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University of Bergen professors Barbara Wasson and Jan-Ove Færstad are among the experts in the new committee that will provide advice on how artificial intelligence (AI) can benefit students, universities, colleges, and society.
The University of Bergen is represented by four of the 19 finalists in the national competition to establish new AI centres. Discover the candidates here.
Honorary Doctor at UiB, Alberto Ascherio, receives the prize for his groundbreaking research on MS.
Did you know that poor oral health can be linked to diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and lung diseases? Professor Randi Bertelsen and PhD students Tuva Norderud Jensen and Anders Røsland recently participated in the Science Is Wonderful! festival in Belgium – an annual celebration of EU-funded research organized by the European Commission.
The medical doctor will explore how climate considerations can be integrated into healthcare governance.
"Curious Norway" visited the center to ask about us, our research and what digital narratives actually are.
Team Hagen is the winner of the rector election at UiB. Margareth Hagen has been elected rector for another four years, along with Pro-Rector Sigrun Eliassen.
When researchers at the University of Bergen inserted a diabetes gene into mice, they were surprised by the result. The mouse pancreas was severely injured, but the animals were still protected against diabetes.
In the chemistry lab on the fourth floor of the Realfagbygget, Professor Vidar Remi Jensen's research group combines artificial intelligence with virtual and robot-based searches for the next generation of medicines, catalysts, and sustainable fuels.
13 March, the Holberg Prize—one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology—named Indian scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as its 2025 Laureate.
The University of Bergen is among the initiators of the European campaign Research Matters. The campaign advocates for increased investment in research and innovation in the EU and all European countries.
For the third time, One Ocean Week will be held in the beginning of April – a week filled with exciting and entertaining events about our sustainable ocean in Bergen. On this page you will find an overview of UiB's events during the ocean week. All events are free and open to everyone, except where indicated.
The AI center initiative, Digital Learning Communities AI Centre, led by Rune Johan Krumsvik, aims to increase AI competence in education. The researchers will build on findings about how AI can be used as a sparring partner in student assessments
As the ocean warms, researchers are racing to uncover the impact of the climate crisis on marine life. In an innovative multi-scale project, developmental biologist Lionel Christiaen sets the focus on the very beginnings of life in a changing environment.
“I experience this prize as an enormous encouragement to believe in the things I am doing, and a profound motivation to try and continue my work,” says the award winner who hopes to one day write something that can have a real impact on how we live our lives.
The main goal of the centre is to transform the provision of weather, climate and environmental information to enable better- informed decisions in the face of unprecedented environmental challenges. All this by using artificial intelligence.
The University of Bergen (UiB) will host another seven international research fellows after a very successful application round in this year’s competition for MSCA funding from the EU. The grants will fund the researchers' stay at UiB for two years.
The SEAS programme at the University of Bergen was recently endorsed as an Ocean Decade Action. It becomes the university’s second Action as part of the United Nations Ocean Decade.
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