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ClimatenergyTalk!
ClimatenergyTalk! (26.05.2021)
CET Affiliate Esmeralda Colombo received CET Accelerator funding to create a special three-part podcast series ClimatenergyTalk! Hear the first episode "The Role of Scientists for Deep Decarbonization" now!
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CET Accelerator funding 2021 (11.05.2021)
It is now possible for CET Affiliates to apply for CET Accelerator seed funding. Do you have a project proposal you are developing? Apply for funding to accelerate your idea! Deadline June 11, 2021.
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Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration (11.05.2021)
Associate Professor Regine Paul at the department has just published the Edward Elgar Handbook on "the Governance and Politics of Migration"
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Experiences and challenges of performance management (10.05.2021)
Per Lægreid and Tom Christensen with new chapter in Handbook of Public Administration
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Global Health and Public Administration most popular with international applicants (07.05.2021)
Four of the five most popular master programmes among international applicants directly tackle global challenges. 
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Syrian civil war at 10: 5,6 million Syrians have fled the country (07.05.2021)
Still, a handful of neighboring states continue to host the majority of Syrian refugees.
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CORE Lecture Series (07.05.2021)
The CORE Lecture Series invites leading international scholars to present their ongoing research.
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Department of Economics at Christie Conference (28.04.2021)
The Christie Conference is one of Norway's most important meeting places for academia, business, culture and society. UiB invites decision makers and key people from business, cultural life, public sector, NGO's and the media. This year associate professor Eeva Mauring, assistant professor Nina Serdarevic and head of Department Tommy S. Gabrielsen participated with engaging lectures.
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Five years of the city as a living laboratory (21.04.2021)
The end of 2020 marked the close of our major project European cities as actors in climate and energy transformation project, funded by the Trond Mohn Foundation. Among the achievements, we are particularly proud of how the project has helped to develop the careers of researchers across the fields of sustainable city planning, governance, communications and media and social movements.
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Highlights from 2020 (20.04.2021)
We are pleased to share with you the CET Annual Report 2020. Although 2020 was a year with huge global challenges, the centre continues to grow and develop new projects and engagement in societal transformation. Read our highlights pamphlet below and download the full annual report.
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New OceanStates blogpost! (13.04.2021)
Read the latest updates on the OceanStates research front in our blog.
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Enclaving and neo-liberal city development (30.03.2021)
Detachment and separation continue to be central to urban development across the globe, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Will enclaving—the construction of these detached societies—further fuel socio-economic differences?  
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First article featuring data from the Panel of Elected Representatives published (03.03.2021)
Fort the first time, data from the Panel of Elected Representatives are being published in a scientific journal. The article also builds on data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel. 
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Bridging higher education and the world of work? (02.03.2021)
Hanne Kvilhaugsvik examines employer panels in Nordic university governance.
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TMS impressed by DIGSSCORE's final report (26.02.2021)
Trond Mohn Foundation, who gave DIGSSCORE a significant 5-year grant back in 2016, has written a generous article on our results. Read about our achievements here.
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Master thesis analysing protests against rhetorics in the immigration debate (24.02.2021)
Nikolai Skorge Bogre has finished his master thesis, that he wrote under supervision of Susanne Bygnes.
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Intergroup Relations During the Refugee Crisis (24.02.2021)
Høivik Bye with a new open-access publication on individual and cultural stereotypes and prejudices and their relationship with behavior toward asylum seekers, using data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel.
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Hydrogen as fuel: Only if it's green! (17.02.2021)
An article in the online newspaper "Energi og Klima" makes use of Citizen Panel data to examine how Norwegians feel about the use of hydrogen as fuel.

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