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Dear all,

It’s time for something more pleasant than just talking about negative numbers and the difficult economic situation: Congratulations to Bjørn Tore Gjertsen on receiving the Helse Vest research award!

And now there are more opportunities to nominate someone you know for an award:

The Meltzer Fund has announced three different awards with a deadline of December 1st.

Meltzer’s Prize for Outstanding Research

The prize is awarded to a researcher or a research group that has distinguished itself through outstanding research. The prize winner must be nationally leading in their field and, if the field exists in other countries, also be well recognized by leading international academic communities. Researchers who are nominated must be permanently employed at UiB.

Meltzer’s Prize for Young Researchers

Up to two prizes can be awarded annually for outstanding scientific work carried out by young researchers. In awarding the prize, particular emphasis will be placed on the researcher’s independence and ability to innovate. Emphasis will also be placed on whether the relevant research contributions appear particularly outstanding or promising, assessed based on the researcher’s age, the nature of the research project, and the research traditions in the relevant field. Researchers who are nominated must be employed at the University of Bergen at the time of nomination. The prize winner must not be over 40 years old in the award year. Researchers who have had parental leave and/or been on sick leave for a period can have this time deducted from the age requirement (relevant documentation must be attached to the nomination).

Meltzer’s Prize for Outstanding Research Communication

The prize for outstanding research communication is awarded for particularly outstanding communication of research. Researchers who are nominated must be permanently employed at UiB. The proposer must justify the nomination based on the candidate’s contribution to the university fulfilling its task of spreading information about research and the importance of research for society.

And the chairman of the board of the Consul Søren Falch and ophthalmologist Sigurd Falch’s fund for medical science, Per Bakke, has requested proposals for the Falch Lecture 2025 with a deadline of December 8th. Here, generally recognized researchers at Nobel Prize level or very high international level will be invited to give a guest lecture and/or seminar at the Faculty of Medicine.

So don’t wait to submit your proposals!

Have a great weekend!

Silke

(Norsk) Det medisinske fakultet

The Faculty of Medicine

ANNOUNCEMENT – DEADLINE 8/12 2024

Proposals for the Falch Lecture 2025

The academic communities at the institutes are hereby invited to submit proposals for the Falch Lecture 2025.

The framework for the award is NOK 40,000 to cover fees and travel and accommodation expenses. A cost estimate should be attached to the application. Multiple awards may be possible.

Guidelines for the Falch Lecture

  1. The proposer is the Board, which can invite generally recognized researchers at Nobel Prize level or very high international level to give a guest lecture and/or seminar at the Faculty of Medicine.
  2. The Board can invite employees to submit proposals and document their research efforts. Criteria may include publication in prestigious scientific journals, international awards, leadership roles in significant and active international scientific associations and conferences.
  3. The Falch lecturer should preferably have collaborated with or contributed in some way to the research activities at the Faculty of Medicine. However, this is not a requirement to propose a candidate.
  4. The Falch Lecture should preferably take place with the physical presence of the lecturer but can also be conducted via digital media.
  5. The Falch lecturer will be awarded a diploma to mark the event.

Proposals should be sent to okonomi@med.uib.no by 8/12 2024 and will be reviewed by the Board of the Consul Søren Falch and Ophthalmologist Sigurd Falch’s Fund for Medical Science.

Chairman
Per Bakke
Dean

Are Sandbakken will give the Aarebrot lecture in 2025

This will be the biggest stunt of my life! The professor of chamber music at the Norwegian Academy of Music is looking forward to giving next year’s Aarebrot lecture in the University Hall. He will have music students from the Grieg Academy with him on stage.

For more information, read the rest of the case here:

World Diabetes Day is next week!

Event Details:

Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 14:30 – 19:00
Location: Glasblokkene Block 2, 1st Floor, Haukelandsbakken, 5021 Bergen.

