Dear PhD Supervisor,

The Faculty of Medicine invites you to a very popular course held by Dr. Gitte Wichmann-Hansen.

Professor Gitte Wichmann-Hansen holds a Master’s in Pedagogy and a PhD in Educational Research. With over 20 years of experience in higher education teaching development.

The course will be focused on the delicate balance in supervision between promoting students’ autonomy and ensuring high-quality, timely completion of their work. Based on her research, she has developed numerous strategies and advice for supervisors on maintaining productive academic dialogue, ensuring project progress, and building constructive relationships with candidates.

Teaching Form: The course includes interactive group work, exercises, plenary discussions, and lectures. Participants are encouraged to prepare a case study on supervision challenges to tailor the course to their needs.

Date: February 19-20

Location: Scandic City, Bergen

Please note that registration for this course is binding. As we have an external course instructor, a fee will be charged to your affiliated department if you register but do not attend.

Additionally, there are limited seats available (20 participants), so please ensure you register promptly.

Preparation: Delegates will receive “homework” to complete in advance of the course.

Course Certificate: Participants will receive a certificate upon completion.

Language: The course is offered in English or Norwegian/Danish if possible.

Contact: For practical questions, email Havjin Jacob at Havjin.Jacob@uib.no.

Sign up here!

The Climate and Energy Transition focus area is now offering travel grants to master’s and PhD students and postdocs working on topics related to climate and/or energy transition.

There are two calls for applications:

1. Travel grants for conferences and similar events.
2. Travel grants for fieldwork and short research stays.

The call texts are available in both Norwegian and English. The Norwegian text is the official version.

We kindly ask you to share this information within your networks.

Link 1 

Link 2

Link 3

Application deadline is February 21 at 12:00.

Best regards,

Kristine Spildo and Kristin Guldbrandsen Frøysa

Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) Calls 9 and 10 are now open, with deadlines in late April. Check the IHI website for information, including recorded information sessions:

https://www.ihi.europa.eu/

Dear all

We are continuing the success from earlier years, a seminar in Scientific Writing May 20-21, 2025, in the extended CCBIO/Harvard INTPART collaboration. Registration deadline is February 1.

Learn how to:

• Organize ideas, results and messages in a scientific paper
• Improve titles and abstracts
• Present a clear problem statement
• Use punctuation, grammar and numbering in a text
• Write an informative and convincing cover letter

The course will also present and discuss what is good research communication.

Even with the introduction of AI, there is something to learn for all of us! We strongly encourage students at all levels, including postdocs, to prioritize this and attend! Senior staff are also very welcome. The seminar is also open to national and Nordic visitors.

Lecturers:

• Christine Møller, an experienced lecturer in medical and scientific writing with many years of experience as assistant editor of APMIS (Acta Pathologica Microbiologica et Immunologica Scandinavica).
• Randy Watnick, assistant professor at the Vascular Biology Program, Harvard Medical School.
• Media Advisor Marion Solheim at our Faculty of Medicine.

Registration: UiB students register in StudentWeb within February 1, 2025, course code CCBIO908. Other students from other Nordic universities register through Søknadsweb. Deadline Feb. 1 also here.

ECTS: 2 ECTS at the UiB for PhD candidates and other students.

Open for others: If you don’t need the ECTS (studiepoeng) registered as part of an education/degree, and just want to join the lectures for professional update, you register through this separate link.

Where: Birkhaugsalen, Sentralblokka 3rd floor, Haukeland University Hospital. In-person attendance.

When: May 20–21, 2025. 

Responsible: CCBIO with academic responsible Erling Høivik, erling.hoivik@uib.no.

More info: On this web page.

Welcome!

Link

Please save the date for Bridging Nordic ATMP a new ATMP Webinar Series hosted by the Nordic EATRIS Nodes.

