HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01-01

Deadline 5 Feb 2025

MSCA Staff Exchanges involve organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors (including SMEs) from across the globe.

Support is provided for international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary mobility of R&I staff, leading to knowledge transfer between participating organisations.

Staff exchanges fund 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. Exchanged staff benefit from new knowledge, skills and career development perspectives, while participating organisations increase their research and innovation capacities.

Success rate in the 2023 call was approximately 30%.

https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-staff-exchanges-2024

K2 congratulates Professor Kurt Hanevik and partners in Ethiopia and Mozambique on the grant from the EU EDCTP3. The project Impact of a cryptosporidiosis point-of-care test-and-treat strategy in children with diarrhea (CryptoT&T) started this week.

Cryptosporidium is a parasite causing severe diarrhea, especially in young children in low- and middle-income countries, leading to many deaths and long-term health issues. CryptoT&T aims to test a new diagnostic method using LED microscopy to quickly and accurately detect the infection, allowing for timely treatment. The goal is to reduce the duration of illness and improve treatment for children with Cryptosporidium infection in two low-income countries as well as evaluate the cost-benefits of diagnostics and treatment, aligning with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and WHO goals.

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101159438

On Tuesday, January 21st, from 11:00 to 14:00, the MoBa study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health will have a stand on the 3rd floor!

MoBa is one of the world’s largest health studies with a total of 285,000 participants. Maybe you are one of them?

Visit our stand to: ✔️ Learn about exciting research findings ✔️ Meet MoBa researchers and participants ✔️ Explore research opportunities ✔️ Chance to win a prize

You can find the stand by the large auditorium/cafeteria from 11:00 – Hope to see you there!

International Centre together with the Occupational Health services, IT-department, and the division of Research and Innovation is hosting a mobility seminar for you who are planning a research stay abroad.

The topics that will be covered:

• Health and vaccinations
• IT security
• Social security affiliation outside
• Norway Health rights abroad
• Taxation Insurance
• Change of address
• Personal security
• Are you traveling with family?
• Financing possibilities

About the seminar:

Time: 12.02.2025 12.00-15.30

Location: zoom

The seminar will be in English. You will receive a link to the zoom seminar when you are registered and you will receive a reminder on email.

Click here to go to the registration form

UiB Ferd is planning to organize career days for early-stage researchers affiliated with UiB. The event will take place from April 8th to 10th, 2025.

The current plan is to spread the activities across the campus, ensuring that everyone in the target group has easy access to one or more events.

• We also encourage staff who are not themselves in the “early-stage researcher” target group but work with tasks related to early-stage researchers to participate in the event.
• To best support and contribute to the development of our research talents, we must work together to build good, healthy, and inspiring environments where early-career researchers can thrive and flourish.

Ferd Career Center hopes that faculties, departments, and centers will also engage in the career days with their own events and activities during this period.

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Cancer researchers can apply for project funding from Foundation Dam. In addition to researcher positions, support for research in line with the purpose of the program can be applied for.

The application is sent to the Norwegian Cancer Society, which mediates applications for funds to Foundation Dam.

The application deadline for sketches is Friday 31st of January 2025 at 13.00.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Read more | Apply for funding (both in Norwegian)

NB!  Remember to register your application at K2 as well: Varsel om søknad om ekstern finansiering / Intention to apply for external funding

Only available in Norwegian.

Welcome to a spectacular 3D light show at the University Museum

To mark our 200th anniversary, you are invited to a spectacular 3D light show that will show our history on the facade of the University Museum.

The light show, one of the largest of its kind in Norway, lasts approximately 15 minutes and is suitable for both young and old.

• Date: 24 and 25 January (multiple screenings each evening)
• Location: Outdoors at Muséplass

The museum will be open, and Godt Brød will be selling hot drinks and buns.

Find more information on uib.no

Bring your family and friends for an unforgettable experience!

With best regards,
Margareth Hagen
rector

The Utrecht Network Young Researcher’s Grant aims to enhance support for students and staff, as well as promote increased mobility among the Network’s institutions.

Within the framework of the Young Researcher’s Grant, up to 20 scholarships of €1,200 each will be offered for short-term mobility. Priority will be given to researchers at the PhD level, particularly those who may not be eligible for other scholarship programmes such as ERASMUS+.

This grant is intended for self-organized mobility at one of the Utrecht Network partner universities. Please refer to the members section for an overview of all member institutions. Note that the host institution cannot be in the same country as the institution in which students are enrolled.

