We wish to congratulate Professor Stefan Johansson from K2 and Professor Jan Haavik from Department of Biomedicine with the grant from EU’s 8th Framework Programme, Horizon 2020. The grant is allocated the interdisciplinary research network MiND which focuses on ADD and autism, and where UiB is a partner.
Read more about the allocation here (in Norwegian).
It is a recurrent problem that people park their cars in the guest spots at the parking lot outside the 8th floor of the Laboratory Building without having reserved the spot in advance. As long as you do not have an allocated spot, ALL parking in the guest parking spots must be approved by either Lars or Klaus in the 8th floor reception in advance.
Parking in the handicap spots is not allowed without a valid handicap certificate.
The upcoming autumn’s most important day is, without a doubt, this year’s Exam and Teaching Seminar. Here is the program (in Norwegian). The seminar is mandatory for all lecturers at K2. Sign up here before August 25.
The Bergen Postgraduate School of Clinical Medical Research will arrange a new course in clinical practice for PhD-candidates (GCP901) autumn 2014.
Course schedule is:
23.06, at 08.30 – 12.00
25.09, at 08.30 – 16.00
03.10, at 09.00 – 11.00
On 25.09 the lectures are joint with Helse-Bergen’s GCP-course.
Completed course will yield one course credit.
Sign up in StudentWeb by September 1.
Click here to read more about the course.
“CCBIO Research School for Cancer Studies” will officially open on 11.9 at 1 pm in Auditorium 2, BB-Building.
Cancer researcher Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale will give a talk.
Mark your calendars right away, more details will follow.
Follow us on the CCBIO website.
The library offers courses in literature searching and handling of references
The courses are aimed at employees and students at University of Bergen and Haukeland University Hopsital. The courses are free of charge.
Autumn 2014 courses are offered in:
– PubMed & EMBASE
– Literature searching within knowledge based practice
– EndNote – course for beginners and refresher course
Click here for complete course programme with dates and information on how to sign up (In Norwegian).
If other seminars or courses are desired at the section, the library may be contacted. Click here for more information (In Norwegian).
On Thursday August 14, the network in the lab-building will be unavailable in periods between 6 am and 8 am due to replacement and upgrade of network-switcher.
The work will begin on floors 1-2-3 at 6 am, then floors 4-5-6, and finally there will be a new shut down off the network for one of the four switches serving floors 7-8-9 for installment of the correct part.
This last task will affect the same systems which suffered the longest shut down last time. All work will be completed by 8 am.
Lise Gundersen, senior scientist at K2, and Ingvild Aukrust, postdoc at K2, have written an article which is published in Bergens Tidende. The article discusses diabetes in Latino Americans. Click here to read the article (In Norwegian).
Thursday 19.06.2014 at 14:00, Parkinglot at 8th floor. Labatory building.
Attend by sending e-mail to irene.hjelmaas@k2.uib.no – June 17.
Welcome 🙂
The application deadline for NFR, free research grants, is now passed, and a total of 18 applications were sent from K2. This is about a third of the applications from MOF. It is an impressive effort from many. We will do an evaluation of the support the institute gave to the applicants. We will come back to that.
It is, however, a paradox that we are mobilising so much effort for funding with low acceptance rate, while many of us are not aware of other NFR research programs where the acceptance rate is much higher than in the free research grants. I will therefore strongly urge people to check other calls from NFR, to see if they may have projects that fit these calls.
The next application round is to The Norwegian Cancer Society, with deadline June 2. I encourage all who plan to apply to notice that the project money from the Cancer Society does not cover rent and administration costs which incur automatically on all externally financed positions. The faculty has agreed to cover these costs, but only if it is cleared in beforehand. It means that the institute, Siv, must get a message BEFORE the application is sent about all the positions that is being applied for. Rent and administration costs (contribution margin) on granted positions without pre-applied clearing must be covered by the applicant.
Per
The Chemical Storage is closed on the following days in June: Wednesday 4th, Tuesday 17th, and from Thursday 26th to 1st of July.
It is also closed on Friday the 30th of May.
The Cancer Society’s annual main call for research funding for positions and operation is announced. You can now apply for support for researcher initiated cancer research projects in any research field. The projects are usually in the categories basal research, translational research, clinical research, epidemiologic research, health and social research or alternative/complementary research, but any application for cancer related research will be considered.
The application deadline is Monday June 2nd 2014, at 13:00. The Cancer Society will only accept applications sent electronically via the application portal.
Please keep in mind that the system of short-term clinical grants is now extended to all professions whose main position is in the clinic. Moreover, it is now possible to apply for a free position for a longer period than before, up to one year (full time).
For more information (in Norwegian).
NB! Applications to the Norwegian Cancer Society must be approved by the institute. The reason for this is that only projects approved in advance by the institute will get a refund for the contribution margin from the faculty.
The institute has now installed a new software for presenting information on the various information screens located at the institute. If you have any content you wish to present on these screens, you may send this to PhD-candidate Havjin Jacob.
Every year the Norwegian Language Council give an award for outstanding use of Norwegian in nonfiction. The award is given alternate years for bokmål and nynorsk. This year it is bokmål.
The awards are given for individual works or productions from the last five years and may go to persons or groups (institutions, businesses, organisations). Candidates may be from industry, research, education (educational resources), management, the press, technology, culture (e.g. blogger) and so on.
Everyone can nominate candidates for the Language Award (in Norwegian). Send your suggestions, with out without reasons, to Eilov Runnesto by June 20.
