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The Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) is in charge of and participates in a range of larger and smaller research projects.

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SVT has the last couple of years successfully won several bids for external funding, but the centre also has several self-funded projects.

Below, you will find information about SVT’s on-going projects, project managers and funding sources and programmes. Click on the project for more information.

European Framework Programme (Horizon 2020)

Excellent Science

Under the pillar Excellent Science, SVT has two SEAS postdoctoral fellows under the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND scheme. The COFUND scheme aims to stimulate regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in researchers' training, mobility and career development, spreading the best practices of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions.

Research Council of Norway (NFR)

The NFR works to promote research and innovation of high quality and relevance and to generate knowledge in priority areas to enable Norway to deal with key challenges to society and the business sector.

Projects, centres and research schools financed by the NFR:

PhD and postdoctoral projects

At present, SVT has nine PhDs and one UiB-funded postdoctoral fellow who are working on their theses:

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