The Cancer Society is showering UiB and Helse Bergen with funds this year. Oleksii Nikolaienko will use the money to learn more about who is at risk of getting cancer.

“It is great to receive this recognition that we are doing something people support,” says Oleksii Nikolaienko at the Mohn Cancer Research Laboratory at the Department of Clinical Science 2, UiB and Haukeland University Hospital.

He is leading one of a total of eight projects from Bergen that have received money from the Cancer Society in this year’s allocation. Five of the projects are owned and operated by the University of Bergen. In total, Helse Bergen and UiB are awarded 61 million NOK.

From K2, Professor Bjørn Tore Gjertsen is also receiving funds from the Cancer Society.

https://www.uib.no/med/174081/37-millioner-til-kreftforskning-ved-uib

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Please find our newsletter online by clicking on the image above or following this link: NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2024.

You can also find our previous newsletters in this link.

Wishing you all a wonderful day and please do not hesitate to contact us for any questions or queries you might have.

All the best from the Euraxess team at the International Centre.

There are a number of foundations with research and education at the University of Bergen as their statutory purposes. These foundations announce funds that both employees and students can apply for, and some of the foundations also have external applicants within their statutory purposes. The largest of these foundations is the L. Meltzer College Fund, and there are also about 25 other foundations from which funds can be applied for.

This portal provides an overview of the foundations from which it is possible to apply for funds. Information is provided about each foundation and its purpose, who can apply, and what can be applied for.

The application deadline for 2025 will be 01.12.2024.

Link to the portal: https://fond.app.uib.no/apex/f?p=182:1 (only available in Norwegian)

Best regards,
Kurt

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

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:

• https://www.uib.no/aktuelt/173961/are-sandbakken-skal-holde-aarebrotforelesningen-2025 (only available in Norwegian)

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

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

Please find attached the latest newsletter from the UiB Ferd Career Center for Early-Stage Researchers.

Important: Charm EU funding opportunities have a short deadline (November 15th). Don’t let the newsletter linger—open it today!

Regards from UiB Ferd

https://sway.cloud.microsoft/Dy0mflS6LDOQR1NN?ref=email

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 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 3^rd – 6^th 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 15^th June, 2025. Please see our website for more information.

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

Kind regards,

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen