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UiB can accept 250 Ukrainian refugees as students and is planning courses in Norwegian and in academic English for them this summer.

The Norad supported project “Samaki”, which means fish in Swahili, unites Norwegian researchers with colleagues in Tanzania to study how small-scale fisheries are the key to combat malnutrition. This is part of a bigger picture in the fight for scarce resources and on the question whether small fish should be used as food for humans or become fish food?

Researchers demonstrate how we can make use of pores to solve some of the greatest challenges before us – such as the global climate crisis.

Social scientist Gabriele de Seta is looking at how we interact with digital media in everyday life. Now he is awarded the Prize for Young Researchers for his outstanding work.

Linguistics professor Vadim Kimmelman receives high-level funding from the EU. Now he will be able to build a research team and explore different properties in five different sign languages.

It was announced today that the 2022 Holberg Prize is awarded to US scholar Sheila Jasanoff for her groundbreaking reserach in science and technology studies. The Nils Klim Prize is awarded to Finnish theologian Elisa Uusimäki.

The results of a new clinical trial, published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Metabolism, show that oral intake of nicotinamide riboside (NR) enhances NAD-metabolism in the brain of individuals with Parkinson’s disease, and shows promise as a potential therapy.

The University of Bergen (UiB) will play an important role in the new collaboration Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Cloud, building competence and supporting researchers.