Category Archives: Seminars and conferences

European Commission’s Horizon Results Platform – A Value Proposition

European Commission’s Horizon Results Platform – A Value Proposition

Join us on 18th Nov 2022 from 11:30 am – 12:00 pm CET to find out about the Horizon Results Platform: Learn about events, activities, partners and other opportunities to advance your results!

➢ Date and Time: 18th Nov 2022 from 11:30 am – 12:00 pm CET

➢ Come meet the team behind the Platform and find out:

  • How we promote your innovative solution(s) to third parties: the investor community, partners, policy makers and other actors that can help promote your results to the right audience. In addition to the close collaboration with the Horizon Results Booster, below are a few other examples of our activities in this respect:

O Investor e-pitching events with Business Angel Networks (EBAN.org, BAE.com)

O Collaboration with Solar Impulse Foundation & HRP on fast-tracking the labelling process; promotion of solutions to e-pitching events (e.g., upcoming Repowering the EU)

o Connecting with the Enterprise Europe Network to multiply your matchmaking possibilities

  • Why it is important to publish a video and full profile on HRP, and that you update your profile whenever relevant.
  • How HRP TV can inspire your Dissemination & Exploitation (D&E) plans, offering guidance and links to experts or other actors who can help you achieve your valorisation goals (e.g., angel investors, corporates, key stakeholders). You can have a look at how the HRP helped a company get traction here.
  • Get insights as to what’s coming up:

➢Meeting link https://ecconf.webex.com/ecconf/j.php?MTID=m6dc6fe03b0b5601fbe19a5389bd03c88

➢ Meeting number:2743 544 2333

➢ Meeting password: eyX34TC3fT

➢If any questions, or if issues with Webex the day of the meeting, please contact us at: EC-HORIZON-RESULTS-PLATFORM@ec.europa.eu

Mingle lunch with DIPS at Eitri?

Mingle lunch with DIPS at Eitri?

Date: Monday, November 14

Time: 11:00 – 13:00 (Lunch is served between 11:00 and 13:00, but DIPS will be available for a pleasant e-health chat between 10:00 to 15:00.)

Where: Eitri at Haukeland (Haukelandsbakken 31)

We have the pleasure of welcoming you to a casual mingle lunch with DIPS.

Being part of the innovative startup environment at Eitri is important to DIPS. Innovation, agile collaboration across health levels and clinical value are strong drivers in dips business philosophy.

In addition to meeting key resources from DIPS, you will hear a little more about their most important focus areas, both in the Western Norway Regional Health Authority, but also in the other regions in South-East and North. DIPS is also investing heavily in the innovation platform OpenDIPS, where we facilitate innovation via partners, as an important element in delivering unique customer value.

Take the opportunity for a casual mingle lunch!

(Norsk) Join us for mingling and lunch with DIPS at Eitri

Date: Monday, November 14

Time: 11:00 – 13:00 (Lunch is served between 11:00 and 13:00, but DIPS will be available for a pleasant e-health chat between 10:00 to 15:00.)

Where: Eitri at Haukeland (Haukelandsbakken 31)

We have the pleasure of welcoming you to a casual mingle lunch with DIPS.

Being part of the innovative startup environment at Eitri is important to DIPS. Innovation, agile collaboration across health levels and clinical value are strong drivers in dips business philosophy.

In addition to meeting key resources from DIPS, you will hear a little more about their most important focus areas, both in the Western Norway Regional Health Authority, but also in the other regions in South-East and North. DIPS is also investing heavily in the innovation platform OpenDIPS, where we facilitate innovation via partners, as an important element in delivering unique customer value.

Take the opportunity for a casual mingle lunch

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(Norsk) Building your next EU proposal within AI & Cancer: tips and funding opportunities

AI & cancer: join us on November 22nd to get tips on how to build a successful EU proposal and hear about upcoming funding opportunities!

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Yuichi Mori, Associate Professor at UiO and recipient of a prestigious EU grant under Horizon Europe, who will share his experience on developing a successful project. During the seminar, you will also hear about upcoming calls to be launched in 2023, from the National Contact Points at the Norwegian Research Council.

Stay for lunch to meet the speakers and network with other participants!

