1. University of Bergen
Ocean, Life, Society

2. (Photo: Marianne Røsvik)
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
The University of Bergen (UiB) is an internationally recognised research university. Academic diversity and high quality are fundamental for us. Our priorities are part of a Norwegian national responsibility for the development of disciplines: basic research, research training and research-based education.
We are proud to say that UiB is the university in Norway, which is most cited in academic journals.
There are six faculties at UiB and a total of appr. 14,000 students. Around 1,550 of these are international students. We employ 3,500 staff. PhD candidates are paid employees of staff, making the doctoral degree at UiB particularly attractive for rising talent. About one in three graduating doctors are from outside Norway.
The three focus research areas at the University of Bergen are Marine research, Climate and Energy Transition and Global Social Challenges.
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3. UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
HISTORY
The University of Bergen is Norway's second oldest university, founded in 1946 and officially opened in In a European context UiB may be a young university, but the scientific and institutional roots go deeper. The university has long pursued scientific activity and the teaching at the Bergen Museum, established in 1825.
1825
Bergen Museum is established on the initiative of Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie, who was president of the Norwegian parliament – Stortinget.
1865
The new Bergen Museum building opened. Today this is the main building of the University of Bergen.
1948
University of Bergen officially opens with three faculties in place: Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and Faculty of Medicine. (Photo: Atelier KK, Billedsamlingen – UiB)
1970
Two more faculties are established: Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Odontology. The latter was fused with Faculty of Medicine in 2008.
1980
Another two faculties open: Faculty of Law and Faculty of Psychology. Today there are six faculties at the University of Bergen.
2015
The opening of the new assembly hall at the University Museum of Bergen. The new hall will become a meeting point between the university and the city of Bergen.

4. About UiB
ABOUT UiB

5. An Urban University Byuniversitet
UiB is an urban university and the university campus is in the centre of Bergen, except for the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry located at Årstadvollen, but still within walking distance to the city centre.
Our urban location holds particular attraction to many students applying to study in Bergen. It creates a vivid atmosphere, as the university very much becomes a part of the daily life of the city of Bergen.
Bergen is the second city of Norway with close to 270,000 inhabitants, and has been a Scandinavian centre for trade for close to a thousand years. The city is geographically situated between the picturesque fjords of Western Norway and is also surrounded by the Seven Mountains, which are often used for hiking by both inhabitants of and visitors to the city.
One of UiB’s stated goals is to reach out both to the city of Bergen and other municipalities in the region, as well as the private sector in a part of Norway renowned for its natural resources. Not only is Bergen close to the oil fields of the North Sea, but the region is also home to many of the major actors in the Norwegian fish industry. The latter a long-standing tradition in the region, reinforced in recent years thanks to the growth in aquaculture.
Researchers at UiB work closely with both the oil and aquaculture industries. Which makes it natural for marine research to be one of UiB’s core research areas.
(Photo: Eivind Senneset)
An Urban University
Byuniversitet

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LOCATION
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1. Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 2. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences 3. The Student Centre 4. Bergen University Museum 5. Faculty of Social Sciences 6. Faculty of Humanities 7. Faculty of Psychology 8. Faculty of Law
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7. Facts Seven faculties Around 40 institutes and centres 14,800 students
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Facts
Seven faculties
Around 40 institutes and centres
14,800 students
3,600 staff
About 250 PhDs annually
Approximately 3,000 academic publications annually
Approximately 2,500 get a degree at UiB every year
FACTS

8. UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
ORGANISATION

9. The University Leadership
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The University Leadership
The University Board is the University’s highest governing body and is responsible for all activities at the institution
The University Board may delegate decision-making powers; Delegated decisions made by others are still the responsibility of the board
Rector is elected and is Chairman of the Board
When the Rector is elected the University shall have a University Director appointed for a specific term by the University Board
THE UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP

10. THE UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP
From left:
Anne Christine Johannessen (Vice-Rector for International Affairs)
Robert Bjerknes (Vice-Rector for Interdisciplinary Affairs)
Dag Rune Olsen (Rector)
Anne Lise Fimreite (Pro-rector)
Oddrun Samdal (Vice-Rector for Education)
(Photo: Thor Brødreskift)

11. UiB meets 120 environmental requirements related to:
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UiB meets 120 environmental requirements related to:
Waste, Transport, Energy, Procurement
and Work Environment
ECO-LIGHTHOUSE
As a leading knowledge institution, the University of Bergen has a duty to take account of environmental considerations and social responsibility in all its activities. These are very important issues to our students and staff.
In 2016, the university was awarded the Eco-Lighthouse certificate.
To achieve this award, we have undergone a certification process and worked systematically to meet 120 criteria to reduce environmental impact in these areas:
Waste, transport, energy, procurement and the work environment.
For example, we have introduced stricter environmental standards in procurement, facilitated cycling to work and implemented automatic lighting systems in buildings.
The Eco-Lighthouse certification demonstrates that we take these issues seriously. We will continue working to improve our environmental efforts in the years to come.

