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Grafikk med marine dyr og marin teknologi

SEAS is a career and mobility fellowship programme for 37 postdoctoral research fellows within marine sustainability. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101034309.

Marine and coastal areas face multifaceted challenges, threatening biodiversity and humanity on a global scale. To have an impact on marine sustainability, there is an urgent need to integrate perspectives and insights from a diverse range of fields and sectors.

The SEAS programme brings together a variety of aspects of marine sustainability, involving all UiB faculties, and many academic and non-academic partners.

We have had five calls for a total of 37 fellowships (2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024). There will be no more calls. 

You can find information about our current SEAS fellows here

OCEAN DECADE ACTION
SEAS postdoctoral fellows at a workshop in autumn 2024.

UiB’s SEAS programme gets Ocean Decade status

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.

SEAS Researcher Profile:
Konstanze in Greenland with snow and ice in background

– It’s a motivation to be able to improve estimates for sea level change

– With my project, we can refine numbers for the ongoing Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea level, including the numbers used in the IPCC report. The IPCC’s sea level estimates are shared as global maps and used by politicians, city planners, civil engineers etc. around the world, to address...

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hand holding fish feed pellets

A social science and humanities workshop on fish feed. Really?

“Damn it, there is a lot of social science and humanities research on fish feed going on here at UiB that I’m not even aware of!” This realization hit me in a meeting with colleagues who are part of an informal network of UiB researchers interested in fish feed. To my surprise, the more senior...

SEAS Researcher Profile:
Amit presenting

– The fundamental nature of maritime operations is in transition. This represents a knowledge gap

– As the autonomous ships are being developed in the Scandinavian region and within the wider area of Europe, the fundamental nature of maritime operations is in transition from controlling the ships while being onboard, to operating them remotely from shore. Such developments are presenting...

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SEAS postdoc fellows Thomas Völker, Claudiu Eduard Nedelciu and Aistė Klimašauskaitė.

Marine sustainability, leadership and interdisciplinarity – more than just buzzwords?

When topics like “what is interdisciplinarity” and “to what degree does my work actually contribute to marine sustainability” came up at meetings, a group of three SEAS postdoc fellows wanted to take the discourse to a more scientific level.

SEAS will facilitate international mobility of high-potential, experienced researchers, and provide exposure to world-class international working environments, networks, supervision, and training. The postdoctoral research fellows will be part of a support and training scheme that will give the opportunity to build highly valued competencies in the competitive international academic and non-academic job markets.

Marine collaboration among the academic, business, government, and civil society (e.g., NGOs) sectors is particularly strong in the Bergen region, given the city’s long history as a maritime port and trading centre. UiB’s campus-area, Marineholmen, is a marine hotspot in Europe, with over 150 companies and organisations collaborating in seafood, energy, subsea technology, and other maritime activities. Many of these are partners of the SEAS programme and can provide mentoring, secondments, and collaboration opportunities.

The SEAS programme will boost UiB’s long-standing cooperation with industry partners and public institutions, united in their support to accelerate “blue growth” and enhance the region’s potential to create marine jobs and innovations within a guiding framework of sustainable marine development.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101034309.