Draft topic texts for IHI call 11
Diabetes, brain disorders, heart disease and medicines safety are among the topics slated for inclusion in the next IHI call for proposals.
23-30 June
Innovative Health Initiative call 11
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Monthly Archives: April 2025
ERC Webinar
The PNO ERC Excellence Group within PNO is organising two informative webinars about ERC application procedures for individual research grants, our best practices and our services to inform potential ERC candidates in the run-up to the deadlines in summer/autumn 2025.
In these webinars you will learn:
- The requirements for ERC Starting, Consolidator, Advanced or Synergy Grants applications.
- Tips and tricks on how to write a winning ERC proposal
- Best practice example from a LS/PE panel
ERC Webinar – Life Sciences
Thursday, May 15th 2025 from 10:00- 10:45 CEST
https://www.arttic-innovation.de/en/join-our-erc-webinar/
Novo Nordisk Foundation expands Challenge Programme outside of Denmark
The Novo Nordisk Foundation has announced the latest edition of its annual Challenge Programme, where for the first time it is inviting researchers from outside Denmark to lead collaborations applying for grants to study four major themes.
With themes changing every year, the Challenge Programme provides substantial, long-term funding to enable scientific depth and focus and to facilitate synergy between the research partners. The four themes for the 2026 edition are:
- Harnessing biology for climate-resilient and healthy soils
- Unravelling the pathways of human invasive fungal diseases
- Modelling human cardiometabolic disease
- Biological systems under non-equilibrium conditions
The Challenge Programme calls for applications in open competition. Expressions of interest are invited by 8 October 2025, with the final awards announcement expected in May 2026.
A webinar covering the Challenge Programme and theme will be held on 12 June 2025.
Generation – an aging festival
Generation – an aging festival May 23, 2025,
Litteraturhuset in Bergen We invite both young and old to join the aging festival! The theme in 2025 is boys and men’s aging: How do boys and men age?
Why are most men committing suicide? How can we realize men’s care resources in the face of a shaky welfare state?
https://generasjonsfestivalen.no/
First aid course – Red Cross (Røde Kors)
The course lasts for 3 hours and combines theoretical instruction with practical exercises.
Each lesson lasts approximately 45 minutes, with a 15-minute break.
You will learn basic life-saving first aid.
The course and course materials follow recognized national guidelines.
- May 8, 2025 – 08:30–11:30
- Nygårdsgaten 5, Room 1E301, Sydneshaugen
You can register here:
- https://www.uib.no/foransatte/175766/f%C3%B8rstehjelpskurs-r%C3%B8dekors
- Registration deadline: 02.05.2025 – 16.00
Leader of the week
An important part of research education is that PhD candidates and post-docs build networks, challenge themselves through presentations of their own research, and critically evaluate others’ research. I take this opportunity to highlight the two research schools at K2, which serve as important platforms for this. We have the Postgraduate School of Clinical Medical Research and the Bergen Research School in Inflammation (BRSI). Both hold regular meetings where candidates present their data and analyses, and they also organize courses. Both the courses and seminar series provide credits in the PhD program.
BRSI is organized by the Broegelmann Research Lab. The research school offers courses in immunological subjects tailored to doctoral candidates.
The Research School for Clinical Medicine is a collaboration between K1, K2, and Haukeland University Hospital. If you are a PhD/postdoc at K2 and do not regularly receive emails about their courses and seminars, you can contact adrianna.jebrzycka@uib.no to join. The school also hosts an annual poster/presentation competition for posters presented at conferences in the preceding year.
| Clinical Medicine Research | BRSI |
| FSKLI901 – Seminar in clinical and translational medicine (1ECT) | HUIMM320 – Basic Immunology (5 ECTS) |
| GCP901 – Good clinical practice (ICH-GCP) for PhD candidates (1ECTS) | HUIMM901 – Project seminars in Immunology (3 ECTS) |
| RMED901 – Data science with R for medical researchers (2ECTS) | HUIMM902 – Journal club and watch (3 ECTS) |
| HUIMM306A/906A – Molecular and cellular methods in immunology (8 ECTS) | |
| HUIMM905 – Advanced Immunology course, variable theme (3 ECTS) | |
| HUIMM307 – Basic course in Flow Cytometry (5 ECTS) |
Additionally, the Faculty of Medicine is a partner in several national research schools that may be relevant to the research topics at K2. These schools offer excellent opportunities for courses and broader networking both in Norway and internationally.
