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Justin Tongun poster at CAPGAN
CIH PhD Student Wins Poster Prize (02.10.2017)
Justin Tongun is a PhD student at the Centre for International Health (CIH). His home is in South-Sudan.
Getachew TESHOME and Lelisa FEKADU
Meet Some Capacity Builders (26.09.2017)
Five 芦students禄 been selected to take part in the capacity-building project funded by the Gates Foundation. Here we meet Lelisa Fekadu and Getachew Teshome.
Ugleprisen 2017
Pertinent and Innovative MOOC (18.09.2017)
UiB鈥檚 highest education prize for 2017, the Owl Prize, has been awarded to the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), 鈥淥ccupational Health in Developing Countries鈥�.
EADI NORDIC 2017
Globalisation at the Crossroads (28.08.2017)
Around 450 researchers, students, practitioners and policy-makers from nearly 70 countries made their way to Bergen for the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) 2017 conference.
WASO Conference
Turning the page to a new chapter (04.07.2017)
Global Challenges at UiB salutes Kristin Holst Paulsen.
Professor Peter M. Haugan from the University of Bergen at the UN Ocean Conference in New York in June 2017.
Between research and diplomacy (20.06.2017)
Professor Peter M. Haugan has long participated in high level work in the United Nations, building partnerships between science and diplomacy.
Students registering for summer school
The Bergen Summer Research School has started (12.06.2017)
The Bergen Summer Research School started 12th June with the registration at Studentsenteret! Almost 100 PhD candidates participate and they are very welcome.
PACIFIC PARTNERS: UiB's Jarl Giske (left) and USP's Rajesh Chandra launching a unique joint marine chair at the UN Ocean Conference in New York, thus strengthening the ties between the two universities.
Bergen and Fiji expand partnership (08.06.2017)
The University of Bergen and the University of the South Pacific announced the establishment of a joint marine chair at a reception during the UN Ocean Conference.
Dead fish on a beach, used to illustrate article about voluntary commitment on a marine research and education project on sustainability.
Strengthening marine cooperation in Africa (06.06.2017)
At the United Nations Ocean Conference in New York, the University of Bergen has committed to support a research and education project with South African partners.
Solomon Island
The Global Anthropology of Climate Change (06.06.2017)
Climate change is said to be the greatest global challenge of our time, but it is also a contested topic. How do we talk about these issues - from everyday life to the meetings of policy makers - and what are the consequences? Join the course SANT285 if you want to engage in discussions about climate change in a post-factual world.
From the performance Moana: the Rising of the Sea at Oseana Art Centre in Os, south of Bergen, in 2015.
UiB expands collaboration in the Pacific (01.06.2017)
At the United Nations Ocean Conference in the first week of June 2017, anthropologist Edvard Hviding established new partnerships between Norway and the Pacific island nations in marine and climate research.
Global Challenges Opening
#GlobalChallenges (19.05.2017)
The University of Bergen (UiB) has 3 strategic multidisciplinary focus areas. One of these, 鈥淕lobal Challenges鈥�, was officially launched 15 May 2017.
In October 2015, image of migrants on a boat are landing on the Greek island of Lesbos.
A renewed focus on migration (16.05.2017)
Professor Hakan G. Sicakkan wants to strengthen research on migration and transnationality in Bergen as part of the University of Bergen's focus on global challenges, which is one of three focus areas in the university's strategy for 2016-2022.
Cutting of ribbon Global challenges
Opening of Global Challenges (16.05.2017)
Political scientist Yvette Peters from the University of Bergen photographed in Bergen鈥檚 City Hall in March 2017.
Fighting for democracy (21.04.2017)
Thomas Piketty's bestseller about capitalism made it clear to Yvette Peters what her next research project would focus on: political inequality.
DNO Iraqi Kurdistan Energethics
CSR in Iraqi Kurdistan 鈥� Economic Crisis and Feelings of Exploitation (29.03.2017)
Read the latest field report from the Energethics-project. Synn酶ve Bendixsen has been to Iraqi Kurdistan exploring how DNO operates and the local communities鈥� expectations of oil investments.
Photo of cows in a green, green field.
EU funding for climate dynamics project (26.01.2017)
Birgit Kopainsky is partner in a project about sustainability and resilience in European agriculture. The project recently received more than 4.8 million Euros from the EU鈥檚 Horizon 2020 programme.
Newspapers
Media language slows down fight against poverty (15.11.2016)
Latin American newspapers use a technical language when describing poverty. According to researcher Ana Beatriz Chiquito, this makes it more difficult to understand the causes and effects of poverty.

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