Welcome to the University of Bergen

With this magazine, the University of Bergen wants to offer a few glimpses of our range of activities in research, education and international collaboration. We have a distinctly international profile that involves close cooperation with other universities all over the world. Our aim is to increase international recruitment and exchanges of both academic staff and students, and to maintain open, wide- ranging and fruitful relationships with professional colleagues in a multitude of nations. A single issue of a magazine is incapable of covering the whole range of activities of the University. Nevertheless, we hope that the sample we offer here will tempt our readers to become better acquainted with this important centre of research and education on the west coast of Norway, in the heart of Norway’s second-largest city. A good place to explore our university a little further is our web-site: www.uib.no

Welcome!

Content:

- The city and the university
- Faculties
- Cephalopod workshop
- The key to a better PhD education
- A world of opportunities
- The biggest fund manager in Norway
- Major focus on open archives
- Percentage of female staff to triple
- Popular scientist with new technology
- National proteomics resource
- Ground-breaking techniques in new centre
- Aiming to starve cancerous tumours
- Technology at the University of Bergen
- Investing in nanoscience
- CERN expects great revelations
- Welfare and ecology in the Nile countries
- Researching shape
- Trying to understand mental illness
- New centre for research-driven innovation
- Big in development-related research
- World’s leading documents in climate research
- Democracy and the Rule of Law
- Important participation in “Citizens and Governance”
- Putting a pricetag on health
- Europe divided by gender roles
- Fairy-tale world on the seabed
- New sub-sea observatory
- Small answers to big questions
- Getting to the bottom of political EU language
- Outstanding research on the origin of life
- The Holberg International Memorial Prize
- Centre for International Health
- Centre of Excellence
- Modern research vessel
- Worldwide Universities Network
- Research building of the future
- Technology transfer office in Bergen
- Science centre of highinternational standard
- The Russian language and new media

Responsible editor: Torny E. Aarbakke • Editor: Elin Folgerø Styve • Writers: Kjerstin Gjengedal, Lars H. Ursin, Silje Gripsrud, Hilde K. Kvalvaag, Sjur Holsen • Translation: Allegro AS • Graphic design: Lars O. Haaheim • Photo, front cover: Marius E. Hauge Other photos: Kieran Kolle, Thor Brødreskift, Paul Sigve Amundsen, Paul-Erik Lillholm, iStockphoto, Scanpix, Media and Communication Centre at UiB, features@uib.no.