- EPINOR – National Research School in population based epidemiology (liten akivitet)
- NORHEART – Norwegian PhD School of Heart Disease
- NORA Norwegian AI Research School
- Digital Life Norway Research School
- MiMa: Microbiology matters — novel approaches to takle future health challenges (starting up this year)
- Norwegian Research School in Global Health for Sustainable Futures (starting up this year)
(Norsk) UiB-Tjenesteutvikling Pop-ups 2025: Alrek Helseklynge
UiB-Service Development Pop-ups 2025: Alrek Health Cluster
In April and May, UiB-Service Development invites you to a series of pop-up workshops on campus.
20.05.2025 – 09.00–11.30 Alrek health cluster
Pop-up workshops are short, practical courses where you learn methodologies that will improve the way you work and collaborate with others. In this series, there are six different workshops offered: About keys to collaboration, about limitations as an innovative driving force, about testing and experimentation, about facilitation and meeting management, about continuous improvement work in practice and an introductory course to service development. The workshops last 45-60 minutes each and are held at three different locations at UiB. The workshops are open to all employees.
More information and registration https://www.uib.no/tjenesteutvikling/177332/pop-ups-2025-alrek-helseklynge-20mai
Alrek Student Conference 2025
4 June 2025
09:00 – 15:00
Midgard, Årstadveien 17, Alrek helseklynge
In 2025, we are celebrating the five-year anniversary of the Student Conference! We invite students to submit abstracts to present their bachelor’s and master’s theses related to health in a broad sense.
You can register for the conference here!
Registration deadline: May 28 at 11:59 PM.
Are you a student considering presenting your project plan or findings from your master? The call for abstracts is now open, and you can submit your abstract for the Alrek Student Conference here.
Submission deadline: May 12 at 11:59 PM.
https://alrekhelseklynge.no/arrangementer/alrek-studentkonferanse-2025-2/
May week in Bergen filled with health innovation events!
Several health innovation events are taking place in Bergen between May 19th and 22nd.
• Monday May 19th to Tuesday May 20th: DigitalHealth25 – Alrek
• Tuesday May 20th – Wednesday May 21st: LSX Nordic Congress is the leading partnering, strategy, and investment event serving the Nordic and Baltic region, with qualified 1:1 partnering at its core.
• Wednesday 21 May – Thursday 23 May: National Meeting of the Medical Technological Association: Medical Technological Association
• Wednesday 22 May: Event for “International Clinical Studies Day” at Haukeland University Hospital organized by NorCRIN – International Day for Clinical Studies 2025 – NorCRIN
• Wednesday 22 May: PROM Conference 2025
https://alrekhelseklynge.no/nyheter/en-uke-fyll-med-helseinnovasjonsarrangementer/
Roadmap for Research Infrastructure – Health
Roadmap for Research Infrastru4 June 2:00–3:00 PM
Before we announce new funding under the National Research Infrastructure Initiative, we are updating the roadmap, which serves as a guide for applicants. The next announcement is planned for November 2025.
We invite you to a feedback meeting for the thematic area of health in part 2 of the roadmap. We would like feedback on whether we have clearly described the need for research infrastructure in this field, or whether there are important gaps that we have not identified.
The meeting starts with a short introduction. Afterwards, participants will have the opportunity to make short, oral contributions (3-5 min) about the roadmap.
If you do not get what you want during the meeting, you can send written contributions in the chat (max. 2 pages). We encourage institutions to coordinate their contributions.
The Portfolio Board for the Research System will adopt the updated roadmap at its meeting on September 17, 2025.