12. Values, Main Tasks and Strategic Goals

13. Knowledge that Shapes Society
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Knowledge that Shapes Society
The University of Bergen is an international research university in which all activity is based on academic freedom and curiosity-driven research
Our mission is to contribute to society through our expertise acquired through excellent research, education, dissemination of knowledge and innovation
The faculties and the University Museum represent our most important knowledge arenas
We shall profile the relevance of research and education. Controversy and dissemination of knowledge are a prerequisite for developing academia and a democratic society.
KNOWLEDGE THAT SHAPES SOCIETY (OUR VALUES)

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15. Main Tasks We Explore We Educate We Develop We Challenge
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Main Tasks
We Explore
We Educate
We Develop
We Challenge
MAIN TASKS
We Explore: Researchers and students at the University of Bergen explore core issues – from the origins of the universe, via the history of humankind, to visions of the Earth’s future.
We Educate: Through a broad range of study programmes, we educate candidates who are equipped to contribute towards a society based on knowledge, expertise and democratic values.
We Develop: Through robust and close interaction with the world around us – globally, nationally and locally – we shall be instrumental in building a society based on knowledge, skills and attitudes. Our researchers and students are strong candidates for international research partnerships and educational collaboration.
We Challenge: Research, education and innovation yield knowledge and expertise that is decisive when important decisions are to be made. Our researchers and students shall contribute insight and communication of knowledge in public discussions.

16. UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
Strategy Objectives 2016–2022
UiB shall develop additional leading research environments
UiB shall educate Norway’s most attractive candidates
UiB shall be a sought-after institution of expertise
UiB shall contribute in the public exchange of ideas and to the knowledge-based development in society
STRATEGY OBJECTIVES 2016–2022
UiB shall develop additional leading research environments. By 2022, all our faculties will have world-class academic environments and additional disciplines of high international standard.
UiB shall educate Norway’s most attractive candidates. By 2022, a total of 85 per cent of the degree candidates will have a relevant job two years after they complete their education.
By 2022, UiB shall be a sought-after institution of expertise that has bolstered its long-term relationship with government authorities, business, culture and society.
UiB shall contribute in the public exchange of ideas and to the knowledge-based development in society through good communication and dialogue with the world around us. By 2022, we will be a leader in Norway in the field of digital communication.

17. Photo from Sea Lice Research Centre
The centre has a total of nine partners from both academia and industry:
UiB, IMR, the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, UNI Research AS, PatoGen Analyse AS, Novartis Animal Health AG, Marine Harvest ASA, EWOS Innovation AS and Lerøy Seafood Group ASA.
(Photo: Eivind Senneset)

18. Research
RESEARCH

19. Main Focus Areas Global Social Challenges Marine Research
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Main Focus Areas
MAIN FOCUS AREAS
Global social challenges
The University of Bergen (UiB) has a long history of research in global sustainable development. Challenges in areas like health, the environment, democracy, equality, and social redistribution demands collaboration across both disciplines and borders.
This research is imperative to understanding the background, connections and changes occurring in the challenges in society.
Research on global social challenges is carried out at all of UiB faculties, most institutes, and at several research centres – often in collaboration with international partner institutions.
Marine research
The marine tradition at the University of Bergen (UiB) stretches back to the nineteenth century and the oceanographic research carried out at what was then called Bergen Museum, and which today is known as the University Museum of Bergen.
Today UiB is Norway’s largest marine university, with research and education of a high international standard and several world leading research environments.
Bergen region has a total of Europe's largest concentration of marine research, and is the 13th largest marine city in the world in terms of number of scientific publications.
Climate and energy transition The roots of climate research at the University of Bergen (UiB) stretch all the way back to the start of the twentieth century, when Vilhelm Bjerknes founded the Bergen school of meteorology. This school created modern meteorology and turned it into a precise science.
Today, the name of Bjerknes lives on at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. However, research on climate and energy transition is increasingly being carried out at all UiB faculties, from language and social sciences to law and the natural sciences.
(Photo: Frode Ims (Global social challenges), Eivind Senneset (Marine research), Colourbox (Climate and energy transition)
Global Social Challenges
Marine Research
Climate and Energy Transition

