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.

Best,
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

Program: The European Partnership for Personalised Medicine (EP PerMed)
Outline Deadline: February 18, 2025, at 14:00 CET
Full Application Deadline for those advancing from outline: June 17, 2025, at 14:00 CEST

Personalized Medicine – Pharmacogenomics
The call (JTC2025) will fund research in human health on pharmacogenomic strategies for personalized medicine. The consortia must be transnational, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral.

The call covers research within all disease groups.
Amount provided by the Research Council: 1.5 million Euros.
Minimum-maximum amount you can apply for: 200,000 – 300,000 Euros, or up to 400,000 Euros if a Norwegian researcher is the coordinator.

https://www.forskningsradet.no/utlysninger/internasjonale-fellesutlysninger/farmakogenomiske-strategier-for-persontilpasset-medisin/

https://www.eppermed.eu/funding-projects/calls/jtc2025/

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

Seminar in the UiB AI series, about quantum technology. Is there a quantum revolution coming?

24.01.2025 – 10.00–12.00
Storsalen, Nygårdsgaten 5 (first floor)

What is quantum technology and what can it be used for? The government is strengthening research into quantum technology from 2025, along three main tracks: quantum data processing and simulation, quantum sensors and measurements, and quantum communication. In this seminar, we look at developments in quantum technology and what it can mean for science and society.

UiB AI #13: Kvanteteknologi | UiB AI | UiB

Suitable for: The event is suitable for those who are interested in research and innovation in municipal health and care services.

Digital: The event will be streamed

Date and Time: January 15, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

The Research Council of Norway and KS invite you to an event for those who are interested in research and innovation in municipal health and care services.

https://www.forskningsradet.no/arrangementer/2025/barekraftige-kommunale-helse-omsorgstjenester-erfaringer-muligheter/#msdynmkt_trackingcontext=8e58b915-1ede-40c6-95d6-3429fa0d0a57

Most people are familiar with AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and other language models. In addition, there are a number of generative AI tools developed with studies and research in mind. For example, there are AI tools that help you find literature, understand texts, write texts, correct grammar, and translate to/from other languages. But do these tools work as well as they promise? What are the disadvantages? And what should you be aware of if you want to use such tools? In this workshop, you will get an insight into which tools are available, what to consider before using them, and test AI tools that you think may be useful for you.

Date and Time: February 3, 2025 – 12:00–15:00 Location: Aktiv Room 1 – Realfagbygget (Allégaten 41)

https://www.uib.no/ub/174071/generative-ki-verkt%C3%B8y-i-studier-og-forskning