The Research Council’s Innovation Award is given to an individual, business or public entity that has achieved innovation through the strategic use of research. To be eligible, the candidate must have received Research Council funding.

For the award, we are always looking for candidates who are involved in moving boundaries for what is possible within a field. The winner receives honor and glory and half a million kroner. The money will be used for innovation activities.

https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/about-the-research-council/Awards/innovation-award/

Horizon Europe work programme for 2023-24 in the health cluster has been published. Many interesting opportunities for K2 researchers to apply for Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) in all destinations:

• Destination 1 – Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society
• Destination 2. Living and working in a health-promoting environment
• Destination 3. Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
• Destination 4. Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health care
• Destination 5. Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
• Destination 6. Maintaining an innovative, sustainable and globally competitive health industry

Many pandemic related calls included. Also personalized medicine. Interdisciplinary approach and collaboration with social sciences and humanities (SSH) often requested. Contact your research advisor (susanna.pakkasmaa@uib.no) for more information.

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The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) has now launched IHI – calls 1 and 2.

IHI – call 1 is a single-stage call for proposals with the following topics:

• Topic 1: An innovative decision-support system for improved care pathways for patients with neurodegenerative diseases and comorbidities
• Topic 2: Next generation imaging and image-guided diagnosis and therapy for cancer
• Topic 3: Personalised oncology: innovative people centred, multi-modal therapies against cancer
• Topic 4: Access and integration of heterogeneous health data for improved healthcare in disease areas of high unmet public health need

Deadline for full proposals: 20 September 2022
Call web page: https://bit.ly/3njHZhf

IHI – call 2 is a two-stage call for proposals with the following topics:

• Topic 1: Cardiovascular diseases – improved prediction, prevention, diagnosis, and monitoring
• Topic 2: Setting up a harmonised methodology to promote uptake of early feasibility studies for clinical and innovation excellence in the European Union

Deadline for short proposals: 20 September 2022
Call web page: https://bit.ly/39T3EKe

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COST is a European networking organization where most European countries (including Norway and all EU countries) are members. An important task for COST is to promote European research cooperation by initiating scientific networks (COST Actions). More information about COST can be found on their website http://www.cost.eu/ .

In May 2022, it was decided to initiate 70 new COST networks. Networks within or relevant to medical and health research are listed in the table.

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Open Call, Rosa sløyfe, Krefttak mot Kreft og geografisk spredning

The Cancer Society works to fight and prevent cancer, and to ensure the best possible life for cancer patients and their relatives. The Norwegian Cancer Society announces funding for research projects in these thematic areas:

• Free cancer research (Open Call, NOK 130 million).
• Breast cancer (Pink ribbon, NOK 28 million).
• Cancer with spread (Efforts against cancer, NOK 20 million).
• Cancer research at institutions outside the big cities (NOK 8 million).

For more information on this call: https://kreftforeningen.no/forskning/sok-forskningsmidler/

Are you planning to apply to the Norwegian Cancer Society in 2022? Then you must fill in the form below:

Jeg planlegger å søke Kreftforeningen med frist 31. mai

Det er valg til Universitetsstyret for gruppe B neste uke.

I henhold til universitets- og høyskoleloven skal det hvert år velges representanter for gruppe B ( midlertidig vitenskapelig ansatte i undervisnings- eller forskerstilling) til universitetsstyret. Kandidatene blir valgt for perioden 1.8.2022-31.7.2023. Det skal velges ett medlem og minst to varamedlemmer av og blant de ansatte i gruppe B.

Forslagsfrist: 1. mars 2022 kl 12.00

Valgperiode: mandag 4. til torsdag 7. april 2022. Det elektroniske valglokalet åpner
kl 09:00 mandag og avsluttes kl 12:00 torsdag.

les mer om Kandidatene til universitetsstyret her!

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Trond Mohn Research Foundation (TMS) has announced a new round of TMS Starting Grant with final deadline 8. March (more info here). Since there are restrictions in the number of candidates each department can nominate, we kindly ask interested applicants to send a 1-2 page sketch describing the candidate, the project and the research environment in addition to the candidate’s CV (TMS asks for a maximum 3-page CV listing the most important and relevant publications).

The internal deadline is 18 February. You can send the sketch and CV to amra.grudic@uib.no with Pål Njølstad, Silke Appel and Mia Holmaas on copy.

Please note that this fellowship provides an opportunity to recruit external candidates something the foundation and the Faculty of Medicine strongly encourage.

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Good ideas occur everywhere at the University of Bergen, and with UiB idé students and researchers  can test and develop their innovation ideas. Students can get up to NOK 100 000, and researchers NOK 500 000. You will also get advice from professional advisers.

The application deadline is March 15^th.

Read more about the program at uib.no/ide and join the information webinar on February 7^th. Students can also register for the UiB idé vors on February 14^th. This year you can also apply for a maximum of NOK 25 000 through UiB tidleg idé, and applications are received all year.

It is time for the allocation of small research funds (SMÅFORSK). The funds are a joint effort between NFR and UiB. The intention is that the funds should be given to research groups that have not received large grants so that they can start new projects. It can be applied to cover expenses for travel, seminars, courses, materials, technical-administrative assistance and other operating costs.

Requirements for application and criteria for allocation:

– The funds go to researchers who do not have large operating assets already.
– The size of the individual grants is between 15 000-150 000 NOK.
– The funds must be used by 2022 and cannot be transferred.
– Recipients must be active researchers in a permanent scientific position at K2, Prof. II or 1.am. II.
– Recipients must have applied for external funds in recent years.

All permanent scientific employees (including scientific employees in 10-50% position) at K2 can apply. It is done via this link (https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=12027613). Deadline is 13.2.2022.

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We are inviting applications for the role of co-Editor-in-Chief for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Case Reports, an open access journal endorsed by the European Society of Endocrinology.

For full details please visit https://edm.bioscientifica.com/page/EIC-vacancy.
Applications are due by Friday 18th February 2022.

Many thanks and best wishes,
Laura Martin
Publisher, EDM Case Reports

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