Category Archives: Seminars and conferences

Tax seminar

Sign up and join us for an online information meeting regarding paying tax in Norway.

This is useful if you are moving to Norway, shifting between Norway and other working countries, or working from abroad. We will have this seminar 2 Fridays per month, from 11.00 to 11.30. The next seminar will be on January 13th. In the registration form you can choose which date you want to sign up to. Read more.

EIC and EMA webinar

The European Innovation Council (EIC) and the European Medicine Agency (EMA) will jointly hold a webinar on ‘Regulatory Support for the Development of Innovative Medicines and Technologies‘. The main aim is to inform researchers and SMEs active in research and innovation in the pharmaceutical and med-tech sectors about the wide range of EMA’s support services available and how to access them.

This free webinar will take place on 31 January 2023 (8:00-11:30 UK time) and no registration is required. The event will be broadcasted online. The agenda and further information are available on the event website.

Use infrastructure to boost your research

Helse Bergen and the Faculty of Medicine invite to an information event about how our four European Research Infrastructures can help you and your research.

Through local, national and international collaboration, you can increase the quality of your research and improve your chances with funding opportunities.

Helse Bergen and the University of Bergen are members of the four European Research Infrastructures:

  • ECRIN – European network for clinical trials, Norwegian partner is NorCRIN
  • EATRIS –  European network for Translational Medicine
  • BBMRI – European infrastructure for Biobanking, Norwegian partner is Biobank Norway
  • ELIXIR – the European Research Infrastructure for Life Science Data, with its Norwegian Node ELIXIR Norway

We want to tell you how these infrastructures can help you and your research.

We invite you to an information event on the 5th of January at 13:00 at the EITRI Medical Incubator.

NorCRIN, EATRIS, BBMRI and ELIXIR will be presented and we will talk about specific calls for funding and how scientific collaboration can help you make progress with your research.

We will be available for 1-to-1 conversation before and after the info meeting.

More information here

Welcome to Its21 – call for abstracts! Deadline January 15th

The 7th conference on interdisciplinary teamwork skills for the 21st century, will be held in Bergen, Norway on 27th-28th April 2023. It is hosted by Centre for Interprofessional Workplace Learning (TVEPS)

Conference theme: In pursuit of a sustainable future: creating and anchoring interprofessional- and sustainability mindsets in educations and in the work field.

Call for abstracts! Deadline January 15th
Topics include (but are not restricted to): Research results, innovative examples of interprofessional education, societal value of student learning, reducing inequality and increasing sustainability in interprofessional education and in society, educational facilitators as change agents.

Abstracts can be sent to tveps@uib.no

See webpage for more info

Courses offered at the Medical library, Autumn 2023

Courses offered at the Medical library, Autumn 2023:

  • Introduction to Endnote
  • Searching in PubMed and Embase
  • Introduction to systematic reviews
  • Literature studies for Bachelor and Master students (in Norwegian)

The courses are planned as a hybrid solution, with the option of attending either physically or online through Zoom. The courses are mainly for employees and PhD candidates at the Faculty of Medicine and for employees at Helse Bergen. Courses for students are normally given as a part of their study program. If that isn’t the case, they can attend these courses as well. The courses are free of charge, but registration is necessary for our planning.

Dates, registration and more information can be found on the library’s web pages:

Courses in English: https://www.uib.no/en/ub/128609/courses-and-guidance#courses-requiring-registration

Courses in Norwegian: https://www.uib.no/ub/126018/kurs-og-veiledning#kurs-med-p-melding

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Info meeting: European Research Infrastructures – how can you benefit

Dear all,

University of Bergen and Helse Bergen are members of four European research infrastructures in the field of translational medicine: BBMRIELIXIREATRISand ECRIN. The four research infrastructures work in parallel, providing complementary services to researchers in the field of biomedical sciences and support the development of personalized medicine and new treatments.

We invite researchers to learn more about each research infrastructure and how they can help you with a focus on services that support funding applications. The national coordinators of each research infrastructure are available for 1:1 meeting where you can ask specific questions regarding your project or get more information. Here is the registration page and agenda also included a QR-code for the poster (registration). Enclosed is the invitation.

