Raining EU millions
In the space of one month alone, three research groups at UiB were awarded a total of NOK 60 million by the European Research Council.
Hovedinnhold
NOK 20 million went to brain researcher Kenneth Hugdahl’s project to find out what causes the voices in the minds of schizophrenics. The trials, which will be carried out over a period of five years, will, among other things, make use of so-called functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Professor Christopher S Henshilwood received a corresponding amount to establish a research centre at UiB, in addition to a long-term research programme in southern Africa, Europe and the near East.
As the third application in less than a fortnight, the Marine Microbiology research group received NOK 20 million towards a project led by Frede Thingstad. The objective is to achieve a better understanding of how organisms in the sea relate to each other.
Only ten European universities were more successful than UiB in the competition to secure advanced grants from the European Research Council's (ERC).
The University of Bergen’s three project allocations make it the only university in Norway to secure funding from the ERC, demonstrating its long-term focus on research across the board is paying off internationally.
