The course will be arranged at Department of Clinical Science between April 20 – April 24, 2015. Deadline for signing up is 20.02.2015. For more information click here.

2014 has been a demanding and tight budget year. However, we still managed to close the budget in balance, which was important in order to visualize the good financial management of K2. We have not increased our debts in 2014, but we still have to tackle our old debt of 3.2 million from 2013. Thus, we must outline how we intend to reduce the deficit in the coming years.

The 2015 budget must be in balance despite the extra “burden” of a very good result of the local salary negotiations for K2 employees. The negotiations ended with a 5 % salary increase which increased the annual salary costs at K2 with 2.6 million per year. We will obtain a 3 % salary- and price compensation, but an overall 1.6 % cut by UiB’s central administration brings the overall compensation down to 1,4%. Thus, in order to achieve a balanced budget we have to continue with technician payment of 50 000 per year per technician. We will receive a total of 4 million in operating funds for PhD and Postdocs. Of these, 2.8 million will be spent on the 25 public defenses planned for 2015, and approximately 500.000 will be used to cover the deficits. The remaining 650.000 will be earmarked PhD-Candidates and Postdocs. To compensate, the annual Small Operating Funds of 760.000 will be allocated to PhD-Candidates and Postdocs; candidates from “poor” research groups will have priority (announcement will come in February). As for external funding, it is great to register that there has been a 46 % increase in BOA-funding since the establishment of K2 in 2013.

K2 thus has many “rich” groups, but the department itself has very little room to maneuver. As a result it is almost given how we have to distribute our funding to come deliver a budget in balance.

The budget will be on the agenda at the Institute Council on February 5.
Click here for the budget.

Best regards

Eystein Husebye                                                        Synnøve Myhre

Head of Department                                                  Head of Administration

A political strike against changes in the The Wokring Environment Act will take place on 28.01 at 14:00-16:00.

As per instructions from the Department, enterprises will deduct salary from employees participating in the strike.

 -All UiB employees planning to leave their work place in order to participate in the strike must warn nearest leader and their union representative as soon as possible, an no later than by the end of Friday 23.01.
– Necessary preparedness must be taken into consideration
– Salary will be deducted for participating in the strike
– Faculties and departments will subsequent to the event submit a list of names to the Payroll Office with copy sent to Division of Human Resources.

 For more information click here (in Norwegian)

Ingrid Kristin Torsvik will have her Public defence on Friday January 30, 2015

Trial lecture: Friday January 30. 2015, 10.15
Topic: “Svangerskap etter overvekts kirurgi; risiko for mor og det nyfødte barnet”
Place: Barneklinikkens auditorium, Jonas Lies vei 65

Public defence: Friday January 30, 2015, 12.15
Place: Barneklinikkens auditorium, Jonas Lies vei 65 
Title of dissertation: “B vitamin and iron status during infancy”
1st opponent Professor Olle Hernell, Universitetet i Umeå, Sverige 
2st opponent : Professor Claus Klingenberg, Norges arktiske universitet, Tromsø

 Pressemelding

MiC will arrange a course in Multimodal Imaging on March 16-20, 2015.  The course has limited capacity, so it is important register early.  Click here for course description and link for signing up. Click here for complete course program.

Agora is a web-based collaboration portal all employees in the University- and College sector may use. The portal lets you share documents and files with others, and offers both open and closed groups. For more information (in Norwegian) click here.

The course will take place in Oslo on 03.03.2015 and will focus on a review of the employee invention law from 2003 as well as provide information on conclusion of a contract and ensuring IPR.  For more information click here (in Norwegian).

The Bergen Postgraduate School of Clinical Medical Research invites everyone interested to attend the Research Presentations 2014 event which will take place in week 5 (January 26-30). Several of our PhD-Candidates will contribute with posters and oral presentations. Click here for complete program. Click here for list of poster presentations. Click here for list of oral presentations. Click here for program for the rewarding ceremony (in Norwegian).

We would like to inform everyone that Erasmus has new announcements of funds aimed at mobility. This funding is available for all employees – technical, administrative and scientific. More information about the announcements can be found under the heading “Application deadlines”.

May 4-5 2015 at Scandic Ørnen Hotel, Bergen. For more information click here.

February 4-6 2015.  For more information (in Norwegian) click here.