Please find attached information on the upcoming Symposium on Long-Term Effects of Preterm Birth, which will be held at the Novo Nordisk Foundation January 31, 2017.

Registration for the symposium will be open until January 23. Please note that there are limited seats available and that registration is on a first-come first-served basis.

Further information and link to the registration site can be found on the Foundation’s website: http://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/content/symposium-long-term-effects-preterm-birth

COST is a European network organization including most European countries. An important task for COST is to promote European research collaboration by initiating scientific networks (“COST actions”)

General information on COST is found here: www.forskningsradet.no/COST og http://www.cost.eu/ .

In October 2016 it was decided to start 25 new COST actions of which the following are within medical and health research

SIU wishes to offer guidance on the design of capacity building Applications in Erasmus +, with a deadline of February 9, 2017.

There are no general presentation of Capacity-building measure, but call and guidance on a specific project being planned. It is assumed that the applicant has started writing and sending an application draft to us prior to the meeting so that we can put into the project in advance. Provision of guidance of course apply to the further development of application from previous application rounds. There will be no general application writing seminars for this measure, as we had the previous application round.

Those dates we have set up are the 5th and 6th of December, at 09: 00-16: 00. Location: SIU premises in Fortunen 1, Bergen.

Roland Jonsson appointed honorary member of Norwegian Society of Immunology. K2 congratulates!

How can the teachers learn how the students learn? Deadline for signing up: December 15th

Read more here

This is a collaboration between UoB, UoO, NTNU and Karolinska Institute. The Health innovation school comprises thee modules, and will take place as a pilot in February 2017. There is room for 20 participants of whom 1-2 will come from UiB.

For more information, click here.

Application deadline December 12th, 2016

Attached you will find an invitation and the schedule to the Nordic PhD course Bio-8303: “Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Cancer”. The course will take place at the University of Tromsø in week 10 this year (March 6^th to March 10^th, 2016). An international faculty teaches the course (please find the preliminary lecture schedule attached).

There is no course fee and for the cost of 4.000 NOK each external PhD student will be offered housing at an Apartment Hotel in the centre of Tromsø.

For more information and application see http://uit.no/mcac

Please note that the application deadline is already DECEMBER 1^st.