Monthly Archives: September 2022

Editorial

Personal development interviews
There is still time for the annual personal development interviews. These are part of targeted management and employee development. Therefore, they are annual, systematic and mutually prepared personal conversations between an employee and their immediate superior. All employees who have a main position at UiB must have staff meetings. This also includes fellows. For employees with 20% positions, the manager can agree with the employee that it is not necessary.

New from last year is that it is not enough that the personal development interviews are offered – they must also be carried out. These interviews are an important arena for clarifying expectations for performance, giving mutual feedback and insight into each other’s working situation and addressing the working environment and conditions at the workplace. The conversation must be linked to K2’s strategic plans and be a real and results-oriented management tool to achieve set goals.

Elements related to life phase can be taken up as a theme. The conversation will also be used to uncover skills needs, change and development. The content of the employee interview must be focused on conditions that the manager and employee can do something about.

It is important to communicate what you want to achieve in the personal development interview and arrange for the confidentiality needed for the interview to have added value for both parties. This can be a gradual process that can take some time.

For foreign employees, it is important to pay attention to their need to understand overall strategies and goals for the organization, the importance of a good and inclusive working environment and the individual’s opportunities to contribute to the community. Current topics can also be their social network, trust vis-a-vis manager and colleagues, experience of belonging and in some cases facilitation and integration also outside the workplace.

As a natural part of the performance assessment and the clarification of expectations, the contractual conversation about pay matters is included as part of the personal development interview. It is therefore important to remember that we have established systems for salary negotiations. As you know, salary negotiations are ongoing this autumn.

As Head of Department, I am responsible for ensuring that all employees carry out annual personal development interviews and am responsible for the results of the interviews being included in K2’s plans and budget. It is not possible to carry out this for all K2’s employees, so carrying out the conversations is delegated. I have staff meetings with the research group leaders, while they in turn have responsibility for their group members. When it comes to administrative staff, head of administration Maria Holmaas is responsible.

Most of the time, I think time goes terribly fast in the autumn, and suddenly it’s Christmas. It is therefore advisable to start the employee interviews as soon as possible. Good luck!

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19.-25.september arrangeres Innovasjonsuken OPP. Over 40 arrangementer er tilgjengelig i arrangementskalenderen. En glimrende arena for studenter, gründere, investorer og næringslivet for møtes for nettverksbygging, kompetansedeling og framsnakking.

Ta en titt på programmet og meld deg allerede nå: www.innovasjonsukenopp.no/program

Her er en liten smakebit på noe av det du kan OPPleve:

Gratis OPP-fest i Marinehallen – Åpningsfesten til Innovasjonsuken OPP
Helseinkubatoren, Eitri arrangerer Datathon og seminar verdien av norsk helsedata
Innovasjon Norge, Connect Vest og PwC arrangerer åpningsarrangementene «OPPnå innovasjonskraft – innovasjon som verktøy for å bli bærekraftig» og «Oppnå suksess med Corporate/startup partnerskap»
NF&TA og Bergen offentlige bibliotek arrangerer «Tech og tekstil – hvordan ser bærekraftig tekstilindustri ut?»
Sopra Steria og NHH arrangerer: «Slik lykkes etablerte selskaper med å lansere nye løsninger»
AFF arrangerer «Start Smart – om hvordan team jobber godt mot felles mål»
Kunnskapsparken Vestland og Innovasjon Norge arrangerer: Kapitaldagen i Førde
Buzzfond, Brak, Bergen kommune, Design Region Bergen og Simonsen Vogt Wiig arrangerer: «Musikk fra Vestland til verden»
SRF arrangerer Byråbayer med årets høydepunkt fra Cannes Lions
VIS, NCE Finance Innovation og Connect Vest arrangerer Demo Day Vestland
Social Impact Lab lanserer Dypdykk for innovasjonsprogrammet, Impact Challenge
Netlife og TRY har seminar om «Hva er godt design og god kommunikasjon?»
GC Rieber arrangerer «Innovation Challenge – innovasjonskultur på tvers av selskaper»
DNB NXT arrangeres med tema: Redefinding Growth
StormGeo, Knowit og Sjømat Norge arrangerer “Hav, tech og hOPP – Fire havnære digitale innovasjonsprosjekter”
Sogn Næring og Kunnskapsparken Vestland arrangerer Innovasjonsdagen i Sogn
Start Bergen arrangerer, hackethon – Bergen Brainstorm

Deadline for registration of rest holidays 2022 is 1st of October

All employees at UiB must register holidays in the self-service-portal.

The holidays must be registered in the portal for approval, marked in the comment field that is has been approved by nearest leader.

If you are uncertain of the dates, register anyway and eventually change afterwards.

It is very important that everybody register their holidays for the whole year. This is because you should plan and take the holidays you have earned within the year, and because it is important that the holiday account for UiB shows correct figures.

The institute is followed up and must report this monthly to the Faculty.

Link and guidance to the self-service-portal: Selvbetjeningsportalen | Ansattsider | UiB

Note that you must select the buttom ‘Fraværssøknader’ and ‘Opprett søknad’

If you need further guidance, please contact me.

Mia Holmaas
Head of Administration

Scientific Computing Training events in autumn 2022

Hi,

The scientific computing group at UiB IT department is collaborating nationally and internationally to provide training on practical scientific computing related topics.

These are free online courses and target students, researchers, and employees of any background who are eager to learn basic scientific computing skills or improve their existing knowledge on the topic.