Invitation to all PhDs and Postdocs: Present your work at the SDG Conference 2023

Dear PhDs and postdoctoral researchers,

It is our pleasure to invite you to present your work at the upcoming SDG Conference 2023!

The sixth SDG Conference Bergen will take place 8-10 February 2023 with the theme “A just transformation to a sustainable future” (see SDG Conference Bergen | University of Bergen (uib.no) for details). This fully digital conference provides new opportunities to present emerging and important research by motivated PhD students and postdoctoral researchers addressing the conference themes. We therefore invite all PhDs and postdoctoral researchers that are interested to present a videorecorded poster on your research and how it relates to the theme of the upcoming conference.

The deadline for submitting a two-minute videorecorded poster is 31 January, 2023.

For more information on details on how to record your contribution and practical information regarding submitting, please see attached pdf flyer with information. Your poster videos will be showcased in the conference platform and available for all digital participants to view.

This is a great opportunity to share your research with a global audience and we hope to see your presentation at the conference!

Want to attend the conference? Register here!

Invitation to SDG Conference Bergen 2023

SDG Conference Bergen 2023:
A just transformation to a sustainable future

8–10 February 2023

In order to succeed with a sustainable transformation of our societies we must face the grand challenges of our time. How can we ensure that this transformation is just and leaves no one behind?

The 6th annual SDG Conference Bergen will tackle such fundamental challenges to the 2030 Agenda, looking at how to reduce the pressure on planetary boundaries while ensuring human rights, peace and security, sustenance, health and education, and other social prerequisites for a good life.

The conference will include speakers from around the world with representation from academia, government, civil society, industry, and more.

Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre will open the conference.

Keynotes include:

·  Dan Kammen, University of California, Berkley, and former Environmental Envoy for the U.S. State Department

·  Mahmood Mamdani, Professor of Government at Columbia University and former Executive Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research

·  Katja Hujo, Development economist and social policy expert at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

Conference participation is digital and free of charge!

Programme / Registration

ECRIN Webinar: Adopting Best Practices in Personalized Medicine Research

ECRIN Webinar: Adopting Best Practices in Personalized Medicine Research

Join this ECRIN webinar to learn how the PERMIT project and its recommendations can support best practice in personalized medicine!. When: Friday, 16 December, 3-5 PM (CET) Register here. New high-throughput technologies and the digital revolution are offering incredible advantages for researchers…and medical research is evolving rapidly in response.

www.eosc-life.eu

(Norsk) Mohn Research Center for Regenerative Medicine (MRCRM) minisymposium

Mohn Research Center for Regenerative Medicine (MRCRM) welcomes all students, faculty and staff to the Mini symposium on Wednesday 7th of December.

The afternoon starts at 11 am with a lunch, and then there are talks from 11.30 am to 2 pm. Both PIs and junior scientists present very interesting work, within the wide range of regenerative medicine.

At 2 pm there will also be an official opening ceremony of the Ex-vivo Facility, the clean room facility where stem cell and advanced cell therapy products for Helse Vest will be produced.

The full program, time, place and abstracts can be found here: MRCRM Mini Symposium – Helse Bergen (helse-bergen.no)

Welcome!

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European Innovation Council online Info Day – Work Programme 2023 – 13 December 2022

The European Innovation Council Work Programme 2023 will be presented in this full-day online event on 13 December 2022 dedicated to potential applicants, together with an overview of what has already been achieved under the previous work programmes.

https://eic.ec.europa.eu/events/european-innovation-council-online-info-day-work-programme-2023-13-december-2022-2022-12-13_en

MSCA Staff Exchanges – Webinar

The MSCA staff exchange action funds short-term international and inter-sectoral exchanges of staff members involved in research and innovation activities of participating organisations. The aim is to develop sustainable collaborative projects between different organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors, based in Europe and beyond.

The webinar wil be held on 14 December 09:30 – 11:00, and with contribution from the Research Executive Agency (REA) and a testimony from SINTEF, who is work package leader in the project “DISCO2 STORE”. The call itself has a deadline on 8. March 2023.

