabieres and Jean Paul Thiery. See prefinal program here.

Younger researchers are offered slots for 3-minute speed-talks as well as extended poster sessions with ample time for interaction between the participants. There is still time to register for speed talks and/or poster.

The heavily subsidized registration fee is 3000 NOK/300 Euro per person for the three days and two overnight stays with full board. In order to enable us to accommodate 200+ participants in the 138 rooms available, we are dependent upon as many as possible sharing rooms (up to four).  So, please indicate if, and with whom, you are willing to share your room when you register online.

For an overview of speakers, registration and the practical information sheet (obligatory reading before asking questions), please consult the links below:

Symposium website: www.ccbiosymposium.no

Registration: please use this link

Practical information: on this link

Further information about CCBIO:  www.ccbio.no

We look forward to seeing you at our symposium!

On behalf of CCBIO’s Director, Lars A. Akslen

With best regards
Eli Synnøve Vidhammer
Communications
Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO
University of Bergen
Norway

Norges forskningsråd arrangerer “ERC søknadslesedager” for forskere som planlegger en søknad til The European Research Council (ERC).

På lesedagen får du mulighet til å se på søknader som har fått finansiering fra ERC, for å se hvordan et vellykket ERC-prosjekt kan struktureres. Over 60 norske ERC-grantees har vært så vennlige å gi tillatelse til at vi kan gjøre søknaden deres tilgjengelig på lesedagen.

18 april kl 9-12 https://www.forskningsradet.no/arrangementer/2023/erc-soknadslesedag-bergen-morgen/

18 april kl 12.30-15.30 https://www.forskningsradet.no/arrangementer/2023/erc-soknadslesedag-i-bergen-ettermiddag/

One of the building blocks contributing to the positive evaluation of your Impact section in a Horizon Europe proposal is a well-written sub-section of Measures to Maximise Impact that describes your planned dissemination, exploitation and communication activities.

During this webinar, we will dive deep into the understanding of the EC’s goals that stand behind these proposed activities and share with you numerous practical tips and tricks that will help you develop a competitive dissemination and exploitation part of your proposal, as well as a strong set of communication activities.

This webinar session will take place on March 30th 2023 at 10:30 CET. 

https://tools.enspire.science/live-webinar-registration-page/

Forskningsdagene arrangeres fra 20. september – 1. oktober 2023. Meld interesse for å bidra under forskningsfestivalen!

Forskningsdagene (20.09.-01.10.23) er en årlig, nasjonal festival i regi av Norges Forskningsråd. I Bergen arrangeres Forskningsdagene som et samarbeid mellom byens sentrale forsknings- og utdanningsinstitusjoner der UiB er den største bidragsyteren. Forskningsdagene er en glimrende mulighet til å formidle forskning ut til et bredt publikum og gjøre UiB-forskningen bedre kjent – både lokalt, regionalt og nasjonalt.

https://www.uib.no/foransatte/17362/forskningsdagene