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Course: Improve Your Academic Writing and Presentation Skills in English

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Mastering academic English can be as important as mastering your discipline itself. This is a course for PhD candidates and Postdoctoral fellows at the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Psychology who wants to improve their academic writing and presentation skills in English. There will be courses targeting other Faculties later this autumn.

Target group

PhD candidates and Postdoctoral fellows who want to improve their academic writing and presentation skills in English.
This course is especially targeting the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Psychology.

Application deadline

Application deadline is at 3 pm the 3rd of October 2022.

More information and Registration Improve Your Academic Writing and Presentation Skills in English | UiB Ferd karrieresenter for yngre forskere | UiB

Nordic AI Meet and Research School Annual Conference

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For PhD candidates across Norway working on AI linked topics, Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium (NORA) is planning two important activities in November.

  1. Nordic AI Meet, 14-15 November :https://nordicaimeet.com/ to bring a wide range of expertise in form of keynotes, select presentations & posters from PhD students across Nordics apart from Industry engagement and other fun activities.
  2. Research School Annual Conference, 16 November :https://www.nora.ai/research-school/symposium.html. The research school conference is more like an unconference as it will have components that foster tighter collaboration among PhD students and also enable them to meet each other face to face. There will be a mingling welcome dinner for the conference on 15thNovember in Kristiania University College Campus in Oslo Center. Seats are limited for the 16 November event. Registration is free but it will be on first come first serve basis.

Course in data protection and -security

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UiB handles large amounts of personal data and information, both in research and administration. You as an employee need to know how personal data is handled and how you can maintain data security, both for yourself as a person and for UiB.

All our employees complete a basic course in data protection and data security. The course consists of short modules, each of which takes a few minutes to complete.

This e-mail is being sent to you because you have not completed the course. We hope you will find the time to do this!

The link below will take you to the course on Mitt UiB:
Click here to start the course

Editorial

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New opportunities in Horizon Europe

While we wait for feedback from the Research Council on the applications sent this spring, it might be an idea to study the draft of the calls under the area ​​Health in Horizon Europe. There are many calls that are relevant to K2’s researchers. The various so-called destinations in the program are:

Destination 1 – Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society

Destination 2. Living and working in a health-promoting environment

Destination 3. Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden

Destination 4. Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health care

Destination 5. Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society and reducing disease burden

You will find calls that suit your area of ​​research. Several announcements under Destination 1 are aimed at personalized medicine. Under destination 5, it is possible to apply for projects that integrate artificial intelligence and health, including the development of new tools both for healthcare personnel and patients for the prevention and treatment of diseases.

The call has not yet been published, but you can access the draft by contacting our research advisor Susanna Pakkasmaa. She and the Research Department can be helpful with advice and guidance for those who are interested. Susanne is otherwise interested in meeting the institute’s research group leaders to get acquainted with the ongoing research.

Consider applying for EU funds both as a partner and coordinator

Good luck with your future applications

Eystein Husebye
Vice head of institute

Career Day for all PhD candidates and postdocs at The Faculty of Medicine – Wednesday October 19th

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Dear all

Welcome to the career day for all PhD candidates at the Faculty of Medicine! It will take place on October 19th from 09.30 to 16.00 in auditorium 1, in the BB building at Haukeland. In addition to internal and external presenters, some of our earlier PhD candidates will update us on what they have done after graduating. Furthermore, there will be held several relevant workshops at the end of the day. The career day will be held in English.

Participation is free, and coffee and lunch will be served. There will be good opportunities for mingling with your fellow candidates.

See our detailed program here.

Registration for the career day here. Deadline October 12th.

Hope to see you there!

Regards,

The PhD coordinator team

Horizon Europe courses

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In cooperation with the Research Council of Norway, Europa Media is organising practical training courses on the development and management of the Horizon Europe programme. All courses are only open for Norwegian organisations, and completely free to attend. See all courses at Forskningsrådets arrangementer (forskningsradet.no)

Open Access – step-by-step

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Governments, institutions, and funders expect researchers to make their research openly available. What is open access, why should you make your research publications openly available and what services and support is available at UiB?

The course is suited for both researchers and research administration, and will be held in English.

By the end of the course participants will have a better understanding of:

  • the background and aims of open access
  • different types of open access (green and gold) and how to achieve open access.
  • guidelines and requirements from UiB, government and funders.
  • services at UiB to support open access and open access publishing.

https://www.uib.no/en/ub/155416/open-access-publishing-step-step

Workshop on “Strengthening research careers”

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The European Commission has the pleasure to invite you to the online workshop on “Strengthening research careers: a focus on competences, balanced talent circulation and intersectoral mobility” that will take place on the 12th of September from 09:30 to 12:30 and from 13:30 to 16:00.

This workshop will present the main findings and outcomes from the study ‘Knowledge Ecosystem in the new ERA’ on the competence framework for researchers (morning session, including the potential uses and applications of the framework) and on balanced talent circulation (afternoon session, including issues of geographical brain drain and intersectoral mobility). Illustrations of cases will be presented for each of the topics, and pathways for further action will be discussed.

The detailed programme is attached. The workshop is organised in two sessions: morning and afternoon. Participants can attend either one of the sessions, or both, by registering via the link below.

Register her

More information here

Editorial

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Start of the semester – new possibilities

The start of the semester always seems filled with a special energy. The students seem particularly motivated this year. Hopefully your batteries are full after the summer vacation. Maybe this is the time to try out some new teaching techniques?

The first group of “Vestlandslege students” counting 200 students are now entering into clinical courses. MED3 and MED4 have been revised to handle increased student numbers and to improve teaching and learning. Change is never completely smooth, and I hope we will all work together to provide the best possible teaching and overall experience for the students. Then we may adjust the plans along the way.

K2 wishes to put together a working group to look into possibilities for developing postgraduate educational courses as a means of income to help turn the economy around. Please tell us if you have any good ideas!

The deadline for nominations to the Helse Vest Teaching Award 2022 is September 20th: : Kven er din kandidat til Utdanningsprisen i Helse Vest? – Helse Vest RHF (helse-vest.no) .

Mette Vesterhus
Head of Teaching