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UiB joins forces with seven partner universities in the North of England and Norway. This new initiative strengthens ties and cultivates a conducive environment for education and research partnerships.
Tom Langbehn and Leonardo Muniz Pichel, both from the Faculty of Science and Technology, are this year's recipients of the TMF Starting Grant. They will receive the award as part of the Trond Mohn Foundation's anniversary celebration in the University Aula on December 6th.
«The recognition goes to us all,» professor Kalb says.
Dr. Margit H. Simon is awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant of 2,17 million Euros to lead the PIONEER project which will transform our understanding of how environmental factors shaped the evolution of behavioural complexity in early Homo sapiens.
«I was interested in finding out if queer boys and boys with a minority background used social media differently than the majority, and found that they stand out a bit,» UiB researcher John Magnus Dahl says.
Associate Professor Marc Vaudel and Professor Linda Gröning at the University of Bergen have each been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant.
«We will teach the courses at five universities in different ways. We will create shared teaching materials, and students at all five institutions will participate through teacher and student mobility», professor Lise Rakner says.
With funding from the EU, University of Bergen researchers and their large transdisciplinary team set out to help society deal with threats related to pollinator decline.
Students and staff from the University of Bergen, together with long-standing partners, cleaned “Plastic Island” Lisle Lyngøy during this year’s plastic cleanup campaign.
Åslaug Ommundsen from the University of Bergen, along with three Nordic research partners, has been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant to investigate how books and literary networks shaped Northern Europe between 1000 and 1500 CE.   
Professor Anu Bradford, at Columbia Law School wins he prestigious 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize for the book Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology.
A large international project on young people's political and civic engagement is examining their relationship with local politics and participation.
A large international project on young people's political and civic engagement is examining their relationship with local politics and participation.
The new exhibit aims to challenge the public’s perspective on the often-misunderstood animals by highlighting their beauty and ecological relevance. It will run until January 26, 2025.
What can society do when climate change takes away crafts, traditions, knowledge about nature, and other intangible aspects of cultural heritage? Daniel Puig, a researcher at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, is researching this question.
We now welcome applications to host an event as part of Day Zero at the SDG Conference Bergen, 5 February 2025. This is the free, all-digital day of events on the day before the SDG Conference plenary programme starts.
There was great interest in the first UiB Innovation Festival on September 20th. Vice-Rector Gottfried Greve hopes the event will create a new momentum for the innovation culture at The University of Bergen (UiB).
The fifth event in the Ocean Futures 2030 series was co-organised by UiB and France’s embassy in Norway to discuss global ocean awareness across sectors. Watch the recording.

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