Join us for an inspiring professional breakfast where we explore how user involvement can improve the development of public services. Learn about best practices and gain insights into how you can engage and involve users to create more effective and user-friendly solutions. The recent national digitalization strategy clearly emphasizes user involvement in service development.

The event is free and open to everyone.

Program

• 08:15: Mingling and breakfast
• 08:45: Welcome by DesignLab in Bergen Municipality
• 08:50: Introduction to Eitri and the course User Involvement in Medical and Health Research by Ådne Iden Høiland and Tone Skår
• 08:55: Time for Action: How are users involved in the introduction of new services? by Agnete Gullaksen and Ingrid Cutler
• 09:05: User Involvement with the Entire Kindergarten Team by Øystein Mongstad, Tone Mette Sleire, and Lina Falk
• 09:15: Practical Exercises by DesignLab
• 10:00: Thank you for today

Welcome!

About the Speakers

• Agnete L. Gullaksen – UX Designer, Helse Vest IKT
• Ingrid Cutler – Solution Architect, Helse Vest IKT
• Øystein Mongstad – Service Designer, DesignLab in Bergen Municipality
• Tone Mette Sleire – Project Manager and Senior Advisor, Department of Kindergartens
• Lina Falk – Service Designer and Visual Storyteller, DesignLab in Bergen Municipality
• Tone Skår – Project Manager at Eitri and Norway Health Tech, Vestland Division
• Ådne Høiland – Director of Eitri

About the Organizers This design breakfast is organized by DesignLab in Bergen Municipality in collaboration with Eitri.

Påmelding til designfrokost 9. januar Brukerinvolvering i offentlig tjenesteutvikling

Get to know the women’s health research taking place at the University of Bergen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Haukeland University Hospital, Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital, and Bergen Municipality.

The event is open to researchers at UiB, HVL, HB, Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital, and Bergen Municipality and will take place at the Eitri Medical Incubator.

The program and registration link will be published later.

Fagdag for kvinnehelseforskning 17. januar | Driv – Senter for kvinnehelseforskning | UiB  (only available in Norwegian)

Due to the financial challenges, it will unfortunately not be possible to advertise any research fellows or postdoc positions in 2025. We hope to have room to advertise research fellow positions in the autumn of 2025, but we will have to come back to that. The faculty management finds this unfortunate, and is aware that it will have consequences for the research activity at the faculty.

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The university leadership invites everyone to a joint research infrastructure day at UiB to highlight the importance of research infrastructure in building and maintaining internationally leading research environments at a comprehensive university like UiB.

We ask everyone involved in and interested in research infrastructure at UiB to save the date. More information and a draft program will be available in the first week of January.

More information: https://w3.uib.no/nb/fia/174733/uib-forskningsinfrastrukturdag

(only available in Norwegian)

In March, it will be five years since the pandemic reached Norway. The University of Bergen is marking this with an open conference focusing on knowledge preparedness for health crises.

On March 14, 2025, Rector Margareth Hagen invites you to a conference in the University’s Aula, focusing on the challenges and experiences that key figures in politics, administration, and academia faced in the days and weeks around March 12, 2020. The conference is free and open to everyone. Registration can be done here Fem år etter nedstengning- Kunnskapsberedskap for helsekriser | Pandemisenteret | UiB

We are pleased to welcome Kristin Aunan, Research Director at CICERO, to our third webinar.

As temperatures reach record highs, attention and awareness of the health consequences of climate change are increasing. In the recently completed EU project EXHAUSTION (Exposure to heat and air pollution in Europe – cardiopulmonary impacts and benefits of mitigation and adaptation), CICERO has examined the relationship between ambient heat and health consequences across Europe, assessed current health burdens, and projected them under various climate scenarios. Aunan will share more about the project, findings, and future directions in the webinar.

• Date: December 13, 2024
• Time: 12:00-12:40
• Language: English

Format: Digital Climate Health Initiative (CHI) Webinar #3

Sorry, this entry is only available in Norsk.

Of course you would never publish in a predatory journal…or would you?

UiB Ferd Career Centre lecture about predatory publishing. Henriette Christie Ertsås/ Science to the people humbly asks if scientific discovery can ever be compatible with the reigning publishing model, without science and society falling prey.

Together with food for thoughts, UiB Ferd will bring the festive mood with complimentary gingerbread-cookies and Gløgg!

12.12.2024 – 12.00–14.00

Sign up https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=17933817

Do you have an innovative idea you wish to develop further? The University of Bergen offers support for early-stage innovation projects through UiB Idé. The next application deadline is 14 February 2025.Early-stage innovation projects should have the potential to address a need or contribute to societal benefit, have the potential for value creation, and the potential for scalability/becoming available to specific users or society. Projects can come from any academic discipline.

How much can you apply for?

Research projects (including PhD and postdoctoral projects): Up to NOK 500,000

Student projects: Up to NOK 100,000

For more information, visit uib.no/ide.

If you have questions, contact Yves Aubert Senior Advisor at the Division of Research and Innovation.

The purpose of the Pioneer Innovator Grant Sustainability & Health is to accelerate the commercialization of research findings and the development of novel technologies within sustainability or health.

Both areas of the Pioneer Innovator Grants seek to support novel academic science-based discoveries with commercial potential. The grant aims to stimulate the evaluation of ideas and to support experiments and activities leading to proof-of-concept or beyond.

• Call opens 10 January 2025
• Call closes 13 March 2025 2:00pm (CEST)
• Amount Up to DKK 1.1 million per grant.
• Location Nordic region

https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/grant/pioneer-innovator-grant/