Research for the students
The students at the faculty want to have more contact with researchers and academic life. A portal where students can get in touch with us researchers at the departments is therefore being established at the faculty. It is important that more researchers, from PhD-level up to professor, sign up for this portal so that we can reach out to many students. I encourage everyone to participate, see more details about this here.
Enjoy the weekend!
Pål R. Njølstad
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Dear all,
This year’s Broegelmann lecture will be held the 30th May. It is given by Professor Marie Wahren Herlenius, Professor at KI and Professor II at UiB. She has a longstanding interest in Sjögren’s syndrome and has used Sjögren’s patient material to dissect underlying molecular mechanisms of sexual dimorphism in autoimmune diseases. We can look forward to an interesting seminar!
Best regards,
Helena
As previously announced, a basic course will be arranged on June 8., which will be repeated on August 23., and a course for advanced students on June 15., which will be repeated on August 30., all between 1000-1100 hrs. Stina Nilsson Helander from Mentimeter will guide us through the course, and will go through everything you need to know to start with Mentimeter. Stina is from Sweden and there will be an opportunity to ask questions in both Norwegian and English both course days. You can ask along the way, and she will also be available for 15 minutes afterwards if any questions.
I work as a research and education consultant, Ph.D.-Coordinator, and study advisor at K2. In practice, this means that I manage most of the work around dissertations and mid-term evaluations. In addition, I have other task in the administration in K2.
What I like best about my job are my colleagues and the good working environment. We are a nice bunch who work for the workplace to bee as good as possible for both candidates and employees at UiB.
Right now I am working on coordinating the semesters final dissertations, so that everyone who is going to defend their thesis before the summer, gets what they need from hotels, dinners, flowers, lunch, auditoriums, robes, folders, messages, signatures etc.
I am lucky to be able to participate in the education of tomorrow`s researchers. It is very fun to collaborate with professionally skilled colleagues and there are always exciting new tasks to get better at!
EU Missions are a new way to bring concrete solutions to some of our greatest challenges. They have ambitious goals and will deliver tangible results by 2030. EU Missions are a novelty of the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme for the years 2021-2027.
One of the relevant missions for researchers at our faculty is the Mission Cancer. It aims to improve the lives of more than 3 million people by 2030 through prevention, cure and for those affected by cancer including their families, to live longer and better.
The Mission Cancer calls 2022 are now open:
Improving and upscaling primary prevention of cancer through implementation research
Strengthening research capacities of Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures
Pragmatic clinical trials to optimise treatments for patients with refractory cancers
Towards the creation of a European Cancer Patient Digital Centre
Establishing of national cancer mission hubs and creation of network to support the Mission on Cancer
Please contact amra.grudic@uib.no if you are interested in one of the calls and would like to discuss.
We have previously written that the Faculty and the departments must cut costs. Now it’s The Research Council’s turn. In Khrono (khrono.no), Nobel Prize winners Moser and Moser warn for the effects of funding cuts. They are shocked and they are not alone. Khrono writes: In order to save NOK 842 million this year and next year, it is proposed, among other things, to reduce the allocations this year by 20 per cent, not to announce funds for ground breaking research (Fripro) next year and postpone the start of new Centers of excellence”. In addition, there are proposals to postpone the funding of research infrastructure.
How should we handle this as a department? I think it is important to apply for funding from the Research Council even if the “eye of the needle” is even narrower than before. Furthermore, we must look for alternative sources of funding. Here, Horizon Europe stands out as a great opportunity. While Norway cuts research funding, the EU will invest 95.5 billion Euros in Horizon Europe (2021-2027)!
The research department arranged an information day on 13 May where the application possibilities were explained, and they are many and organized in 3 pillars
Horizon Europe has a special focus on adaptation to climate change, cancer, climate-neutral smart cities, healthy seas and lakes, soil health and food
Here are opportunities to apply that we pursue. The Research Department at UiB and our research advisers are ready to help.
I’ll make Nike’s slogan my own: just do it!
Eystein Husebye
Vice Head, K2
Join us for breakfast on May 31 at 8:30 and hear 10-12 brief pitches from our startups and researchers!
May 31, 8:30-10:00, at Eitri, Haukelandsbakken 31.
Sign up here: https://www.eitrilab.no/events/eitri-demo-breakfast
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Hiwa Målen from the Division of Research and Innovation has developed a tool for navigating Horizon Europe and its calls. The focus is on Pillar 2, Global challenges and European industrial competitiveness, which includes Cluster Health.
Course on this Power BI tool on Tuesday 31 May at 9.00-11.30 at Eitri.
Registration Horizon Europe and Beyond – a tool to navigate the EU landscape (uib.no)
Questions? Please contact Amra Grudic-Feta: Amra.Grudic@uib.no
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Eitri Medical Incubator hosts startups and researchers striving to improve healthcare by developing better solutions to today’s problems. Join us for a breakfast on May 31 and hear from a few of them!
May 31, 8:30-10:00, at Eitri, Hauklenadsbakken 31.
Sign up here: https://www.eitrilab.no/events/eitri-demo-breakfast
Please, contact maija.slaidina@uib.no or torleif.lunde@uib.no if you have any questions.
Meet the 2022 Holberg Laureate, Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University) in conversation with Stephen Hilgartner (Cornell University). Jasanoff and Hilgartner are internationally leading scholars in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and have done extensive research on the social dimensions and politics of biomedicine and biotechnology (among other fields). Join us Friday June 10 at 09.30-10.15 in Store Auditorium, Haukeland University Hospital!