20. Norwegian Centres of Exellence
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Norwegian Centres of Exellence
Birkeland Centre for Space Science
Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health
Centre for Cancer Biomarkers
Centre for Geobiology
NORWEGIAN CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE (SFF)
Global social challenges, Marine research og Climate and energy transition are UiBs Main focus areas, but there is a multitude of research at UiB that goes far beyond this spanning all six faculties. The multitude of UiB research is reflected in the research groups awarded status as Norwegian Centres of Excellence (SFF) by the Research Council of Norway.
The first SFFs were established in 2003 and UiB received funding for three such centres for a ten-year period:
• The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) • Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS) • Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research (CIPR)
In 2008, the research environment at UiB’s Centre for Geobiology (CGB) was also awarded SFF status.
And in 2013 UiB got funding for three new SFFs: • Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health ( ) • Birkeland Centre for Space Science ( ) • Centre for Cancer Biomarkers ( )
We also have two Centres for Research-based Innovation (SFI): • Sea Lice Research Centre ( /19), • The Michelsen Centre for Industrial Measurement Science and Technology ( )

21. Photo from Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO)
Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO) is one of two new Centres of Excellence (SFF) at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.
The centre works with new cancer markers and targeted treatment, and focuses particularly on mechanisms related to how cancer cells are affected by the microenvironment in tumours, and its importance for cancer spread and poor prognosis.
Centre Director Professor Lars A. Akslen, Clinical Institute 1.
(Photo: Ingvild Festervoll Melien)

22. ERC Grants ERC Starting Grant: Nele Meckler (A focus on climates past)
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ERC Grants
ERC Starting Grant:
Nele Meckler (A focus on climates past)
Saket Saurabh (Algorithms and graph theory)
ERC Consolidator Grant:
Andreas Hejnol (Reconstructing the evolutionary history)
Noel Keenlyside (Future super model)
ERC Advanced Grant:
Bruce Kapferer (Equality in crisis)
Pål Rasmus Njølstad (Solving Diabetes)
Nikolai Østgaard (Space is the place)
Kenneth Hugdahl (Revolutions in psychology)
ERC Synergy Grant:
Kerim H. Nisancioglu / Eystein Jansen (Climate change in the Arctic)
ERC GRANTS
The European Research Council (ERC) announces grants to outstanding researchers in four categories: ERC Starting Grants ERC Consolidator Grants ERC Advanced Grants, ERC Proof of Concept. - A fifth category, ERC Synergy Grant, has also been announced certain years.
An ERC grant is one of the most prestigious accolades a scientist can get.
Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants and Advanced Grants are the most important grants, while the “Proof of Concept” category being advertised as an additional appropriation to researchers who have received an ERC grant earlier.
ERC Starting Grant:
Researcher Nele Meckler - Department of Earth Science: C4T, Climate change across Cenozoic cooling steps reconstructed with clumped isotope thermometry
- Working with reconstructions of past climate using sediments from the ocean and rocks of caves (stalagmite) as archives.
Professor Saket Saurabh, Department of Informatics: PARAPPROX, Parameterized Approximation 
- Will research how to solve problems as quickly as possible on a computer.
ERC Consolidator Grant:
Researcher Andreas Hejnol, The Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology: EVOMESODERM, The evolution of mesoderm and its differentiation into cell types and organ systems
- Will look at how human muscles, blood vessels and kidneys originated by studying animal fetuses in animals nemertea, sausage worms, rotifers and flatworms.
Professor Noel Keenlyside, Geophysical Institute/ Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research: STERCP, Synchronisation to enhance reliability of climate prediction
- The project focuses on the improvement of climate forecasts. By connecting various climate models into a supermodel, we will achieve more precise forecasts of the climate changes we must be prepared to face in the future.
ERC Advanced Grant:
Professor Bruce Kapferer, Department of Social Anthropology: EGALITARIANISM, Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons
With this project the social anthropologist challenges the ideas of equality as we know them from Rousseau, Marx and other social philosophical “Godfathers”. He calls it "guerrilla anthropology". Kapferer will examine egalitarian structures, processes and values. The project is based methodically on the analysis of textual material and fieldwork in situations ions where crises in equality and inequality appears in Europe and elsewhere.
Professor Pål Rasmus Njølstad, Department of Clinical Science: SELECTionPREDISPOSED, Novel Tools for Early Childhood Predisposition to Obesity
What role does diet and genetics play in the development of obesity and diabetes? This is one of the questions Njølstad is trying to find answers to based on his studies of children and mothers in Norway. The survey is based on biological material and questionnaire data from more than 100,000 pregnancies. 
Professor Nikolai Østgaard, Department of Physics and Technology: TGF-MEPPA, Terrestrial Gamma Flashes-the Most Energetic Photon Phenomenon in our Atmosphere
Will look for GRBs in thunderclouds. Østgaard think that gamma-ray bursts have to do something with lightning and wants to find out how often these bursts occur. He leads the research Birkeland Centre for Space Science (BCSS) at the Institute of Physics and Technology. BCSS is also a Centre of Excellence (CoE), appointed by the Norwegian Research Council. 
Kenneth Hugdahl, professor of Biological Psychology at UiB and head of fMRI group in Bergen: Auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia
In March 2016 professor Kenneth Hugdahl received a second ERC Advanced Grant. The neuroscientist is the second scientist in Norway to manage this feat. He plans to use new technology to understand and help patients who hear voices. This research could represent a paradigm shift in the treatment of patients with auditory hallucinations.
ERC Synergy Grant:
Professor Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu / Professor Eystein Jansen, Department of Earth Science: ICE2ICE, Arctic Sea Ice and Greenland Ice Sheet Sensitivity
In the research project, Professor Jansen will examine what happens to the ice on Greenland if the ice in the Northsea disappears.

