October is National Security Awareness Month. The University of Bergen (UiB) therefore plans to have an extra special focus on information security in October.

UiB aims to be a safe and secure place to study and work, whether you are based at home or on campus. We therefore want all students and employees to be fully aware of security.

Many employees and students have already completed the e-learning course in Data protection and Information security on Mitt UiB in order to improve their knowledge of security. If you have not yet had the time to take the course, please do so now https://mitt.uib.no/enroll/MDW74H.

We also recommend following the internal news channel På høyden this month https://pahoyden.no (NO), which will highlight relevant subjects, such as challenges relating to working from home, where to find help and, not least, how to report a breach of IT security.

Click here to read more about National Security Awareness Month at UiB https://www.uib.no/en/foremployees/120461/october-security-awareness-month.

Sikresiden.no also provides a lot of helpful information about information security and data protection  https://www.sikresiden.no/en?locality=196

Bergithe was K2’s “frontrunner” in the Corona era and was our primary contact for questions regarding digital teaching. Now the faculty has decided to stop the frontrunner project. From now on, the study administration is first-line contact (studie@kliniskmedisin.uib.no). Moreover, there are many useful online resources available, this website (https://www.uib.no/med/136919/undervisning-h%C3%B8sten-2020-ved-det-medisinske-fakultet) is, for example, a good starting point for help with self-help. The learning lab also has many useful suggestions (uib.no/learning lab). On Teams, “K2 digital undervisning” is recommended for all lecturers. We have also purchased several PCs to borrow for teaching, contact Julie (julie.stavnes@uib.no).).

Can Multidisciplinary Teams Improve Norwegian Primary Care?

Professor Thomas Bodenheimer fra USCF er dette årets Falch foreleser.

Press here for more information about the topic and link to the meeting room.

The faculty has made a new online course in Health Research Act (MED-HELFORSK) which is accessible for everybody via mittuib. The course is mandatory for PhD fellows and from 2021 also for supervisors. Everybody is encouraged to take the course! Currently in Norwegian only but will soon be available in English.

Dear PhD students (even some who have already (just!) finished, some who are about to finish!!),

For the second year in a row, UiB will host the Ocean Sustainability Conference in Bergen, hosted by Ocean Sustainability Bergen (OSB) led by Prof. Lise Øvreås on November 11, 2020.

This year we invite motivated students from Mat.Nat., Social Science, Medicine and Law, indeed ALL faculties, to present posters on their research related to Ocean biodiversity, sustainability, blue carbon, marine innovation, marine exploration, seafood, human health, policy and climate change themes. We will host a hybrid conference this year, with most participants following online and some in the Aula. Thus, we are thinking a bit out-of-the-box when it comes to the poster session:

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