FRIPRO/FRIMEDBIO plans to give 250 million in free project grants in the fields of medicine, health and biology. There will be 4 categories: Postdoctoral fellowship, young research talents, event support and research projects. Deadline is May 21st 2014. For more information (in Norwegian).
A rare opportunity to meet one of the world’s leading epidemiologists and an excellent lecturer. Kenneth J. Rothman gives a course 6-9 May 2014 at the University of Oslo. Registration deadline is April 23.
The institutes will conduct an election of representatives from group B (teaching and research positions) for the institute councils. The election will be held May 8-13 2014. For more information (in Norwegian).
Bernt Bøgvald Aarli
Thursday April 10, 10-11.
For more information.
Eli Kristin Aadland
Thursday April 10, 11-12.
For more information.
Both evaluations will be held in the seminar room, 7th floor, Lab-building.
University of Bergen is holding a national study quality conference with the theme quality control systems.
Time: Tuesday May 20, 10:00-16:00
Place: Clarion Hotel, Flesland, Bergen
For more information and registration (in Norwegian).
Section for Hematology is holding a seminar about the Translational Hematology Cluster April 9, 12:00-15:00. The seminar will be held in the conference room, 3rd floor, BB-building. Program.
Nanosymposium will be held April 8, 09:15-13:30, at Haukeland University Hospital, Auditorium B302, 3rd floor.
New positions at K2
Despite the tight financial situation at the institute, we must steadily work with future recruitment of staff. Good recruitment is extremely important for the long-term development of the institute. This spring, K2 will start working on the framework for future recruitment.
It will be important to single out and weigh the criteria to be used in the recruitment process. Key words are teaching needs and skills, research, cooperation abilities, and leadership.
Unanswered questions are whether or not new positions should be allocated the academic sections or if we should follow the model: “We don’t care what you do as long as you are a leader in your field”. What weight should the university clinics’ wish for specialized skills be given? Likewise, we must discuss what positions are most suitable given the tasks we have – should we aim for more 50 and 100 % positions at the expense of 20 % positions? Should the division of principal positions into multiple 20% positions as has been the case in recent years be reversed? Should we now hire more people to technical positions at the expense of scientific personnel?
We will begin by collecting background information about the present employment situation, expected budget resources for new positions, teaching needs (undervisningsregnskap) and scientific production (Cristin). Next we will ask for input from you regarding the principles for prioritization, as well as well-founded requests for new positions. I hope many of you will engage actively in this.
Welcome to an important and a most certainly, demanding process. A detailed plan for the recruitment process will be published in K2’s weekly newsletter during April.
Eystein Husebye
EU’s third health program (2014-2020) has not been accepted yet, but here are updates on the program (in Norwegian) and a preliminary draft work plan for 2014. It is important to remember that the draft work plan is preliminary, and that large modifications could be made for the current year.
Medlm is a nationwide multidisciplinary network promoting high quality research training. The research school’s multidisciplinary approach is illustrated by the range of relevant fields: ultrasound, MRI, PET, CT, image guided surgery, biomedical optics and bionanotechnology. The research school offers grants to PhD candidates, and various forms of support to course teachers and supervisors. For more
information.
Uppsala University is holding an internet course in pharmaceutical bioinformatics. The course runs twice a year and starts in September and January. The course is eligible for 7,5 ECT. For more information.