There is a need for the implementation of new, student activating teaching methods. This will be the main topic of this year’s Exam and teaching seminar which will be arranged on Wednesday 17.09.14 at Hotel Terminus. Remember to set aside the date now!
The medical faculties in Norway are cooperation on a national platform for e-learning resources. Harald Wiker is our contact person for the development of e-learning resources both in DIGUiB and towards the national e-learning platform. As a starting point all lecturers are encouraged to contact the IT department at brita and apply for access to the program Camtasia Relay. With this program you may create video-recordings for e-learning at your own PC. Dean of Education, Arne Tjølsen, has created a user manual (in Norwegian).
Good luck!
Eva
Due to vacation Friday 25th and Monday 28th of April, there will only be one mail delivery.
Horizon 2020 spotlight: How to influence the work programme?
In general, there is no master plan, and the long-term process is not entirely transparent. It is advisable to take a broad approach involving stakeholders and researchers from other Member States.
Novo Nordisk Fonden announces research grants for Clinical Research Fellowship at Steno Diabetes Center with deadline June 20th, and Research projects in endocrinology and experimental physiology in the Nordics, deadline June 2nd.
Aftenposten is holding a writing course for young scientists May 27-28 at the University of Bergen. Registration before May 2.
For more information (in Norwegian).
Bergen Branch of the Norwegian Society for Immunology and Bergen Research School in Inflammation is holding the Immunology Day, Tuesday April 29, 10:00-14:00. The day will be spent in the Store Auditorium in the Central Building at Haukeland University Hospital. For more information and program ( in Norwegian).
BIO is holding a seminar May 15 at VilVite. The Seminar will be closed with a feast in the evening. Registration for the seminar here. Registration for the feast here.
For more information (in Norwegian).
University of Stavanger is hosting the annual national conference on research education, June 2-3 2014. The conference is held by UHR’s forum for research education. The title of this year’s conference is “The
PhD education is changing – perspectives and consequences”. Registration deadline is May 2nd. For more information (in Norwegian).
There will only be one round of mail delivery April 14-15. There will be no mail delivery on Wednesday. TPS is open until 12:00 and external post going out that day must be in by 10:30.
The Campus Bus will go as usual April 14-15. No bus on Wednesday April 16.
The unit for material, moving and other transportation is closed all of Easter, from Monday April 14 to Monday April 21.
All units, institutes and faculties that are closed during Easter should report to TPS on e-mail.
For more information (in Norwegian).
Scientific publishing, expert committee and nominations for level 1 and 2
As you all know, institutions (for example UiB) are accredited for scientific publications authored by persons acknowledging affiliation with the institutional unit at the time of publishing (through author affiliations included in the publication). The units are credited based on the share of the publication’s authors affiliated with the unit. This is called author shares. Thus it is important that addresses etc. are correct in Cristin and here the responsibility rests on the individual institution (read: also researcher).
The national measurement system for scientific publications is based on a subdivision of scientific publications in various levels based on an evaluation of the quality of the journals. The purpose of a quality division of journals is to stimulate high quality output when publishing scientific articles. When the publication channel has level 1 or 2 it means that it is of approved standard, and level 2 channels have the highest international prestige (about 20 % of all scientific journals within respective disciplines).
NSD is case handling level 1 channels, whereas UHRs’ Publication council is coordinating the placement of level 2 channels. This is done based on feedback from UHR’s many national expert committees. The national expert committee you will find here.
You may search for any scientific journal at NDS‘s publication channel register.
In order to find out where “your” scientific journals are situated, you may read pages 4 and 5 in the following letter. This was sent out together with the nomination process last autumn 2013. Here you will find links to all scientific journals in medicine, sorted into academic sub-disciplines. Note that changes done last autumn will not be updated in this letter (which was sent out prior to the nominating).
If you wish to suggest changes in levels 1 and/or 2 within your academic area you may contact the national expert committee or NSD which is responsible for administering centralized services for the documentation system, such as registers for authorized publication channels (scientific journals, series and publishers):
– Procedures for suggestions to the register (in Norwegian): Description of procedures for adding new channels to the register, with focus on how user suggestions are processed.
– Criteria for approval of new publication channels (in Norwegian): Information about criteria used to evaluate new channels.
– System for research documentation (in Norwegian): Information about the model for the documentation system.
Deadline for suggesting new channels within the reporting year 2014 is November 30.
Roland
Unlike most other project types in the Horizon2020, you cannot apply for coverage of salary costs through these training networks. Instead, a fixed sum is given for salary. The difference between the payment from the project and actual salary cost for a PhD at UoB is approximately 200.000 NOK/year. This difference was formerly covered through NFR’s supplementary financing of Marie Curie candidates with the so-called IS-TOPP scheme. It appears that this scheme will no longer be available in the Horizon2020.
The management wants the University’s communities to apply, and therefore will UoB warrant for these costs – if the scheme from NFR is removed.
For more information (in Norwegian).
UoB will for the first time appoint and honorary alumni, and invites all students and employees to nominate candidates.
Criteria:
-The candidate must have an education from UoB (credits)
-The candidate must have done an extraordinary effort for the University of Bergen, the faculties, institute or centre, or inside his/her own field.
Nomination:
-Suggestions for candidate(s) must be sent to alumni@uib.no
-Deadline: April 9
-The students will be informed of the opportunity to nominate candidates via Mi side
For more information(in Norwegian).
The award will be announced at the Alumni Days at UoB May 10 2014.
The theme of the new issue is Computer Safety (in Norwegian).
You can find the entire themed series here (in Norwegian).
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.