Category Archives: 2025

Strategic Plan 2025–2030: Shaping the Future of K2 Together

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The leadership at K2 has now established the strategic framework for the institute’s development over the next five years. The 2025–2030 strategic plan provides a clear direction for how we will strengthen our position as a leading medical research and education institution.

Research

We aim to enhance both the quality of our scientific output and the level of external funding. Key initiatives include:

  •  Maintaining a high proportion of externally funded activities (BOA), with a target of 25% relative to total allocations.
  • Increasing the use of open access publishing and prioritizing publications in high-impact (level 2) journals.
  • Strengthening collaboration with research advisors, with a focus on competitive grant applications to NFR, ERC, EU, Helse Vest, TMS, KG Jebsen, and similar funding bodies.

Education

We are committed to high-quality teaching and digital competence:

  • Providing training in digital platforms such as TP, Mitt UiB, and Inspera.
  • Harmonizing study plans across regional hospitals to ensure a unified implementation of Vestlandslegen.
  • Enhancing support for part-time academic staff at affiliated hospitals.

Innovation

We promote both technological and social innovation:

  • Organizing annual FORUM meetings with innovation as a central theme.
  • Encouraging participation in innovation arenas such as the Eitri Innovation Hub and Start Bergen.

Recruitment and Infrastructure

We will pursue strategic recruitment and capacity building, with a focus on academic merit and institutional needs:

  •  Improving access to and visibility of technological platforms and equipment through searchable online resources.
  • Strengthening research schools and academic networks.
  • Offering research training courses and supervisor development programs.

Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE)

We strive to be a safe, inclusive, and attractive workplace:

  •  Conducting annual updates of the HSE handbook and action plan.
  • Emphasizing the psychosocial work environment and ensuring a clear and supportive leadership structure.

Dissemination

We aim to increase the visibility of K2’s activities and achievements:

  • Establishing regular meeting points between the communications advisor and research group leaders.
  • Maintaining up-to-date websites and actively utilizing K2nytt.
  • Enhancing our presence in the media, including newspapers, social media, and other public platforms.

This strategy is our shared roadmap—and our success depends on collective effort. Thank you for your continued dedication and contributions.

Best regards,
Eystein Sverre Husebye
Deputy Head, K2

Researcher interested in women’s health?

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Join us on November 5th!

Driv Center for Women’s Health Research invites you to the National Conference on Women’s Health Research in the University Auditorium in Bergen.

The conference brings together researchers from all over the country and offers a strong academic program, which is updated on the website, within:
• Translational research
• Biomedical research
• Clinical research
• Community medicine research

In addition, there will be a panel debate on how we can implement women’s health research in clinical practice – an important step in strengthening women’s health in the entire population.
📝 Registration and submission of abstracts opens on August 1st!
💡 Driv for Women’s Health: Research that changes
👉 Feel free to share with fellow researchers – see you in Bergen!

#women’shealth #healthresearch #women’shealthresearch #Driv #research #conference #medicine #equality

📢 Important reminder about refrigerator routines

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Hi everyone,

Sofie and Ingri have just done a thorough cleaning of the fridge, and unfortunately we discovered some food that had expired – some all the way back to 2020. There was also a strong smell and mold at the bottom of the fridge, as well as water accumulation as a result of this.

To avoid similar situations in the future, we remind you of the following:

🗑️Throw away food that has expired – especially if it is several years old.
📅 Regularly check the date markings on the food you put in.
🧼 Keep the fridge tidy and clean – don’t let it pile up with old food.
👥 Shared responsibility – we appreciate everyone taking responsibility for their own food.

I am happy to take responsibility for following up on keeping the fridge tidy going forward, but it is important that everyone contributes.

A funny depiction of a fridge that is long overdue to be cleaned. A man wearing a hazardous materials clean suit and gas mask pulls things out and puts them into a yellow biohazard bag. Smoke or steam pours from the the open refrigerator door.

This weeks edithorial

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Dear everyone,

Congratulations to Silje Skrede who will start as vice-dean for research, research education and innovation from August.

Then we received the happy news this week that Bergithe Oftedal has been awarded Fripro funds from NFR, congratulations so much!

The results from the department council election have also been published, the members from 1.8.25 are:

Group A (permanent employees in teaching and research positions): Stefan Johansson, Randi Bertelsen, Emmet Mc Cormack and Aase Raddum. Deputies: Holger Bratke, Anders Førsvoll

Group B (temporary employees in teaching and research positions): Ulrik Larsen, deputy: Hege Fredriksen Berg, Marianne Bråtveit

Group C (technical and administrative staff): Kristin Paulsen Rye, deputy: Bente Berg Johansson, Maartine Jordana Baarholm

Thank you for participating, I look forward to good cooperation!

