UiB has announced funding for the Erasmus programme aimed at teaching exchange (link – In Norwegian only) and employee mobility for spring 2014 (link – In Norwegian only). Application deadline is February 15 for both announcements.
REK will have 9 meetings in 2014. Deadlines for the applications to REK are found here.
Novo Nordisk Founden has two announcements – the Novo Nordic Excellence Project for young researchers in endocrinology, and the Clinical Research Fellowship Program at Steno Diabetes Center
The Norwegian Cancer Society is cooperating with the Movember foundation to improve men’s health, especially in regard to prostate cancer. Application deadline is 23.01.2014.
In October 2014 two medical prizes will be awarded – Anders Jahres medical prize as reward for outstanding scientific work or research results within Nordic medicine, and Anders Jahres medical prize for young medical researchers in the Nordic countries.
The announcements are aimed at the recruitment of skilled national and international candidates. Click here for BFS announcement, and click here for BMFS announcement.
1. Jiri Mekyska, Signal Processing Laboratory, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Field: Non-invasive neurological disorders analysis by novel algorithms and data acquisition protocols, methods, tools and systems supporting neurologists, speech therapists and psychologists.
2. Katerina Ušelová, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Current trends in bioanalysis, namely protein purification and separation by isoelectric focusing (IEF), isoelectric trapping (IET) and OFFGEL, exemplified on e.g. insulin.
3. Marius Stefan, University Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iasi, Romania
Use of some metabolic derivatives from Artrhobacter nicotinovorans as novels neuroprotective drugs.
4. Jānis Smilga, Technology Transfer Office Expert in Promoting, Riga Stradins University, Latvia
“Vital tissue less traumatic high frequency alloy technology approach in clinical and field surgery” and development of living tissue welding technology.
The Center funds projects within all disciplines and has as its aim to promote collaboration between institutions in Norway and UC Berkeley. Click here for more information.
Technical and administrative staff may apply for staff exchange at the University of Helsinki in 2014. Click here for more information about the Erasmus programme (In Norwegian). Click here for more information about the staff exchange with the University of Helsinki . If you are interested you may contact Signe Knappskog (signe.knappskog@adm.uib.no)
The conference will take place in Tirana, Albania on December 12-14, 2013. Click here for more information (http://isforum.us/)
The Bergen Medical Research Foundation (BMFS) has granted 5 million kr each to 2 projects following the announcement «Research with starting point in registers, biobanks and larger, complex research infrastructure». One of the projects which received support was:
Utilizing the Mother and Child Cohort and the Medical Birth Registry for Better Health,
Project leader: Professor Pål Rasmus Njølstad, Department of Clinical Science / Children’s Hospital, Haukeland University Hospital
K2 News congratulates!