Program for the Day:

14:30 – 15:00 Opening and Food:

  • Pål R. Njølstad (Director, Mohn Center for Diabetes Precision Medicine)
  • Per Sigvald Bakke (Dean, Faculty of Medicine, UiB)
  • Magne Juuhl (Deputy Director, BUS, Helse Bergen)
  • Nicholas Knag Nunn (Managing Director, Trond Mohn Foundation)
  • Karoline Rørtveit Thorbjørnsen (Leader, Diabetes Association Bergen)

15:00 – 17:00 Lectures:

  • Young Researcher – “Introduction to Mohn Center for Diabetes Precision Medicine”
  • Nicholas Carr – “Parent Groups Can Strengthen Interaction with Youth”
  • Simon Dankel – “Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolism, and Nutrition”
  • Cecilie Roksvåg – “Interview: Life as a Patient with MODY Diabetes, Mother of Three Children with MODY, and Leader of the Diabetes Association”
  • Agnethe Lund – “What is Gestational Diabetes?”
  • Heiko Bratke – “Diabetes Technology and Systematic Quality Improvement Dramatically Improve Outcomes for Children with Diabetes”

17:00 – 19:00 – Laboratory Tour + Possible Discussion with Researchers

More information regarding directions will be provided next week. If you have any questions about the day, please contact the committee via the following emails:

  • Ulrik Larsen: larsen@uib.no
  • Miguel Angel Juarez Garzon: garzon@uib.no
  • Laura Kind: kind@uib.no

 

Climate Health Initiative (CHI) webinar #2

We are happy to welcome Håvard Haarstad, professor of human geography to the 2nd webinar in the Climate Health Initiative.

His main research focus is social change towards sustainability, particularly in relation to climate. Haarstad is interested in how we can transform cities and urban life – materially, socially and culturally – in order to meet the climate and sustainability challenges that face us.

He is also founding director for the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, an interdisciplinary research centre based at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Bergen.

Date: November 22
Time: 12:00-12:40

https://www.uib.no/en/pandemic/173824/climate-health-initiative-chi-webinar-2

Joint Lunch for Academic Staff

Get to know your colleagues! The faculty leadership invites all academic staff, from PhD candidates to professors, to a joint lunch on Wednesday, November 6th, at 11:30 in EITRI. The purpose is simply to meet across disciplines and departments to get to know each other better. Sandwiches will be served. No registration is needed.

This autumn, joint lunch will also be organized on 11/12, at 11:30 in EITRI.

Welcome!

Best wishes
Per

The 2024 Holberg Debate

The Holberg Prize has the pleasure of inviting everyone to attend the 2024 Holberg Debate at the University Aula, on Sunday 15th December, 14:00 – 16:45.

The debate is entitled ‘Is the West in Decline?”. The panel will discuss how the political, economic and social problems facing the West will impact the future of democracy, as well as global stability.

In the panel:

  • Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education at the American University in Washington, DC, where she is also the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). Dr. Miller-Idriss regularly testifies before the U.S. Congress and briefs policy, security, education and intelligence agencies in the U.S., the United Nations, and other countries on trends in domestic violent extremism and strategies for prevention and disengagement. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of seven books, including Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right (Princeton University Press, 2022). Her next book is focused on how misogyny fuels mass violence and will be published by Princeton University Press in 2025.
  • Yanis Varoufakis is professor of economics at the University of Athens. He leads MeRA25 in Greece and is co-founder of the pan-European movement DiEM25 as well as the Progressive International. An academic economist who served as Greece’s Finance Minister in 2015, Varoufakis is the author of several best-selling books including Technofeudalism: What killed capitalism (Penguin 2023), Another Now (Penguin 2020), Adults in the Room (Penguin 2017), Talking to my Daughter (Penguin 2017), And the Week Suffer What They Must? (Penguin 2016), and The Globlal Minotaur (Zed Books 2011).
  • Konstantin Kisin is an author, comedian, satirist, social commentator and host of TRIGGERnometry, which is branded as a free speech YouTube show and podcast, based on open, fact-based discussion of important and controversial issues. In his book An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West (2022), as well as in his speeches and podcasts, Kisin discusses topics such as tolerance, freedom of speech, cancel culture, immigration and multiculturalism, as well as what opportunities and values the West represents. He has also spoken and written extensively about the war in Ukraine.