The seminar series will take place online 12.00-13.00 CET once every month starting 5 February 2025 with a lecture by Professor Magnus Essand. Title of presentation: “Novel cell and gene therapies for the treatment of cancer – The Uppsala experience”

Magnus Essand obtained his PhD at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden in 1995 and his postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA. He returned to Sweden in 2000, first as an Associate Professor and from 2009 as a full Professor at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University. Essand has tutored twelve PhDs to the completion of their doctoral thesis and is currently the main supervisor of four PhD students and five postdocs. He has published more than 100 original peer-reviewed scientific research articles.

The next webinars will be held on:

• 12 March 2025 – David Morrow, EATRIS Senior Scientific Programme Manager
• 2 April 2025 – Seppo Ylä-Herttuala, Professor at University of Eastern Finland
• 7 May 2025 – Kamal Mustafa, Professor at the University of Bergen
• 4 June 2025 – Anna Passetto, Professor at University of Oslo & Marie Gårdmark, Regsmart

https://eatris.eu/events/bridging-nordic-atmps-webinar-series/

Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium (NORA) will organize NORA Summer Research School from Tuesday 10th June to Saturday 14th June 2025. The NORA Summer Research School will take place at Østfold University College, Campus Fredrikstad.

The Summer School offers four intensive courses on current topics within the field of Artificial Intelligence.

1. Multi-modal learning
2. Critical linguistic awareness in the intersection between human language and machine generated linguistic output
3. AI Ethics, Human Learning and Societal Change
4. Generative AI for Synthetic Data: Applications in Machine Learning

https://www.nora.ai/nora-research-school/education-programs/summer-school/summer-school-2025/

The Alrek Health Cluster’s Innovation and E-Health Working Group has created a comprehensive map showing who can help you move forward with an idea (https://alrekhelseklynge.no/prosjekter/visualisering-av-innovasjonskart-innen-helse-i-bergensregionen/). 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. MED participates in this project.

The Innovation Roadmap for the Bergen Region will soon be launched at the Alrek Health Cluster, and everyone who wishes to attend the launch event is very welcome.

Time/date: February 5th, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Location: The Canteen, Årstadveien 17

You will also have the opportunity to get acquainted with the new initiative TILT, which is VIS’s new academic entrepreneurship program designed to guide researchers in transforming groundbreaking research into successful startups or commercial ventures.

Registration to the seminar is required in order to have lunch, and the registration deadline is January 29th.

Information and registration link: Faglunsj: Lansering av innovasjonskartet – Alrek

This is a call for applications to the 7th UiB Momentum Programme. The application deadline is 21 March at 17.00 (CET).

Momentum is the UiB career development programme for early stage researchers at UiB who seek a career in academia.

The Momentum programme includes five seminars, planned to run between September 2025 and June 2026.

https://www.uib.no/en/foremployees/167616/open-call-2025-2026-momentum-programme

January 30th, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

The Research Council, through the Health portfolio, is announcing up to NOK 93 million for research that contributes to sustainable health-promoting and preventive measures, treatment, and services for vulnerable population groups. You can find the call text here (under the Health theme): Up to NOK 93 million for sustainable prevention, treatment, and services for vulnerable population groups.

In this webinar, we will provide an overview of the thematic call and answer any questions participants may have.

Link to the webinar

Hi!

The Climate and Energy Transition focus area is now announcing travel grants for master’s and PhD students and postdocs working on topics related to climate and/or energy transition.

There are two calls – travel grants for conferences, etc., and travel grants for fieldwork and short research stays.

The announcements are available in both Norwegian and English. The Norwegian text is the official text.

We ask that you spread the information about these announcements in your networks.

• Travel grants for fieldwork and short research stays
• Travel grants for conferences and workshops

The application deadline is February 21 at 12:00.

Best regards, Kristine Spildo and Kristin Guldbrandsen Frøysa

Kristin Guldbrandsen Frøysa, Dr. Scient. Energy Director University of Bergen

Cell phone: +47 480 22 045 Email: kristin.froysa@uib.no