The Utrecht Network Young Researcher’s Grant aims to enhance support for students and staff, as well as promote increased mobility among the Network’s institutions.

Within the framework of the Young Researcher’s Grant, up to 20 scholarships of €1,200 each will be offered for short-term mobility. Priority will be given to researchers at the PhD level, particularly those who may not be eligible for other scholarship programmes such as ERASMUS+.

This grant is intended for self-organized mobility at one of the Utrecht Network partner universities. Please refer to the members section for an overview of all member institutions. Note that the host institution cannot be in the same country as the institution in which students are enrolled.

While the grant is not limited to thesis research at the master’s or PhD level, students are allowed to take courses as well. However, priority will be given to ‘research-only’ students.

As the study/research period, including the application, is self-organized, students are expected to explore possible research areas at the university to which they apply and find a supervisor by themselves. While the International Relations Office may offer assistance in finding a supervisor, however it is considered a part of the student’s project and is expected to be carried out by the student.

Prerequisites:

Minimum length of stay 4 weeks (mobility is not restricted to semesters, but may also take place during the holidays)

https://utrecht-network.org/activities/young-researchers-grant/

Send the application scheme and attachments to  kristin.skogedal@uib.no latest 20 February 2025

Grants for Health and Care Services are part of the grant scheme through the tripartite industry program for competence development. The grant in this announcement will cover the development and ongoing implementation of competence enhancement offers from 2025 to November 2027.

Application deadline: March 19, 2025, at 3:00 PM

https://hkdir.no/utlysninger-og-tilskudd/tilskot-til-kompetanseutvikling-i-helse-og-omsorgstenestene-for-2025-2027

Applicant Seminar for Grants in the Industry Program – Health and Care Services

Date and Time: January 23, 2025, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

https://hkdir.no/arrangementer/sokarseminar-for-tilskot-i-bransjeprogram-helse-og-omsorgstenestene

The Innovation and eHealth Group will create a clear map showing who can help you move forward with an idea!

The goal is to make resources easily accessible, strengthen collaboration across sectors and with the emerging business community, and contribute to health innovations that provide value for residents, healthcare professionals, academia, and businesses.

Join us for Alreklunsj on Wednesday, February 5th from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM in the cafeteria, Årstadveien 17, where we will showcase the innovation map and encourage cluster partners to promote it within their organizations and student communities.

https://alrekhelseklynge.no/arrangementer/faglunsj-lansering-av-innovasjonskartet/

The library offers the following courses: The courses are mainly for employees and PhD candidates at the Faculty of Medicine and for employees at Helse Bergen. Courses for students are normally given as a part of their study program. If that isn’t the case, they can attend these courses as well. The courses are free of charge, but registration is necessary for our planning. The courses are held either physically at the library or online via Zoom.

• Searching in PubMed and Embase
• Introduction to Endnote
• Introduction to Zotero
• Introduction to systematic reviews
• Literature studies for Bachelor and Master students (in Norwegian)

Date and time, registration and more information can be found on the library’s web pages:

Courses in English: https://www.uib.no/en/ub/128609/courses-and-guidance#courses-requiring-registration

Overview of all courses (Norwegian or English): https://www.uib.no/ub/126018/kurs-og-veiledning#kurs-med-p-melding

Short descriptions:

• Searching in PubMed and Embase: Everyone can use PubMed! However, with some extra knowledge you may search more efficiently. In the course we demonstrate the use of subject headings MeSH, and the use of filters for quick limiting to clinical queries (like diagnostic studies, or intervention studies). Embase is another important medical database which covers several different journals than PubMed/Medline. Therefore, Embase is a valuable supplement to PubMed, if you want to get a better overview over the literature within your field.
• Introduction to EndNote: EndNote is a tool for managing references. The course covers how to build your own EndNote library, how to use references from EndNote in the writing process with Word, formatting the text and generating literature lists.. Other functionalities like manually adding references, grouping, removing duplicates, and importing full text will also be covered.
• Introduction to Zotero: This introductory course to Zotero should allow you to collect references by a variety of means and generate citations as well as reference lists. It covers: make a collection, import references from medical databases, manual input and to use the software for citation in a word processor (WORD or Google Docs).
• Introduction to systematic reviews: In this course we inform about common types of reviews, and the role of the library in the different phases of the work with a systematic review. We give an  overview over the process of doing a systematic review: write a protocol, prepare the searches, data management, quality appraisal, and guidelines for reporting.
• Literature studies for Bachelor and Master students (in Norwegian): This course is for students who chose literature study as their bachelor- or master thesis, and have not yet be offered a course as part of their study program. We teach about the process in a literature study. The course covers preparational work before literature searching, how to manage and work with the search results, and how to document the methods used.

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Library of Medicine, BBB

BCEPS is proud to announce a free 2-week online course on priority setting in health, led by Kjell Arne Johansson and featuring a range of international expert lecturers on the topic!

The participants will learn the basic methods for priority setting in health, with an emphasis on how to evaluate equity in access to health services and fairness in distributions of health outcomes, and to integrate tools for equity concerns and health maximization.

The course is divided into two parts:

Part 1: Will cover theoretical concepts of UHC, ethics, equity and fairness as well as health maximization, and how they are applied in global and national health care priority settings.

Part 2: Will cover hands-on exercises on burden of disease, cost-effectiveness, and use of FairChoices DCP Analytic Tool

https://www4.uib.no/en/courses/bceps300

Researchers who are co-authors of scientific publications in 2024 are responsible for checking that their publications are registered in Christin. Full text of the articles must also be uploaded. This should be done as soon as possible, the deadline is set to 31.01.25.

Link to Christin

Please contact us if anything is unclear, we are happy to help.

Irene and  Siv Lise