Join us for InLifeScience on October 30th!

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Dear member

We are excited to invite you and your colleagues to join InLifeScience 2024, our annual conference happening on October 30th at Forskningsparken. This year’s event will gather professionals from across the life science industry to discuss innovation, growth, and opportunities for collaboration, with a focus on shaping the future of life sciences together. You can explore the full program and register here.

As a valued member of The Life Science Cluster, you and your colleagues can attend at a reduced admission fee of 1000 NOK. We encourage you to share this invitation with your team so they can take advantage of this opportunity as well.

If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out. We look forward to seeing you and your team at InLifeScience 2024!

Best regards,
Benjamin Dyhre
Event and Communications Coordinator
The Life Science Cluster
+47 47 63 03 81
benjamin@tlsc.no

Expanded Monitoring Service for Clinical Studies in Helse Vest!

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The regional cooperation body for research and innovation decided in its meeting on November 24, 2023, to strengthen the monitoring service. New is that the offer is now extended to include clinical studies that are not subject to mandatory monitoring. It is now possible to order monitoring of studies with increased risk.

Monitoring of clinical studies ensures that they are conducted, documented, and reported in accordance with the protocol, GCP, regulatory requirements, and relevant legislation. Monitoring is mandatory in drug studies and studies on medical devices that are to be CE marked. For other interventional studies, monitoring is optional. Experience from the Norwait study suggests that more studies than today should be monitored.

All health trusts in Helse Vest can report the need for monitoring. A form has been prepared as a guide for the trusts’ assessment of whether monitoring should be carried out. The completed form with relevant study documents is received by the monitoring service, which then assesses whether the study meets the criteria for the new scheme. Studies will be prioritized in case of high demand. A monitoring plan tailored to the individual study will then be prepared.

There is no co-payment for monitoring under this scheme.

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Leader of the week

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Dear everyone,

For those who do not know me, my name is Svein Skeie, and I am the Research Director at Stavanger University Hospital (SUS) and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine/K2. My professional background includes specialties in internal medicine, geriatrics, and endocrinology. I am pleased to be part of the leadership team at K2, and it is natural for me to write a leader’s note from time to time.

At SUS, we are now well underway with Vestlandslegen – both with students and positions. It is a significant challenge to implement the study plan in the hospital. We are also building a new hospital (new SUS), where most of the somatic inpatient activities will move in November 2025. This also needs to be prepared for UiB. In the new hospital, UiB has about 1000m² of its own space, providing a much better starting point than we previously had for practice students (2015 plan). Alongside building the education, research activities will also be developed. Research has not been the main focus so far, but with more employees in part-time positions, new opportunities arise, also for colleagues employed in Bergen. The research opportunities at SUS are good, and increased collaboration can provide new research opportunities for the subjects under K2. In 2023, SUS and UiB had a total of 163 co-publications, showing that there is already significant activity.

Perhaps you have colleagues at SUS with whom it would be natural to collaborate more? Maybe you want to collaborate but are unsure how to establish it? If you need help finding your way into SUS, please feel free to contact me.

Have an excellent weekend!

Svein

Invitation to Participate in PhD Start-Up Phase Survey

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Dear PhD Candidate,
As part of the Program for University Pedagogy at the University of Bergen, we are conducting a survey to understand the experiences of PhD candidates in the start-up phase of their PhD period. You have been invited to participate in this survey because you are registered as a PhD student at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care or the Department of Clinical Science, Faculty of Medicine. The survey aims to gather insights into your experiences regarding the start-up phase of your PhD journey.

Consent
Participation in this survey is entirely voluntary. By beginning the survey, you are providing consent for your responses to be used in the study. Please note that your participation will remain anonymous, and we will not be able to identify you based on your answers. All data collected will be treated confidentially and deleted within one year. This study is registered in the System for Risk and Compliance, Processing of Personal Data in Research and Student Projects at University of Bergen (RETTE).

The web-based survey should take approximately 5 minutes to complete. Thank you for your time and valuable input!

To participate, please click on the link below:
https://svar.uib.no/LinkCollector?key=HW9DMFWQL29N

Contact information

For additional information, please feel free to contact the project group members:

NFR Calls for Proposals

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Research Project for Renewal

Research Project for Early Career

Collaboration Project to Address Societal and Business Challenges

The main deadline for research environments in 2025 is March 5th.

 

Climate Health Initiative Webinar Series:

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The Pandemic Centre is inviting all employees to the Climate Health Initiative (CHI) Webinar Series. As awareness of the deep and inevitable links between climate and health grows across Europe, Norway’s academic and research environments are increasingly collaborating to find solutions for this pressing challenge.

To foster knowledge-sharing and build future interdisciplinary collaborations, The Pandemic Centre invite researchers, educators, and students passionate about Climate-Health to join a sustainable journey through Norway’s hubs of knowledge.

