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Reminder about the mandatory fire safety course for all employees, UiB offers a digital course

https://nettkurs.tiv.no/no/feidelogin

and

BASIC FIRE SAFETY TRAINING

Understanding the correct use of fire extinguishers and implementing thorough safety practices is essential to protect yourself and others in case of emergencies.

Through practical training and guidance, we will instruct you on the proper use of fire extinguishers, evacuation techniques, and other important fire safety procedures. Our goal is to provide you with the confidence and competence to handle fire situations in a safe and effective manner.

Contents:

• Basic theory about different types of extinguishing equipment (outdoors).
• Extinguishing with fire extinguishers (outdoors).
• Alternative ways to extinguish small fires (outdoors).
• Smoke development in a smoke wagon (outdoors).

Link to the registration form (the course is available in both Norwegian and English): https://deltaker.tiv.no/no/participate/grunnleggende-brannvernopplaering-uib-2024-c2e062305f

This short information session aims to inform potential applicants about 3 new topics that have been added to the Cluster 1 ‘Health’ work programme of 2024.

Under the pillar 2 of Horizon Europe, Cluster 1 focuses on Health and aims to deliver on the following six destinations matching the Strategic Plan:

• Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society
• Living and working in a health-promoting environment
• Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
• Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health care
• Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
• Maintaining an innovative, sustainable and globally competitive health-related industry

https://research-innovation-community.ec.europa.eu/events/3clxegsRz1MMCZg2Onsstd/overview

We are pleased to invite you to the next Data café at the Faculty of 
Medicine on the 27th of June from 12:00 to 15:00 in the conference room 
at the 9th floor of the BBB 
(https://rom.app.uib.no/romInfo/q.php/408/9A110BP). We will enjoy a 
mingling lunch followed by two workshops:

1- David will give a new iteration of his workshop building large 
language models (LLMs) for text generation. This time we will try to 
make it more interactive and let you play with the code during the 
sessions, so it might be interested for some of you to take the workshop 
again.

2- Jakub will give an introductory workshop on data visualization with 
python. If you are tired of spending hours on Excel/GraphPad, want to 
learn how to create publication-grade plots automatically using free 
software, and at the same time learn some good practices on data 
visualization, this is for you.

The workshops are entry-level, there is no prior requirement and all are 
welcome independently of their seniority or expertise.

To help us plan the food and workshops, please register at the link below:
https://forms.gle/VmDL4oEsn5SBamSD6

Postdoctoral fellow Grethe Ueland has been awarded an Excellence Emerging Investigator Grant for the project “Autonomous cortisol secretion, a frequent cause of metabolic syndrome?” in strong Nordic competition. Those of us who know Grethe’s achievements over the past few years are not surprised by this recognition. The funding (10 million DKK) provides Grethe with the opportunity to integrate research and clinical endocrinology over the next 5 years.

Researcher Anette Bøe Wolff has also been awarded an Excellence Ascending Investigator Grant to study antibodies against cytokines, as a mechanism for autoimmunity, and thereby establish her own research group. The award is a result of Anette’s skill, perseverance, and enthusiasm in the study of autoimmunity and the role of the protein AIRE (autoimmune regulator), which led to a publication in Nature last fall on dental defects in APS-1 and celiac disease. This grant, too, amounts to 10 million DKK.

For the second time, the Research Day shall be an arena where researchers from the Faculty’s five institutes showcase their research, build good collaborations and new alliances. We want to get to know both the established groups and new and young researchers. This years event theme is knowledge valorization at the intersection of climate, environment, and health.

Preliminary program: Here