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Monthly Archives: December 2016
Application deadlines
Here you can find this weeks Application deadlines
Want some funding?
Well, then you must at least apply, and this year the application deadline is January 13th!
The intention of small assets (SMÅFORSK) is to support grouos that doesn’t have major funding, to enable them to start new pojects. SMÅFORSK is a joint funding from the NRC and UiB and it has to be used the year it’s granted. Applicants can ask for coverage for travles, seminars, courses, material, technical and administrative assistance and outher operating expenses. In line withthe intentions, it’s a requirement that the applicant is permanent, active researcher at the Department of Clinical Science. The Department management will emphasize that the applicants have Applied for funding from other sources over the two last years.
Criteria and requirements:
- The research group by its leader is the applicant and the purpose must be discussed and prioritized within the research group.
- It must be documented that the group has applied for other external research funding in 2016
- The funding is for one year and have to be used within the Budget year, as the funds are not transferable to the next year.
- The funds will be granted to reseach groups that hasn’t had any lage assets already.
- Documentation on how the funds will be spent must be presented.
Don’t do like he in the parable of the talents that buried this. Use SMÅFORSK to invest in lager future grants.
Good luck !
The Reseach Committee at the Department of Clinical Science allocates funds at the next meeting. Fill in the apllication forms and send them to Siv Johnsen Eggereide
Deadline: January 13th 2017
Eystein Husebye
Deputy Manager
HSE corner – Who are you?
On UiB’s websites, you can search for a person if you need their phone number, email or other info. It is also possible to post a picture of yourself. This is something UiB wishes that we have on our profiles. Unfortunately many here at K2 doesn’t have a picture of themself, but it is very easy to fix.
You can contact Irene Hjelmaas or Ingvild Lekven Jonsvoll (8th floor – lab-building) to get your picture taken. You can upload the Picture on Your profile at www.uib.no/login. You can come by Thursday December 15th at: 9-10 AM or Wednesday December 21st at 10-11 AM to get your picture taken.
It is time to select the best oral and poster presentations held at a conference in 2016!
You are hereby invited to present your work to fellow researchers and the general audience during the traditional event: Research presentations of the year, organized by the The Postgraduate School of Clinical Medical Research. If you have presented a poster or had an oral presentation at a scientific meeting or a conference in 2016, you are welcome to submit your work.
It is really easy – just submit the same poster/abstract that you held at a conference in 2016
Submission deadline is December 18. There will be a poster exhibition, January 23-27, 2017 in the main entrance of the Haukeland University Hospital. Wednesday 24th posters will be presented orally, and selected abstracts will be presented orally on Thursday 25th.
See poster here.
The best presentations will be awarded 5000 NOK!
Use the opportunity to increase the visibility of your research to the hospital, your peers and the public!
Who can participate? All young scientists in the PhD programme, forskerlinje students, master students and postdocs. Information and submission:
Faculty takes 9 of 22 Research Grants
9 of the total 22 FRIPRO scholarships, Research Council handed out to researchers at the Faculty yesteday. Congratulations to Eystein Husebye and Simon Dankel!
Read more here
Educational training of new seminar leaders at UiB for the spring semester 2017
Attached you’ll find information about UiBs offer about educational training for advanced students who will have seminars or supervise written assignments in the spring semester 2017.
Time: Modul 1a + 1b: Monday Januar 9th + Tuesday January 10th at 9.15 AM – 3.00 PM
Modul 2: Wednesday January 11th , at 9.15 AM – 3.00 PM
Place: VilVite senteret, 2nd floor room C + D (Thormøhlens gate 51)
Information about scholarship to USA – Full degree and exchange
Norway-Amerika Association would like to inform about a grant their students to study in the US at the graduate levels (master, PhD, post-doc) can apply.
The deadline is December 18th 2016 for the study autum 2017 and spring 2018. Students do not have admission to school / applied exchange from their institution by the deadline. We support both helgrad and delgrad, and this year allocated we scholarships to 25 students.
Our amounts range from $ 3,000 – $ 20,000, which comes very well to school costs and living expenses.
We often meet students who are not thinking about financing before they enter the program and hope that you can remind those on being early to think about funding
For more information, see www.noram.no/graduate-stipender/.
Do you have staff / professors or others who want to have a stay in the United States, to research or teach a semester? Our partner organization in the US, American Scandinavian Foundation has a scholarship named Visiting Lectureships. Application deadline is 15 February 2017 and we recommend starting early with an application
Infomation Meeting December 13th 2016 – #ORG2022
The University director invites all employees at UiB to the information meeting:
Time: Tuesday, December 13th 2016 at 1.30 PM – 3.30 PM
Place: The Universitetsaula
For more information, program and registration – click here
Teknikkerforum 15th of December
Dear all,
Attached you can find the program for the next Technician Forum.
It will take place Thursday 15th December, 13:00 – 15:00, meeting room 9.1 and 9.2 of laboratory building.
Topics:
Julie Stavnes: Season greeting from the Head of Administration
Caroline Benedicte Nitter Engen: Ethical aspects and future perspectives in regards to personalized medicine
Thank you for your help in making the forum.
Welcome!
Technician forum community: Ersilia Bifulco, Jenny Zhang, Tove Folkestad
The Translational Hematology Cluster presents «Therapy Development in Malignant Blood Disease
The Translational Hematology Cluster invites all interested to participate in this semesters half-day seminar with the theme «Therapy Development in Malignant Blood Disease». Topics from basal research developing novel cancer therapeutics to implementation of new drugs in the clinic will be covered.
Time: 14th of December, 12:00
Venue: Conference room, 3rd floor, BBB.
For the program, click here
Looking forward to seeing you there!
New times for mail at UiB
The Estate and Facilities Management division has given notice that it’s new times for retrievel of mail (internal and external mail)
All mail will be fetched at 1:40 p.m.
Last Network Luncheon this year 13’th of December
You are all invited to the luncheon next Tuesday, 13’th December.
All you need to do, is to send me an e-mail (Carine.Lindquist@uib.no) before 12’th of December that you will like to attend.