Webinar Schedule:

Join the Pandemic Centre on the first Friday of each month from 12:00–12:40 in 2024.

  • October 18: Ernst Kristian Rødland, Norwegian Public Health Institute
  • November 22: TBD
  • December 13: Kristin Aunan, CICERO Center for International Climate Research

Those webinars are open to everyone! Please feel free to share this invitation within your network.

To participate, simply fill out the registration form and don’t forget to save the event to your calendar.

Bring your lunch, spark your curiosity, and join The Pandemic Centre digitally for these engaging discussions!

Lenke for program og påmelding: Climate Health Initiative (CHI) webinar #1 | Pandemisenteret | UiB

 

Comprehensive Plan to Increase Life Expectancy for People with Severe Mental Illnesses and/or Substance Abuse Problems

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The Norwegian Directorate of Health has been tasked by the Ministry of Health and Care Services to coordinate the work on a comprehensive plan to increase the life expectancy of people with mental illnesses and/or substance abuse problems. The deadline for this task is February 1, 2025. Additionally, the Directorate of Health has been asked to provide input on any measures proposed for funding in 2026 by November 1, 2024.

Meeting Time: December 3, 2024, from 10:00 to 12:00
Location: Digital
Registration Link: Påmelding til digitalt innspillsmøte 3. desember 2024 (office.com)
Registration Deadline: November 22, 2024

Please see the attached PDF file for more information.

innspillsmøte

Webinar | Research | 2025

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Join the Webinar on Research 2025

On Thursday, November 14th, from 08:30-09:30, the Dam Foundation invites you to a webinar about the research call for 2025.

The application forms will open the day after, and in the webinar, we will go through the new call, with a particular focus on the registered report initiative. There will also be opportunities to ask questions. satsningen på registrert rapport.

Are you planning to apply for research funding next year? Then we recommend setting aside an hour for the webinar.

https://dam.no/2024/10/17/bli-med-pa-webinar-om-forskning-2025/

 

Application for the Dam Foundation

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Evaluating Applications for the Dam Foundation

All applications submitted to the Dam Foundation are reviewed by dedicated expert committees. These consist of external professionals with a broad range of expertise.

We are now looking for engaged members for the expert committee in Helse.

Interested members can register themselves using this form: registrerer seg selv i dette skjemaet.

Vurdere søknader for Stiftelsen Dam?

Intelligent Bergen 2024

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Intelligent Bergen 2024

UiB AI invites you to the annual conference Intelligent Bergen on Friday, November 8th. The title of this year’s conference is “Artificial Intelligence – Collaboration and Competition.” 08.11.2024 – 09:00–16:00 Universitetsaulaen in Bergen

https://www.uib.no/ai/171299/intelligente-bergen-2024

 

This weeks edithorial

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Dear everyone,

today is the last day of autumn holiday (for those who have) which I will use to remind everyone that traditionally we have always used autumn to conduct the annual employee appraisals.

All employees with a main position at UiB must have employee appraisals. This also includes PhD candidates, and then it is important to remember that the conversation is not carried out by the supervisor. For employees with a part-time position (or extra employment as it is now called), the research group leader can agree with the employee that it is not necessary.

Employee appraisals are an important arena for clarifying performance expectations, providing mutual feedback and insight into each other’s work situation, and addressing the working environment and conditions at the workplace. For younger researchers in particular, it is important that career planning is included, and that basic pedagogical competence and teaching experience are something they should think about.

Since I am the new head of department, this time I will have employee appraisals with all permanently employed associate professors and professors in main position (at least 50%) in additon to research group leaders and core facility leaders.  According to my list, there will be 49 talks, so I hope that you understand that it will stretch over some time.

Head of Administration Mia Holmaas is responsible for the employee appraisals with employees in the administration.

Otherwise, the conduct of the employee appraisals is delegated to the research group leaders – again a reminder that all employees must belong to a research group. This is a process we are working on, Susanna has already sent out some questions to the research group leaders so that we can make sure that all employees actually receive an employee interview.

Have a great weekend!

Silke

Sabbatical in Denmark? Call for AIAS Visiting Fellowships

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Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus University offers a number of visiting fellowships to outstanding researchers from abroad who are looking for an opportunity to engage in the international and interdisciplinary research community of AIAS and to collaborate with the research environments at Aarhus University (AU).

Visiting fellows will have their daily office space at AIAS, and will have the opportunity to participate in the activities at AIAS and at the relevant research environments at AU. AIAS offers optimal office facilities, and a thriving international and interdisciplinary community with joint social and academic activities.

Application deadlines vary according to start date:

  • May 1, 2025 (noon): for visiting fellowships starting in the fall of 2025.
  • November 1, 2025 (noon): for visiting fellowships starting in the spring of 2026.

https://aias.au.dk/opportunities-at-aias/aias-visiting-fellowships