And last but not least: remember the FAMU group work on June 19th at 12-14 (calendar notice follows!), and save the date September 8th for the department’s day at 11:30-16:00 at Bikuben.

Have a great weekend!

Silke

 

Workshop: AI-supported assessment and feedback

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Dear colleagues,

Next week there will be a workshop on AI-supported assessment and feedback provided by Olav Tenstad.

The workshop is organized by the ‘Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Health in Bergen’ and is aimed at lecturers in medicine and health at the Faculty of Medicine at UiB, Høgskulen på Vestlandet and Helse Bergen.

When: Thursday June 19th, 13:00 – 16:00

Where: Grupperom 9A110bP, 9th floor at the BBB

For more details and to sign up for the workshop, please got to: https://forms.gle/XbBx5Z6WexLNiRHW6

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to let me know.

Best regards,

Harald

Defence | Lars Tveiten | 20.06.25

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FACULTY OF MEDICINE
UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
PUBLIC DEFENCE – Ph.D. DEGREE
Lars Tveiten

The candidate is affiliated with the Department of Clinical Science (Klinisk institutt 2).

Main Supervisor: Professor Emeritus Trond Markestad
Co-Supervisor: Professor Thomas Halvorsen

Trial Lecture:  Friday, June 20, 2025, at 10:15 AM

Location: Auditorium, Armauer Hansen’s House, Haukelandsveien 28
Assigned topic: “Methods for Detecting Circulatory Shock in Newborns”

Public Defence: Friday, June 20, 2025, at 12:15 PM

Location: Auditorium, Armauer Hansen’s House, Haukelandsveien 28

Title of the Thesis:
“Vital Signs During the First 24 Hours of Life in Healthy Term Newborn Infants. Reference intervals for respiratory rate, heart rate, and rectal temperature: an observational study”

Opponent: Associate Professor Lise Aunsholt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Opponent: Associate Professor Eirik Nestaas, University of Oslo
Committee Member: Professor Nils-Halvdan Morken

The defence will be chaired by Professor Petur Juliusson.

Open to all interested parties

Leader of the week

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Dear everyone!

Then we are in the process of working with the results of the FAMU survey. On Friday, we had a joint meeting where I presented the results from K2 as a unit. The next step will be meetings in groups on Thursday 19 June at 12-14, where the results from the group will be presented and worked on. The groups that had enough participants so that we have received the answers are the Glass Blocks 5th and 6th floor, the Lab Building 1M, the 5th, 8th and 9th floors. The rest will have to work with the answers from K2 as a whole. The purpose of the mapping meetings is to identify areas that need to be improved and areas that need to be preserved. You will be summoned to the group meetings, I hope as many as possible can participate. On the department’s day in the autumn, we will then continue to work in groups and agree on what measures we should initiate to improve our working environment at K2.

Another issue I would like to inform you about is that the new Universities and University Colleges Act from last year entails some changes in the requirements for external examiners. External examiners are now only required for independent work in a higher degree (e.g. master’s thesis), while bachelor’s theses and oral exams (including OSKE) as well as written exams that amount to more than 15 credits require 2 examiners, both of which can be internal. For written exams of less than 15 credits, 1 internal examiner is sufficient. Thus, we will reduce the use of external sensors.

And last but not least: Thank you very much to everyone who participated for a well executed OSKE12! It requires a lot of effort from both question owners, examiners, study administration (extra big thanks to Martine and Øyvind!), administrative helpers and not least OSKE12 coordinator Rune Nielsen.

Have a great week!

Silke

Have you forgotten to register your vacation?

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The deadline to register your main vacation (minimum three weeks) was May 1st, so it is important that you register as soon as possible.

(Vacation for secondary positions is recorded by the Service Sentre, this is the only exception).

Vacation is recorded in the Self Service Portal, and this is something each employee must do themselves. Unregistered vacation is recorded in the accounts as a liability for the department, so it is of great importance that this is done.

If you later need to move vacation days, this is easy to change.

Failure to register vacation results in unnecessary extra work for the administration.

https://www.rrmc.org/news-media/healthy-together/health-wellness/five-reasons-to-take-that-vacation/

 

Collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

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UiB has initiated a pilot project with MIT collaboration funds —meaning that researchers from MIT can apply for funding to collaborate with us. The Faculty of Medicine will join this initiative starting this autumn, with call announced in September.

The funding is relatively modest—a grant of $30,000 USD—which can be used for travel and short-term stays in both directions. It is administered by MIT, so the MIT partner will act as the applicant. UiB researchers are encouraged to mobilize their MIT contacts. Environments/researchers at K2 who might be interested are invited to contact research advisor Andreas Westermoen at andreas.westermoen@uib.no before 17th June.