Registration and full program: Building your next EU proposal within AI & Cancer – Tips and funding opportunities

When: Tuesday, 22nd November 9.45-13.00

Where: Oslo Cancer Cluster Innovation Park / hybrid livestream available

Organizers: This seminar is supported by Oslo Cancer Cluster, The Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium and The Norwegian Research Council.

Lecture by Anna Blom: Cytoprotective roles of cytosolic forms of C3

Cytoprotective roles of cytosolic forms of C3

9th November 2022
BBB, Auditorium 4, 12:00

About prof. Blom’s research

Anna Blom received basic education in biochemistry and molecular biology from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Her PhD studies in medical and physiological chemistry were focused on bikunin-containing proteins, plasma protease inhibitors also involved in organisation of extracellular matrix. After defending PhD thesis in Uppsala in 1997 she moved to Lund University for a postdoctoral training with Prof. Dahlbäck who is expert translational coagulation researcher. Supported by long-term funding for salary from Swedish Research Council she established independent research group focused on studies of the complement system, a crucial part of innate immunity. In 2005 she was appointed a full professor of medical protein chemistry at Lund University. She has contributed significantly to understanding the role of complement in various pathologies such as infections, rheumatic diseases, cancer and immune deficiencies. Most recently she showed a role of complement in diabetes and contributed to discovery of a novel field of intracellular complement. Her research was recognized by award of large grants such as Wallenberg Scholar from the Wallenberg Foundation (Sweden) and Distinguished Investigator within Endocrinology from the Novonordisk Foundation (Denmark).

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Plastic and plastic additives – impacts on human and environmental health

A kind reminder about the meeting “Plastic and plastic additives – impacts on human and environmental health” at Marineholmen Friday 11 November.

Registration deadline 1 November.

Programme and registration https://www.uib.no/en/plastics/157342/plastic-and-plastic-additives-–-impacts-human-and-environmental-health

Day Zero 2023: Call for workshop abstracts

SDG Conference Bergen invites you to submit an application to host an event as part of Day Zero of the SDG Conference Bergen, 8 February 2023. Apply by 18 November.

Day Zero is a free, all-digital day of events on the day before the SDG Conference Bergen. It is an opportunity to organise creative spaces (workshops, debates, exhibitions, etc.) presenting work of relevance to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). We invite a diverse audience to participate, whether you are a student or work in academia or research, civil society, non-profit, start-up company, corporation, or small business.

The topic of the SDG Conference Bergen 2023 is A just transformation to a sustainable future. Focusing on a sustainable transformation of societies to become safe and just for all entails thinking about the grand challenges of our time. These challenges have been put under pressure by recent and unprecedented events with impacts on a global scale, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, war, an energy- and food crisis, and several ecological disasters. How can we ensure that this transformation is a just transition leaving no one behind?

https://www.uib.no/en/sdgconference/157278/day-zero-2023-call-workshop-abstracts

Invitation to Attend Peder Sather Center 10 Year Anniversary Seminar

Time: 26 October, 18.00 – 21.00 (Norway time)
Place: Digital / UC Berkeley

The seminar program may be found here

Link to the digital version.

In 2012 eight Norwegian institutions joined forces and collaborated with UC Berkeley in establishing the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Studies. The primary mission of the center is to strengthen ongoing research collaborations and foster the development of new research collaborations between faculty at UC Berkeley and the participating Norwegian institutions.

Each year a Peder Sather Grant is awarded to promising collaborative projects between faculty at UC Berkeley and Norway – across all disciplines. The celebrations will consist of a series of presentations from researchers at the Center, followed by a joint lunch and dinner for our guests in Berkeley. This is a great opportunity to learn more about how to use the Peder Sather grants and get to know some of the researchers from UC Berkeley from various disciplines.

More information

Open Science Workshop

Collaborative reproducible science using version control

We are organizing a practical workshop focusing on Open Science and reproducibility in science projects.

This light-hearted workshop will cover practical exercises on:

  • Basics of version control (Git/GitHub)
  • Collaboration using branches and forks

Come and join us on a journey to become a scientist of the 21st century!

