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The Welfare Committee reminds you of the concert today!
🎻 Aulaseriene: TrondheimSolistene + Ola Kvernberg 📍 University Auditorium in Bergen, Museplassen 3 🕖 Friday 5 September at 7:00 PM 🎶 The program offers: Buy tickets here! TrondheimSolistene & Ola Kvernberg — Aulaseriene
Information letter about the Vestlandslegen project
Information letters about the Vestlandslegen project will be published here regularly: Information letter about the Vestlandslegen project | Vestlandslegen | UiB
Training in W4 for content producers on research sites at UIB
Date: September 10, 2025Time: 09:00–10:30Location: Digital via TeamsCourse leader: Marthe Rekdalsbakken Are you responsible for content in research groups, projects or centers at UiB? Then this course could be for you! On September 10, a digital training course will be held in the use of W4 page templates for the research area. The course…
Projects for BMED320 (Methods in Biomedical Research)
The Department of Biomedicine invites K2 project leaders (PIs) to accept students for practical laboratory work through the course BMED322 (Methods in Biomedical Research). This is a mandatory course for new Master's students (MSc) that must be completed before starting the main project in the Master's degree. Students participate…
"Research Ethics Day" at UiB, October 3, 2025, Storsalen
The University of Bergen organizes an annual conference on research ethics. This year's event will take place on October 3rd in the Great Hall, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and has the theme "Research Ethics After AI". This year's conference will be held in English. The program for the day is available at…
Do you have a case for K2-news?
We want to share big and small things from everyday life at K2 – whether it's academic highlights, exciting projects, new publications, events, or pleasant glimpses from the working environment. Do you have something you would like to share with colleagues? Please send an email to Ingri.lunde@uib.no with:…
ELECTION 2025: UiB experts provide insight
How do we expose political rhetoric? What happens when the election campaign moves to TikTok and YouTube? How much do advance votes really mean? UiB's election experts provide answers. The expert group at UiB Researchers Ruben Mathisen, Yngve Flo, Jana Birke Belschner, Jens E. Kjeldsen, Erik Knudsen and…
Høst- og våraktiviteter ved Neuro-SysMed Forskerskole
Dear all, We are pleased to present the upcoming activities at the Neuro-SysMed Graduate School in Translational Neuroscience! Please note that the deadline for registration in Studentweb is September 1st for all courses in the fall semester, if you are a student and want ECTS credits. The fall semester 2025…
Forskerskolen CCBIO sine aktivteter framover
CCBIO901: Junior Scientist Symposium (JUSS) (3 studiepoeng) Symposiumdatoer: Dette seminarserien gir en flott mulighet til å knytte kontakt med andre unge forskere, få fagfellevurderinger og erfaring med muntlige presentasjoner og akademiske diskusjoner. Faglig ansvarlige/koordinatorer:Mari K. Halle (mari.halle@uib.no) og Vladan Milosevic…
Invitation to a networking meeting organized by the German Embassy
Dear alumnae and alumni, After the very successful start of the formation of an alumni network last April in Oslo, the German Embassy now wants to strengthen and further develop this network. It is therefore a great pleasure for us to be able to invite…
NOFE CONFERENCE 2025: Early bird DL 23rd of August
The 31st NOFE conference with the theme "Transforming epidemiology with AI" will take place on 29–30 October 2025 at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel in Bergen. The early bird registration deadline is already 23 August! Registration – NOFE An updated program is available here: Program – NOFE Young Investigator Day (YID) is being organized
Leader of the week
Please remember to register your vacation – Mia will send reminders. Thanks to Ingvild for stepping in, and welcome back to Mia!
K2nytt has a new design – thanks to Øyvind, Lene, and Ingri!
Department Day: September 8th, 11:30–16:00 at Bikuben.
Congratulations to Eystein Husebye – elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters!
Feel free to suggest honorary doctorate candidates – young, research-active individuals with strong international impact.
Have a great weekend!
Welcome to the faculty's teaching day!
The Pedagogical Academy at MED is pleased to invite all employees to a seminar! Date: 23.09.2025 Time: 12.00 – 15.30 Location: Armauer Hansens hus, auditorium. Diversity, artificial intelligence, better contact with students and practical learning are some of the topics we…
Biorender Group License at Klinisk institutt 2
Do you use or are planning on using Biorender in your research? To decrease costs a number of research groups and researchers have organized to purchase individual user licenses as a group.
GSU grant: Funding for Collaborative Projects and Academic forums – Autumn 2025
Global Societal Challenges (GSU) aims to encourage academic meeting places and collaboration across faculties and is announcing seed funding for this purpose. A minimum of two faculties must be involved in the collaboration on global societal challenges, and the activity must be related to the theme of inequality.The supported activities should aim to develop interdisciplinary research projects, and the projects should include concrete plans for applications to external funding sources and further research collaboration.
Welcome to our new colleague
Ida Wiig Sørensen holds a 20% position as Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine 2 (K2). She is a specialist in medical genetics and Head of Section at the Section for Clinical Genetics, Department of Medical Genetics at Haukeland University Hospital.
Important notice regarding registering vacation
Dear colleague, UiB HR is now requesting an overview of unregistered vacation days at the department, along with a plan for follow-up. This creates a significant amount of additional administrative work. Therefore, please register your vacation as soon as possible in the Self Service Portal. If you need to...
New WEB-pages
Today, we have launched new pages for the areas of Research (uib.no/research) in both Norwegian and English, as well as pages for research groups, research projects, and research centers. The pages have been launched...
The cooperation agency Helse Vest: Nominate candidates for the research and innovation awards
Before the summer is over, we would like to remind you that nominations are now open for this year’s awards for research and innovation, including young researchers. The awards will be presented as usual during the research conference in November. We hope you...
New FRIPRO awards to the Faculty of Medicine
The Research Council has provided support for two new research projects at the Faculty of Medicine through the FRIPRO scheme.
Strategic Plan 2025–2030: Shaping the Future of K2 Together
The leadership at K2 has now established the strategic framework for the institute’s development over the next five years. The 2025–2030 strategic plan provides a clear direction for how we will strengthen our position as a leading medical research and education institution. Research: We aim to enhance both the quality of our scientific output and the level of external funding...
UiB professor elected to chair scientific committee of major European global health organization
Professor Harleen Grewal will lead the scientific committee of the EU’s EDCTP3 Global Health Joint Undertaking. Read rest of the story here.
Researcher interested in women's health?
Driv Center for Women’s Health Research invites you to the National Conference on Women’s Health Research in the University Auditorium in Bergen.. The conference brings together researchers from all over the country and offers a strong academic program, which is updated on the website...
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