Professor, PhD, professor, lecturer and associate professor. What do the educators think about the quality of education at Norwegian Universities and colleges?

The last four years NOKUT have asked students give their opinion about the quality of the program they have started. Now we turn to them standing in front of students. The educators.

• How do you assess the students’ efforts?
• Their learning outcomes?
• How much time do you spend on the teaching?
• And what does this actually mean to the students’ level of knowledge?

For breakfast will among others head for UHR Vidar L Haanes leader in NAR Peter Aaslestad, NSO leader Marianne Andenæs and NOKUT director Terje Morland Panel conversation.

We also collect educators to the conversation. Professor Anne C. Elster (Department of Computer and Information Science, NTNU), Professor Petter Kongsgården (Department of Education, University College Southeast Norway) and Associate Anniken Haugelund (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo).

Time: 08:00-09:30 AM (breakfast is served from 07:30 AM)
Place: Frokostkjelleren, Karl Johans gate 47, Oslo

Can’t attend? You can follow the breakfast Meeting live from here

Several of the candidates admitted to the PhD program at MOF is working on projects that require ethical approvals (REK approval or other authorizations). However, there is currently very limited opportunities for faculty to follow up such ethical approvals before the project’s start.

Read more here.

The postdoc-committee at the Centre for Immune Regulation would like to invite you to the seminar “Transition from academia to industry”.  The invited speakers have either performed a successful transfer from academia to industry or are involved in the transition process, and we are very grateful they have accepted to share their experiences with us. See the program below, or go to the CIR website.

All welcome!

Seminar: “Transition from academia to industry”.

Time and place: Thursday, January 19 2017, 12:00  – 15:00,  Rikshospitalet B: Grønt Aud 1. Add to calendar

12.00-12.05 – Welcome

12.05-12.35 – Øystein Rekdal, CSO, Lytix Biopharma, Oslo. Title: “From bench to bedside with a first in class oncolytic peptide”.

12.35-13.05 – Geir Åge Løset, CSO, Nextera, Oslo. Title: “Basic research and industrial translation – the ultimate blend”.

-Break with refreshments-

13.20-13.50 – Agnete Fredriksen, CSO, Vaccibody. Title: “From PhD to CSO in Clinical stage Biotech Company- my experience from Vaccibody”.

13.50-14.20 – André Borka, Head hunter, Borka Consulting. Title: “(Work)Life after PhD within the pharmaceutical industry, medical technical equipment and life science. Advice on LinkedIn, CVs and job applications”.

14.20-14.50 – Ana Kucera, Regional Sales Manager Carl Zeiss AS. Title: “From PhD to industry: the pros and cons and the process behind”.

Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Bergen has the pleasure of inviting you to the opening seminar for the newly esablished Center for Nutrition on Januray 30th 2017 at 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM in store auditorium (4601), sentralblokken Haukeland Universitetssjukehus.

Center for nutrition will Connect Research Groups and researchers related to nutrition in Western Norway. The center will have Research as their main task and will be a support for education and outreach.

Opening seminar will consist of welcome from UiB Central, short talks With appropiate nutrition-oriented research, mingling and lunch. Save the date January 30th 2017. Detailed program and registration will be sent out in early January.

Reference is made to the announcement of prequalification round of Applications is March 15th 2017 http://bfstiftelse.no/soknad/

In accordance with the announcement it is a prerequisite that the faculty and the department gives its recommendation to the Application.

For more information, click here.

NSH opens conference year in 2017 with a consultation meeting on Kvinnsland report, which was submitted to Minister Bent Høie early December.
The following day we invite to our annual management conference where we ia is visited by Spanish Ribera Salud and the Health Director prize is awarded to this year’s health leader.

EARLY BIRD PRICES on the Leadership Conference of the year – sign up today!

We have many exciting topic on the agenda in 2017 – see here
NSH thank conference participants and partners for the past year and we wish you all a Merry Christmas!

Date: 13 March – 17. March 2017
Arranged by: Center for the study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen

All PhD-candidates and postdocs are eligible to apply.

For more information and registration, click here.

Time: March 14th and 15th 2017
Place: Trondheim, Scandic Solsiden

National Network for Health Services Research – – http://helsetjenesteforskning.org/- organizing the conference primarily a workshop for researchers in this Field.

The theme is:

Management Challenges in health care, through political science professor Karsten Vrangbæk at the University of Copenhagen, and

Variation in consumption of health care, the professor of medicine Barthold Vonen director at SKDE, Helse Nord.

It is possible to present own projects to colleagues at the conference. We want broad participation of researchers and scholars from universities, health authorities, schools. It is thematically open in the area of health services research, and open to all professions.

Abstract deadline: postponed until 15 January 2017. Abstract of max. 300 words sent to:paal.martinussen@svt.ntnu.no

Links to program and registration:

https://www.ntnu.no/trykk/publikasjoner/Helsetjenesteforskning/.ui

http://www.ntnu.no/helse/konferanse2017

University of Bergen are in Peder Sather consortium along with several other Norwegian institutions. This is an arrangement where Norwegian research community can get financial support to cooperation with researchers at UC-Berkeley.

The Peder Sather funds for 2016 are now announced. Information and application forms can be found  here

Invitation to consultation – Proposed changes to the Specialized Health Services Act § 4-1 (approval of establishments and services within specialist)

The letter can be found here and the notes can be found here.

Deadline is March 13, 2017.

BOA team is the University’s central administrative support for external financing. BOA team would like to inform about current H2020 deadlines for 2017.

For more information, click here.

NB! For those registrating their interest via issue-tracker. You must also inform the Department (Per Bakke) that you are planning to apply.

Please contact if any questions.