Aimed at: PhD students (but everyone is welcome)
When: 24. November (13 – 16h) and 25. November (9 – 12h)
Where: Biologen Blokk A K1+K2
Please sign up here: https://bit.ly/OSW-survey ! Deadline is 20. November 2022

How to prepare: You need to have R (v 4.0. or higher), RStudio (v 1.4 or higher), Git installed on your computer and a GitHub account. In addition, you need to link your GitHub repo to RStudio.
Tutorial for linking Github and RStudio: https://bit.ly/OSW_setup_tutorial
Troubleshooting: https://bit.ly/OSW_git_troubleshooting

For questions contact: Aud (aud.halbritter@uib.no) or Ondřej (ondrej.mottl@uib.no)

Lecture by Prof. Vivianne Malmström: Current understanding of T cells in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) – antigen specificities, repretoires, and effector functions

The Bergen Research School in Inflammation has the pleasure to invite you to a lecture by

Prof. Vivianne Malmström
Department of Medicine, Solna
Karolinska Institute

Current understanding of T cells in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) – antigen specificities, repretoires, and effector functions

26th October 2022
BBB, Auditorium 4, 12:00

More information here.

OPEN ACCESS WEEK 2022, 24.-28. October

As part of this year’s International Open Access Week, several Norwegian academic libraries present a number of events with topics related to open publishing, open science and data sharing. All events are digital and open to anyone interested.

As part of this year’s International Open Access Week, several Norwegian academic libraries present a number of events with topics related to open publishing, open science and data sharing. All events are digital and open to anyone interested.

Please follow the links for more information and connection details for each webinar.

https://www.uib.no/en/ub/155421/open-access-week-2022-24-28-october

Conference Will everything be fine?

Will everything be fine? The consequences of the pandemic for children and young people in the Nordic region

10/11/2022
11:00 – 15:30

NordForsk and the Research Council of Norway are inviting you to the conference “Will everything be fine? The consequences of the pandemic for children and young people in the Nordic region”.

The conference is free, and will will also be streamed online. Please note that conference will be held in Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Swedish and Danish).

https://www.nordforsk.org/events/2022/will-everything-be-fine-consequences-pandemic-children-and-young-people-nordic-region

MOLBIO seminar series

MOLBIO seminar series starts next week. The seminars will be held in a hybrid model: digital on Zoom and physical attendance in the seminar room in the 4th floor “incubator” (Høyteknologisenteret https://www.uib.no/bio/kart).

The seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 09.15 am

  1. October: Mowgli Dandamudi (PhD student, Timothy Lynagh Group, Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology)

Title: “Uncovering a broader FMRFamide-gated sodium channel family and discovering determinants of peptide sensitivity”

Chairperson: Fabian Rentzsch

More information Molecular Biology Division | University of Bergen (uib.no)

If you want to receive seminar invitations directly, please send an email to Sandra Ninzima (Sandra.Ninzima@uib.no)

Seminar/webinar at Center for research on heart disease in women

Time: 31.10.22 at 12-13 local time. Meeting room 8.1-8.2, in the Laboratory building.

Lecturer Professor Francisco Gómez Real, MD Ph.d:

“Research on Gender, Reproduction, and the Lungs – in one generation and across generations. Can we extrapolate this knowledge to the study of cardiovascular diseases?”

Real will first present evidence on gender differences in respiratory health with focus on asthma and lung function, second, on the relationships between respiratory health and sex-hormone related events, and finally, gender specific associations between risk factors in parents and obesity and respiratory health on offspring. Can we extrapolate from this research to the research of cardiovascular diseases, not just in one generation but across generations?

The seminar is hybrid and open to all.

https://www.uib.no/en/femaleheart/156956/research-gender-reproduction-and-lungs-one-generation-and-across-generations-can

Horizon Europe courses – Grant Week

In collaboration with the Research Council, courses will be offered in Bergen for everyone who works with Horizon Europe applications. The courses are scheduled for 10, 11 and 12 January.

Courses offered during “Grant Week” are also open to researchers and all courses will be level 1. Read more about Grant Week and the various courses here: https://www.forskningsradet.no/arrangementer/2022/horizon-europe-proposal-writing-focus-impact-10-12-okt/

Courses will be given by Europa Media. Registration occurs on the Research Council’s website, on a first come, first serve basis. (As the courses are open to everyone, also outside UiB, they are expected to fill up fast.)

Find the direct link to registration for Grant week in Bergen here: https://forskningsradet.pameldingssystem.no/grant-week-b-1-c-1-d-1. You can choose in the form which course you would like to attend:

B.1: Proposal Development
C.1: Research and Innovation Project Management; the first steps
D.1: Basic Finance and Budgeting in Horizon Europe