The conference will take place in Tromsø on March 11-12, 2015. Overarching topic of the conference is “Tomorrows internationalization”. Deadline for signing up is December 18. For more information click here (in Norwegian).
The course will give an introduction on how to use ECOonline, the electronic chemical register for UiB.
Target group
Employees responsible for registering chemicals in the chemical register ECOonline.
Course contents
At UiB, the use and storage of all chemical- and biological agents should be risk assessed in the chemical register ECOonline, UiB’s electronical material database.
The course “The Chemical Register (ECOonline)” will give an introduction on how to use ECOonline. Participants will become familiar with the database, as well as learn how to create a user and location, in addition to registering data sheets in the database. The training will take place in a computer lab.
Time: Wednesday January 28, at 09:00-11:00
Place: Stein Rokkans hus
Sign up electronically by no later than December 15 via this link: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/index.php
NB: The course is given in Norwegian
We invite everyone to Lucia celebration on Friday December 12, 8:30 am in the open space area on the 2nd floor of the Laboratory Building.
This will be a cozy pre-Christmas event with nice colleagues.
Hope to see you there!
So we are in advent again, and many courses will have exams before the autumn semester comes to an end on 12.12.14. This is a busy time for both students, lecturers, censors and the academic administration. In addition, detailed planning of new curriculum for the school of medicine is ongoing. This issue was once again on the agenda at the Faculty Board meeting on 26.11.14. The framework for teaching and exams was approved. In the future curriculum there will be at most 19 hours of scheduled teaching activities every week, and there will be exams at the end of each semester covering the multi-disciplinary learning goals. In addition, at the end of 3rd and 6th year, a practical station exam (OSCE-exam) will take place. Each semester, a semester council responsible for teaching and exam activities will be established, and K2 will be responsible for three of these semester councils, as well as for final exams on the 6th study year. In order for the semester councils to have as strong a foundation as possible for its important work, it is now time for the heads of the academic sections, in coordination with people in charge of courses and topics, to gather lecturers and plan when and how teaching will be done of the individual topics in the new curriculum. A detailed plan for distribution of study credits between courses in different semesters is the starting point for this important work. The new curriculum will be implemented for first-year students from autumn 2015 and onwards, and in autumn 2016 a new curriculum will also be implemented for fourth-year students. Thus there will be a 4-year period where teaching will follow both the new and the old curriculum. I know that several academic sections are already well underway with this work, and it is important to finish our part of the teaching planning as soon as possible. I kindly ask this to be sent to head of academic affairs within January 31, 2015. Updated information on the new curriculum is available at http://www.uib.no/mofa/63484/ny-studieplan-medisinstudiet-ved-uib (in Norwegian)
Good luck with this important work!
Eva
Scoping papers are working documents, sent to the Programme Committee for the Horizon 2020 Specific Programme for discussion in the context of the preparation of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017. As such, information and descriptions of activities indicated in this document may not appear in the adopted Work Programme 2016-2017, and likewise, new elements may be introduced.
The scoping papers released so far set out in more detail the coming main priorities for each part of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme. Member States, European stakeholders and initiatives from society and industry, as well as Horizon 2020 Advisory Groups have been consulted throughout 2014, and their input has been taken into account for strategic programming and drafting the scoping papers. After another round of Advisory Groups consultations on developing the Work Programme contents, the adoption of the Work Programme for 2016-2017 is planned in the third quarter of 2015.
The Horizon 2020 Strategic Programming Document which gives guidance for the development of the Work Programme 2016-2017 defines the key priorities for the framework program 2016/17 and the Focus Areas which are relevant to Pillar 2 (Industrial Leadership) and 3 (Societal Challenges). Compared to the current programme where 12 Focus Areas had been identified, the draft specifies 9 candidate areas whereof 3 are new ones: Internet of Things, Automated road transport and Industry 2020 and Circular Economy. Personalizing health and care which has been a focus area of the last strategic programme, does not longer appear, but will still have its anchoring within the Societal Challenges Pillar as one individual Call on Promoting healthy ageing and personalised healthcare. 5 subareas are specified in the scoping paper on “Health, demographic change and well-being”:
1. Ageing: from early development to the elderly
2. Translational research
3. Population health and health promotion & sustainable health and care systems
4. Infectious diseases
5. ICT for health
The scoping papers are, although they are confidential documents, available at certain websites and through the national Research Councils. You can look at them here.
The seminar will take place in Oslo on December 6. For more information (in Norwegian) click here.
As a follow-up to the HSE-seminar we had this autumn, we would like to remind everyone about performance appraisals for 2014. Performance appraisals should be conducted with nearest leader. Everyone employed in principal employment should be offered a performance appraisal. Technicians and PhD-Candidates will conduct their performance appraisals with their research group leader. Those who have not been offered a performance appraisal in 2014 should contact their research group leader. Professors with principal employment will be offered performance appraisals in 2015 when the new Head of Department is employed.
The research school would like to invite all interested PhD-Candidates to a network luncheon on Monday December 15 at 11:30 in the Conference room, 3rd floor, BB-Building. The following candidates will present their research this time:
1. Øystein Solberg Eikrem, PhD candidate.
Title:”Correlation of Transcriptome Sequencing Data from Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded vs. RNAlater® stored Kidney Biopsies” Group:Renal Research Group. K1.
2. Yunpeng Ding, PhD candidate.
Title: “Plasma glycine levels and risk of coronary artery disease in patients with suspected stable angina pectoris”. K2.
After the presentation a delicious lunch will be served – free of charge!
Please send an e-mail if you are interested in participating to Hildur.skuladottir@gmail.com
Due to vacation absence, on Friday 5th, Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th of December, internal post will only be delivered once.
Laeya Abdoli Najmi
Wednesday December 10, at 13:45-14:45
Place: Seminar room, 9th floor, Laboratory Building
For more information click here.
Andre Sulen
Friday December 12, at 10:00-11:00
For more information click here
Place: Seminar room, 7th floor, Laboratory Building
Leslie Sofia Pareja Eide
Tuesday December 9, at 08:30-09:45
Place: SAS Hotel, Bryggen
For more information click here.
Sabrina John Moyo will have her public defence on Monday December 8, 2014.
Trial lecture: Monday December 8, 2014, 09:15
Topic: “Molecular diagnostics – a means to reduce burden of disease in children in resource poor settings?”
Public defence: Monday December 8, 2015, 11:15
Place: Aud.1, BB-building, Jonas Lies vei 91
Title of dissertation: “Viral diarrhea in children under two years of age in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania”
1st opponent: Ph.d. Johan Nordgren, Linköping University, Sweden
2nd opponent: Ph.d. Frank Olav Pettersen, Oslo University Hospital
The seminar is hosted by Translational Hematology Cluster (THC) on December 16, and takes place in the conference room, 3rd floor of the BB-Building at 12-15:30. For more information click here.
Alle employees at the faculty are invited to an informal Christmas celebration. The event will take place on Thursday 18.12 at 13:30 outside the auditoriums in the BB-building. For more information click here. (in Norwegian)