Why take part in the webinar? Well for one, the success rates have been encouraging at 25ish %. The action is completely bottom-up and open to all disciplines, and is mainly focused on the mobility and the transfer of knowledge. The diversity in projects is big, and although traditionally dominated by projects within the realms of the engineering panel, projects from the SSH and life sciences are most welcome. This scheme simply allows for fruitful collaborations with colleagues in other sectors and parts of the world.

Time/Place:  14 Dec 09:30 – 11:00; Digital: Live streaming, video recording will be available

Register here: https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/events/2022/msca-staff-exchanges-se–webinar-on-the-call-for-2022/

CCBIO junior symposium

We are happy to welcome you all to the upcoming CCBIO Junior Scientist Symposium, December 8th, 2022. This seminar series is a perfect place to meet and interact with other young scientists. We anticipate that the discussions will be as lively and interesting as the October Symposium. We are very happy to announce that Professor Camilla Krakstad at CCBIO, will give a talk about her experiences with going abroad for research and give some early career advice. The program is varied and exiting spanning from treatment strategies for AML patients, phenotypic profiling of young women with breast cancer, immune and microenvironmental responses to cell death in glioblastoma and what emotional eating and changes in dietary patterns may do to the mind.

Please register within December 6th at 11.00.

(Norsk) Hvordan få gullet ut av helsedata?

Time and location: 8. desember 2022 kl. 10:00 at Eitri Medical Incubator, Haukelandsbakken 31

The University of Bergen, the Institute of Public Health, Norce, Eitri and The Life Science Cluster​ welcome you to a seminar on safe storage of third-party data in research projects.

Do you work with legal issues at hospitals or universities, or are you involved in research projects yourself? 

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UiB Ferd Christmas 2022: Of course you would never publish in a predatory journal…or would you?

UiB Ferd Career Centre’s first Christmas lecture ever, is 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.

08.12.2022 – 14.00–16.00

Seminarrom E, Studensenteret, Parkveien 1

https://www.uib.no/en/ferd/158170/uib-ferd-christmas-2022-course-you-would-never-publish-predatory-journalor-would-you

Seminar: Senter for ernæring

Senter for ernæring har gleden av å invitere til et nytt seminar i vår seminarrekke. Serien tar opp sentrale utfordringer innen ernæring og helse.

Tittel: Patient microbiota modulation by fecal transplantation
Foreleser: W. Florian Fricke, professor, University of Hohenheim, Tyskland
Moderator: Simon Dankel
Tid: Torsdag 1. desember 2022 kl. 14.30-15.30
Sted: Aud. 2, BB-bygget / Zoom

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ERC Proposal Reading Days open for registration

We have scheduled a Reading Day in Stavanger on Nov 30th, Bergen on Dec 7th and at Lysaker (Oslo) Dec 13th. We are planning at Day at UiO in the beginning of January.

Conditions for the Reading Days

  • Only by preregistration
  • You must sign Declaration of Confidentiality
  • Photocopying or photos of the applications are not allowed
  • Applications cannot be taken out of the reading room

Who can participate

The Reading Days are only open for researchers at Norwegian institutions (universities, university colleges, research institutes etc.) and for EU-advisers who are employed by Norwegian institutions. Please use your institutional e-mail address when you register.

https://forskningsradet.pameldingssystem.no/erc-proposal-reading-day

Upcoming events at the International Centre

Tax seminar
Sign up and join us for an online information meeting regarding paying tax in Norway.

This is useful if you are moving to Norway, shifting between Norway and other working countries, or working from abroad. We will have this seminar 2 Fridays per month, from 11.00 to 11.30. The next seminar will be on November 11th. In the registration form you can choose which date you want to sign up to. Read more here

Meet and Greet
All international employees are welcome to join us at the International Centre for a Meet and Greet to get to know each other and the International Centre. The Meet and Greet will take place on Tuesday 22nd of November from 15:30 to 18:30. We will arrange some food for everyone, so please sign up in good time. We have reserved seminar room C, at the Student Centre, and the pizza will arrive around 16:00. Further instructions will be sent to you by email the day before the event. We look forward to seeing you there! You can sign up here

Introduction course
This course is step 2 of our introductory seminars for new international employees. The course will take place on December 1st from 13.00 to 15.30 and it will be online. You can sign up here. Please complete step 1 (short e-learning course