This autumn we are collaborating three courses:

  1. CodeRefinerey Online Workshop: September 20-22 and 27-29. Please see the course page for more details https://coderefinery.github.io/2022-09-20-workshop/
  2. NRIS HPC On-boarding: October 18-20. Please see the course page for more details https://documentation.sigma2.no/training/events/2022-10-hpc-on-boarding.html
  3. NRIS Best Practices on HPC : November 1-2. Please see the course page for more details  https://documentation.sigma2.no/training/events/2022-11-best-practices-on-NRIS-clusters.html

Please advertise these courses at your department to people who are interested in attending these courses. If you have any question kindly reply to this email.

Thank you!

Best Regards,
Dhanya Pushpadas 

Course: Improve Your Academic Writing and Presentation Skills in English

Mastering academic English can be as important as mastering your discipline itself. This is a course for PhD candidates and Postdoctoral fellows at the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Psychology who wants to improve their academic writing and presentation skills in English. There will be courses targeting other Faculties later this autumn.

Target group

PhD candidates and Postdoctoral fellows who want to improve their academic writing and presentation skills in English.
This course is especially targeting the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Psychology.

Application deadline

Application deadline is at 3 pm the 3rd of October 2022.

More information and Registration Improve Your Academic Writing and Presentation Skills in English | UiB Ferd karrieresenter for yngre forskere | UiB

Nordic AI Meet and Research School Annual Conference

For PhD candidates across Norway working on AI linked topics, Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium (NORA) is planning two important activities in November.

  1. Nordic AI Meet, 14-15 November :https://nordicaimeet.com/ to bring a wide range of expertise in form of keynotes, select presentations & posters from PhD students across Nordics apart from Industry engagement and other fun activities.
  2. Research School Annual Conference, 16 November :https://www.nora.ai/research-school/symposium.html. The research school conference is more like an unconference as it will have components that foster tighter collaboration among PhD students and also enable them to meet each other face to face. There will be a mingling welcome dinner for the conference on 15thNovember in Kristiania University College Campus in Oslo Center. Seats are limited for the 16 November event. Registration is free but it will be on first come first serve basis.

Course in data protection and -security

UiB handles large amounts of personal data and information, both in research and administration. You as an employee need to know how personal data is handled and how you can maintain data security, both for yourself as a person and for UiB.

All our employees complete a basic course in data protection and data security. The course consists of short modules, each of which takes a few minutes to complete.

This e-mail is being sent to you because you have not completed the course. We hope you will find the time to do this!

The link below will take you to the course on Mitt UiB:
Click here to start the course

Editorial

New opportunities in Horizon Europe

While we wait for feedback from the Research Council on the applications sent this spring, it might be an idea to study the draft of the calls under the area ​​Health in Horizon Europe. There are many calls that are relevant to K2’s researchers. The various so-called destinations in the program are:

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 and reducing disease burden

You will find calls that suit your area of ​​research. Several announcements under Destination 1 are aimed at personalized medicine. Under destination 5, it is possible to apply for projects that integrate artificial intelligence and health, including the development of new tools both for healthcare personnel and patients for the prevention and treatment of diseases.

The call has not yet been published, but you can access the draft by contacting our research advisor Susanna Pakkasmaa. She and the Research Department can be helpful with advice and guidance for those who are interested. Susanne is otherwise interested in meeting the institute’s research group leaders to get acquainted with the ongoing research.

Consider applying for EU funds both as a partner and coordinator

Good luck with your future applications

Eystein Husebye
Vice head of institute

Career Day for all PhD candidates and postdocs at The Faculty of Medicine – Wednesday October 19th

Dear all

Welcome to the career day for all PhD candidates at the Faculty of Medicine! It will take place on October 19th from 09.30 to 16.00 in auditorium 1, in the BB building at Haukeland. In addition to internal and external presenters, some of our earlier PhD candidates will update us on what they have done after graduating. Furthermore, there will be held several relevant workshops at the end of the day. The career day will be held in English.

Participation is free, and coffee and lunch will be served. There will be good opportunities for mingling with your fellow candidates.

See our detailed program here.

Registration for the career day here. Deadline October 12th.

Hope to see you there!

Regards,

The PhD coordinator team

Horizon Europe courses

In cooperation with the Research Council of Norway, Europa Media is organising practical training courses on the development and management of the Horizon Europe programme. All courses are only open for Norwegian organisations, and completely free to attend. See all courses at Forskningsrådets arrangementer (forskningsradet.no)

Open Access – step-by-step

Governments, institutions, and funders expect researchers to make their research openly available. What is open access, why should you make your research publications openly available and what services and support is available at UiB?

The course is suited for both researchers and research administration, and will be held in English.

By the end of the course participants will have a better understanding of:

  • the background and aims of open access
  • different types of open access (green and gold) and how to achieve open access.
  • guidelines and requirements from UiB, government and funders.
  • services at UiB to support open access and open access publishing.

https://www.uib.no/en/ub/155416/open-access-publishing-step-step

Workshop on “Strengthening research careers”

The European Commission has the pleasure to invite you to the online workshop on “Strengthening research careers: a focus on competences, balanced talent circulation and intersectoral mobility” that will take place on the 12th of September from 09:30 to 12:30 and from 13:30 to 16:00.

This workshop will present the main findings and outcomes from the study ‘Knowledge Ecosystem in the new ERA’ on the competence framework for researchers (morning session, including the potential uses and applications of the framework) and on balanced talent circulation (afternoon session, including issues of geographical brain drain and intersectoral mobility). Illustrations of cases will be presented for each of the topics, and pathways for further action will be discussed.

The detailed programme is attached. The workshop is organised in two sessions: morning and afternoon. Participants can attend either one of the sessions, or both, by registering via the link below.

Register her

More information here