Preparedness for health crises: a multidisciplinary approach
The Pandemic Center at the University of Bergen, in collaboration with NOVA University Lisboa, Bielefeld University, and Erasmus University Rotterdam, is excited to announce an upcoming online course with mobility option titled Preparedness for Health Crises: A Multidisciplinary Approach in fall 2025
This course will draw on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and other current crises to teach preparedness for future health threats. It is accessible to students from all backgrounds, study fields, and cycles (elective, master, and PhD students).
When? September-October 2025, culminating in a one-week session in Bergen from October 27th to 31st
When family inheritance is a disease
May 7, 2025
Location: Litteraturhuset in Bergen – Bergen
Time: 08.30-09.15
With a genetic test, you can get information about hereditary characteristics and disease risks. Such tests are important for diagnosing and treating disease. At the same time, the use of genetic tests raises several questions and difficult issues. How are genetic tests used in Norwegian hospitals today? What genetic information should be shared? And who should have the right to access information about hereditary diseases in their family?
Senior consultant Ida Wiig Sørensen from the Department of Medical Genetics at Haukeland University Hospital and member of the Biotechnology Council, discusses these questions in an exciting lecture at Litteraturhuset in Bergen.
Leader of the week
Dear everyone,
I begin the editorial with two good news:
K2 has got its first merited teacher! Congratulations to Aase Raddum, who has been awarded the status of merited teacher.
Also this week, Simona Chera was awarded a NFR Fripro project for groundbreaking research, congratulations!
The year can continue like this 😊
Finally, I would like to remind you of the FAMU survey that has a response deadline on Sunday (April 13th). Working environment surveys are an important part of the university’s systematic work on health, safety and the environment (HSE). It is therefore important that as many people as possible respond to the survey!
It is important to clarify that the questionnaire is anonymous, the answers cannot be traced back to the individual.
This is how anonymity is safeguarded even with floor-by-floor divisions at K2:
- No managers have access to raw data
- Common template for all reports
- No personal information in the reports
- No link between reply and email address
- No reports for groups with fewer than five responses
When the survey has been completed, you will be invited to participate in the follow-up work aimed at implementing measures where needed. It is important to emphasise that the results are presented in such a way that no individual can be recognised. No managers or others at UiB will have access to the individual’s answers. The data material is incorporated into a permanent database at NTNU This makes it possible for the faculty to compare results over time (you can read about ARK here: www.ntnu.no/ark).
Have a great weekend and happy Easter!
Silke
Day of Immunology 26.april 2025 Auditorium Vilvite
This year’s Day of Immunology is held simultaneously in Oslo and Bergen, and will also be streamed.
The Day of Immunology will be organized on Saturday April 26. The theme of this year’s day of immunology is “The brain under attack! – When the immune system becomes our own enemy”. The event will be held in Norwegian.
Date and time: April 26, 11:00-13:00
Bergen: Auditorium, Vilvite, Thormøhlens Gate 51 (in Oslo: Wergeland salen, Litteraturhuset,
Wergelandsveien 29)
Streaming: https://vimeo.com/event/4965153
The event is free of charge and open for everybody interested!
Call for proposals for research on pancreatic cancer
A new donation account has been set up for this purpose at the Cancer Clinic, HUS.
The application deadline for allocations in 2025 is 15 May.
Further information can be found at
Forsking og fagutvikling – Helse Bergen HF
Bridging Nordic Science: NordForsk 20 Years
18/06/2025
10:00 – 17:00
Malmö, Sweden
Welcome to the NordForsk anniversary conference, where we aim to strengthen Nordic research co-operation by addressing key scientific and societal challenges.
What are the key benefits of Nordic research co-operation across academic disciplines, and how can we collaborate to enhance its excellence and impact in the future?
Join us for a day full of inspiring and insightful talks and discussions, and networking with Nordic colleagues, to celebrate 20 years of Nordic research co-operation
https://www.nordforsk.org/20-years