While the grant is not limited to thesis research at the master’s or PhD level, students are allowed to take courses as well. However, priority will be given to ‘research-only’ students.

As the study/research period, including the application, is self-organized, students are expected to explore possible research areas at the university to which they apply and find a supervisor by themselves. While the International Relations Office may offer assistance in finding a supervisor, however it is considered a part of the student’s project and is expected to be carried out by the student.

Prerequisites:

Minimum length of stay 4 weeks (mobility is not restricted to semesters, but may also take place during the holidays)

https://utrecht-network.org/activities/young-researchers-grant/

Send the application scheme and attachments to  kristin.skogedal@uib.no latest 20 February 2025

Grants for Health and Care Services are part of the grant scheme through the tripartite industry program for competence development. The grant in this announcement will cover the development and ongoing implementation of competence enhancement offers from 2025 to November 2027.

Application deadline: March 19, 2025, at 3:00 PM

https://hkdir.no/utlysninger-og-tilskudd/tilskot-til-kompetanseutvikling-i-helse-og-omsorgstenestene-for-2025-2027

Applicant Seminar for Grants in the Industry Program – Health and Care Services

Date and Time: January 23, 2025, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

https://hkdir.no/arrangementer/sokarseminar-for-tilskot-i-bransjeprogram-helse-og-omsorgstenestene

The Innovation and eHealth Group will create a clear map showing who can help you move forward with an idea!

The goal is to make resources easily accessible, strengthen collaboration across sectors and with the emerging business community, and contribute to health innovations that provide value for residents, healthcare professionals, academia, and businesses.

Join us for Alreklunsj on Wednesday, February 5th from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM in the cafeteria, Årstadveien 17, where we will showcase the innovation map and encourage cluster partners to promote it within their organizations and student communities.

https://alrekhelseklynge.no/arrangementer/faglunsj-lansering-av-innovasjonskartet/

The library offers the following courses: 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. The courses are held either physically at the library or online via Zoom.

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

Date and time, 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

Overview of all courses (Norwegian or English): https://www.uib.no/ub/126018/kurs-og-veiledning#kurs-med-p-melding

Short descriptions:

• Searching in PubMed and Embase: Everyone can use PubMed! However, with some extra knowledge you may search more efficiently. In the course we demonstrate the use of subject headings MeSH, and the use of filters for quick limiting to clinical queries (like diagnostic studies, or intervention studies). Embase is another important medical database which covers several different journals than PubMed/Medline. Therefore, Embase is a valuable supplement to PubMed, if you want to get a better overview over the literature within your field.
• Introduction to EndNote: EndNote is a tool for managing references. The course covers how to build your own EndNote library, how to use references from EndNote in the writing process with Word, formatting the text and generating literature lists.. Other functionalities like manually adding references, grouping, removing duplicates, and importing full text will also be covered.
• Introduction to Zotero: This introductory course to Zotero should allow you to collect references by a variety of means and generate citations as well as reference lists. It covers: make a collection, import references from medical databases, manual input and to use the software for citation in a word processor (WORD or Google Docs).
• Introduction to systematic reviews: In this course we inform about common types of reviews, and the role of the library in the different phases of the work with a systematic review. We give an  overview over the process of doing a systematic review: write a protocol, prepare the searches, data management, quality appraisal, and guidelines for reporting.
• Literature studies for Bachelor and Master students (in Norwegian): This course is for students who chose literature study as their bachelor- or master thesis, and have not yet be offered a course as part of their study program. We teach about the process in a literature study. The course covers preparational work before literature searching, how to manage and work with the search results, and how to document the methods used.

Best,
Library of Medicine, BBB

BCEPS is proud to announce a free 2-week online course on priority setting in health, led by Kjell Arne Johansson and featuring a range of international expert lecturers on the topic!

The participants will learn the basic methods for priority setting in health, with an emphasis on how to evaluate equity in access to health services and fairness in distributions of health outcomes, and to integrate tools for equity concerns and health maximization.

The course is divided into two parts:

Part 1: Will cover theoretical concepts of UHC, ethics, equity and fairness as well as health maximization, and how they are applied in global and national health care priority settings.

Part 2: Will cover hands-on exercises on burden of disease, cost-effectiveness, and use of FairChoices DCP Analytic Tool

https://www4.uib.no/en/courses/bceps300