The event will be moderated by Sarah Montague, who is a British journalist and presenter. Since 1997, she has presented many of the BBC’s most popular radio and TV programmes, including HARDtalk, Today and The World at One.

Please see the Holberg Prize website for more information on the event.

You may register for the event here (in-person attendance), but please note that seating will be assigned on a first come, first serve bases and is thus not guaranteed.

We encourage everyone to be early. You can also follow our Facebook event page. We invite everyone to submit questions for the panel here.

Previous instalments of the Holberg Debate can be found here.

The 2025 Announcement and Holberg Week.

The Announcement of the 2025 Holberg Laureate and Nils Klim Laureate will take place at the University Aula on 13th March, 2025 between 09:00 and 10:00

The 2025 Holberg Week will take place on 3rd – 6th June, with award ceremonies in Bergen and other events in Bergen and Oslo.

We ask everyone to note these dates and check our website for updates about the different events.

Nominations
Nominations for the 2026 Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize may now be submitted. The deadline is 15th June, 2025. Please see our website for more information.

Queries may be directed to: info@holbergprisen.no.

Kind regards,

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

 

Looking for partners and joining consortia

November 14, 09:00–11:00

This course will help you understand what type of partners to look for in Horizon Europe, whether you are proposing a collaborative project in Horizon Europe or just looking for a consortium to join.

You will learn what characterizes a winning consortium in Horizon Europe, and you will receive practical advice and tools that you can use when searching for project partners.

The course language is English, and the course is delivered by Europa Media.

https://www.forskningsradet.no/arrangementer/2024/heu-kurs-host-2024/a22222.3—looking-for-partners-and-joining-consortia-short-webinar/#msdynmkt_trackingcontext=a7d555c9-7b65-4bb5-b9bc-9c9b461943d9

MSCA Staff Exchanges

The MSCA Staff Exchanges is the most international and intersectoral initiative within Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA), promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing among academic and industrial organizations across borders through research projects that involve the mobility of researchers and staff.

Join us on 15 November 2024, for a web-based information session where the European Research Executive Agency (REA) will provide in-depth information about the key features of the Staff Exchanges Action and how to apply to our call for proposals.

https://research-innovation-community.ec.europa.eu/events/PawOrIj5HxQhifdCTBf5g/overview

 

Register for World Diabetes Day at Haukeland Hospital!

Join us for a family-friendly event to learn more about nutrition, diet, diabetes mechanisms, and how to prevent and treat diabetes. Includes an open house with presentations and tours of the laboratories. Free food and drinks.

Bring friends and family! Register today: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=17696810

Location: Haukeland sykehus, Glasblokkene (Barne- og ungdomsklinikken), Blokk 2, 1 etasje.

Program (Fully in Norwegian):

14:30 – 15:00 Åpning og mat:

Pål R. Njølstad (leder, PRECISE-DIA)

Per Sigvald Bakke (Dekan ved Det Medisinske Fakultet, UiB)

Magne Juuhl (Assisterende klinikkdirektør, BUS, Helse Bergen)

Karoline Rørtveit Thorbjørnsen (leder, Diabetes Forbundet Bergen)

15:00 – 17:00 Foredrag:

Ung forsker – «Introduksjon til Mohn Research Center for Diabetes Precision Medicine.»

Nicholas Carr – «Viktigheten av psykologi i diabetes – Pasientintervjuer»

Simon Dankel – «Type 2 diabetes, metabolisme og ernæring»

Cecilie Roksvåg – «Intervju: Livet som pasient med MODY diabetes, mor til tre barn med MODY og leder av Diabetesforbundet»

Agnethe Lund- «Hva er svangerskapsdiabetes?»

Heiko Bratke – «Diabetesteknologi og systematisk kvalitetsforbedring gir dramatisk bedring for barn med diabetes»

17:00 – 19:00 – Omvisning på laboratoriet

Register today: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=17696810