Working Environment Award 2025
Do you know of a person/group/unit that you believe has made a special contribution to the work environment?
Then you can nominate for the Working Environment Award for 2025.
The deadline is 31.01.2026.
PhD candidates at the University of Bergen now have the opportunity to test their communication skills in the international Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The competition challenges participants to present their research in just three minutes, with only one static slide as visual support, to a general audience.
Lipids build the membranes that surround the cell and separate its internal compartments from each other. This is what gives each compartment in the cell its own identity and makes normal cell function possible. For this system to work, lipids must constantly be transported precisely between different membranes. This is a process that scientists have long had limited understanding of.
Dear everyone,
Happy New Year! I hope everyone has had a few quiet days during the Christmas season and has started 2026 with new energy.
2026 will bring a number of changes, among other things, the financial officers from the faculty will move to the "PhD office" on the 8th floor of the lab building and be co-located with "our" financial officers (who are also employed at the faculty). This entails some relocation of office space for PhD candidates and postdocs, I apologize for the inconvenience this causes for those affected. Before the economists can move in, some rebuilding is required, but I hope that it does not take too long.
Let me also use this editorial to congratulate Professor Edvin Schei from IGS and his project group PROFMED (Medical Students' Professional Identity Formation During Practice in Hospitals), which was awarded the Western Norway Regional Health Authority's education award last night at the Western Norway Regional Health Authority's education conference. PROFMED aims to improve medical students' hospital placement learning, and support the development of a professional physician’s identity by: 1) systematically preparing students for workplace participation, and 2) educating the hospital physicians who interact with the students.
The project has been very successful, and the application of the knowledge from it will have a great effect on the successful completion of the hospital placement with many more students than before.
Have a really good weekend!
Silke
Friday waffle with Waffle Pitch at Eitri: Master's students in innovation and entrepreneurship in practice in spring 2026? HVL invites start-up companies, companies, institutions and clusters to apply.
Friday, January 9, 2026
13:00 14:00
Location: Eitri, Haukelandsbakken 31, 5021 Bergen
Principal Margareth Hagen is pleased to invite you – with a companion – to this year's Principal's Gala Concert with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 | Concert starts at 7:30 PM | Grieghallen
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The Library for Medicine offers courses with registration, for employees and fellows at the Faculty of Medicine and employees at Bergen Health. The courses are held on Zoom.
All holidays must be clarified with the immediate supervisor before applying for holidays in the self-service portal and entered in the comments field: "Holiday has been clarified with the immediate supervisor."
The research program at the Faculty of Medicine is currently recruiting students from the 2025 cohort for admission in the fall of 2026. The faculty encourages research communities to submit project proposals that are suitable for the research program, and reminds that the students are motivated, but often without previous research experience and therefore need close follow-up at the beginning.
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