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UiB Service Development invites you to a conversation during Gnistuken 2025!

When the organization needs to change, new systems and strategies are not enough – we need to get people to choose to join in. What makes us choose new skills, new ways of working and new ways of collaborating? 

Registration can be found here: https://www.uib.no/tjenesteutvikling/179429/hvordan-f%C3%A5r-vi-ansatte-til-%C3%A5-velge-endring-%E2%80%93-ikke-bare-t%C3%A5le-den

The course will provide a basic understanding of economic concepts and how government finances and the UiB finances work and interact.

Basic understanding of the UiB economy (29.10 at 1200-1500)
The course will provide a basic understanding of economic concepts and how government finances and the UiB finances work and interact.

Accounting (03.11 at 0900-1200)
Introduction course in the chart of accounts, the reposting solution, the fixed asset register and period closing. Topic: The structure of the chart of accounts, activation and disposal in the fixed asset register, templates in the reposting solution and provision vouchers.

Salary and TOA (Employment and employment contract) (03.11 at 1200-1500)
TOA, Payroll and Reassignment. The course provides an introduction to payroll processes for economists and HR staff at faculty and departments.

Budget and financial management (10.11 at 0900-1200)
A general introduction to budgeting, forecasting and financial management of the overall economy at UiB. The collection shows tools and methods and how these are used at UiB

Purchasing (11.11 at 0900-1200)
How do we make purchases at UiB? The course contains an introduction to public procurement, and an introduction to the Need to Pay (BtB process). including the process around ordering and payment.

Payment request (13.11 at 1200-1500)
Introductory course in Receivables for payment. Topic: Basis for invoice, Customer, Invoicing and crediting from the project module or the customer and sales module, Payments, Follow-up of invoices that are not paid.

VAT (24.11 at 1200-1500)
Introductory course in handling VAT when buying and selling domestically/abroad.

Project Economics (25.11 at 0900-1200)
The course provides an overview of rules, concepts and the life cycle of the grant- and contract-funded project from project application to project completion.

Registration and more information can be found here: https://www.uib.no/foransatte/179986/grunnforst%C3%A5else-av-uib-%C3%B8konomien

"The IVIS Spectrum - More Than 2D Bioluminescence!"

The IVIS Spectrum is a powerful optical imaging system which can visualise bioluminescence and fluorescence. This allows the tracking of many disease processes longitudinally with extremely high sensitivity. 2D imaging of bioluminescent tumours is a very common and excellent tool for tracking tumour progression. However, the IVIS Spectrum is capable of much more than this.

This seminar will introduce some of the less well-known features and applications of the IVIS Spectrum, including 3D imaging, spectral unmixing, imaging of in vitro samples, plants, and chick embryo models.

Come and join this seminar, it is open to everyone.
Held by Jack Sharkey from Revvity.

Dr Jack Sharkey has been an application scientist as part of Revvity’s in vivo imaging team since 2021. He has approaching 10 years of experience in the field of preclinical imaging. His background lies in Pharmacology and Toxicology, with focus on novel biomarkers of organ injury, and regenerative medicine. Prior to this role at Revvity, Jack worked both as a postdoctoral researcher and technical manager at the Centre for Preclinical Imaging at the University of Liverpool.

Rebecca Jane Cox Brokstad, professor
Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen
Eitri (Haukelandsbakken 31)21. October 2025 11:30 – 15:00

From Bench to Backlash: The Vaccines Research Crisis
Vaccination is the most effective medical intervention and childhood vaccines have been used safely for decades saving millions of lives. Vaccination has resulted in elimination of smallpox and reduced wild type polio transmission to just two countries. The world health organisation estimates that measles vaccination alone averted more than 60 million deaths between 2000 and 2023. Yet in 2023 107500 measles deaths globally occurred due to lack of vaccination. Vaccination rates are falling and 10825 measles cases occurred in Europe in the last year, 83% in unvaccinated children. Eight children died from measles in the Romania, Netherlands, and France.

This lecture will reflect on how did we get here were vaccine preventable diseases that were close to eradication are once again claiming children’s lives.  

Pål Grønas Drange, Associate Professor
Department of Informatics, University of Bergen
Eitri (Haukelandsbakken 31)21. October 2025 11:30 – 15:00

AI is not the assistant you think it is
Artificial intelligence is often sold as a versatile assistant, but it automates only the easy part: typing words, not ensuring their truth. Large language models are being promoted to users who rarely understand their limits, and as they learn by error, the quality of our services, knowledge, and trust declines.

This talk examines real-world failures in journalism, government, law, and health care, and how LLMs now enable large-scale production of fake research.