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WATCH: "NVEs forslag til nye områder for norsk havvind – fordeler og utfordringer" (28.04.2023)
Did you miss Finn Gunnar Nielsens presentation of NVE's report on new areas for renewable energy production at sea? Watch it here! Please note that the presentation was given in Norwegian language.
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Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funding 2023 (27.04.2023)
Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions for 2023-2024. Deadline 7 June, 2023.
Image of the participants in the PILOT-E pilot project taken at the Kick-off with the project partners January 2023
WATCH: Energy Flexibility aggregation for the Privat Enterprise Market (25.04.2023)
Did you miss Kristin Margrethe Flornes presentation of Eviny's pilot project from PILOT-E to develop solutions for increased flexibility in the power system? Watch it here!
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PhD Fellowship in Social Anthropology (21.04.2023)
A doctoral fellowship in social anthropology is available at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway.
Illustration image with technical installations related to the project schematically drawn on an image of the Odda - Tyssedal area with the inner part of Sørfjorden
WATCH: Green Energy – Hardanger Hydrogen Hub (21.04.2023)
In this presentation, Ingvald Torblå, CEO of Odda Technology, presents the plans and current status of the Green energy project Hardanger Hydrogen Hub.
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Sensing, ocean and capitalism: Open courses autumn 2024 (20.04.2023)
Do you want to learn more about how anthropologists approach the ocean? Or about how our senses – sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch – can be experienced differently in different cultures? What about understanding how anthropologists theorize capitalism and how people resist against systems of inequality? Then you should take one or more of this fall’s elective courses at the Department of... Read more
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New PhD candidate at Sampol (20.04.2023)
Erick Alvarez Barreno is the department's newest PhD candidate
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- Careful feeding the AI beast (20.04.2023)
- As long as we don't know more about how Big Tech use the information we share with them, we should be careful about feeding the AI technology with potentially sensitive material, writes experts from the department in an op-ed published in Medier24.
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Declaration on "Pandemic, diversity and social inequality" (18.04.2023)
During the conference on "Pandemic, diversity and social inequality" in Bergen in October, researchers started working on a declaration based on knowledge and experiences from the pandemic. The declaration has now been published and is open to read.
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Do Wars breed Nationalism? (11.04.2023)
Carlo Koos from the Department of Government is one of the authors of this new article published in American Political Science Review.