23. Publications
2015 2,980
2005 2,005
PUBLICATIONS
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25. Candidate Production (2011–2015)
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Candidate Production (2011–2015)
CANDIDATE PRODUCTION (2011–2015)

26. Education
EDUCATION

27. Education offered by UiB (2015)
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Education offered by UiB (2015)
73 Bachelors degree programmes
99 Masters and professional study programmes
More than 2,200 courses
Educates approximately 250 PhD candidates a year
30 Research schools on PhD level
EDUCATION OFFERED BY UiB (2015)

28. Research-based Education
Use and further develop the university's advantages as a research university as a base for quality education
Students will be taught and supervised by active researchers
Equal time for research and education
Time for research is also important resource for quality in education
Student active research
Academic formation
Photo from Centre of Excellence in Biology Education (bioCEED) at the University of Bergen
(Photo: Eivind Senneset)
Research-based Education
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29. Bachelor- and Master Degrees (2015)
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Bachelor- and Master Degrees (2015)
BACHELOR- AND MASTER DEGREES (2015)
Each year about 1,000 persons get their bachelor's degree and about 1,500 their master's degree at UiB.

30. Students per Faculty (2015)
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Students per Faculty (2015)
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences
Faculty of Psychology
Faculty of Law
Total, about 16,000
STUDENTS PER FACULTY (2015)
Diagram showing the latest figures for the number of students allocated to the various faculties.
About ten percent (10%) of university students are foreign. UiB have good agreements on student exchange with renowned research universities from different parts of the world, and encourage their students to apply international experiences.
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Faculty of Humanities

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32. International Profile

33. International Profile (2015)
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International Profile (2015)
32% of the academic staff
37% of the PhD candidates
12% of the student population
649 outgoing exchange students
International cooperation is the focus of all research
We prioritize active participation in international networks
Vice Rector for International Relations
INTERNATIONAL PROFILE (2015)
UiB has students from 160 countries (2015)
UiB has 25 master programmes for international students (Autumn 2016)
30% of those graduating have been on exchange (2015)

34. INTERNATIONALISATION
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European networks
Arctic research
Office in Brussels and Tokyo
BERGEN
German students
Guest researcher programme
Shanghai, China
India
WUN
Makerere University, Uganda
INTERNATIONALISATION
Students and employees at the UiB are increasingly recruited abroad, and meet in global and interdisciplinary networks.
Our scientists publish their results via international publication channels and receive research funding via international bodies, such as the European Research Council.
Our scientists and students are attractive participants in international research and educational projects.
Arctic research
The University of the Arctic is a network of universities, colleges and other organisations committed to higher education and research in the north.
Guest researcher programme
A guest researcher programme has been in place between University of Washington-Seattle and UiB for more than 30 years, with a particular emphasis on PhD exchange.
WUN
UiB is a member of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), which comprises 19 research-intensive institutions spanning 6 continents. UiB Rector Dag Rune Olsen is on WUN’s steering board.
European networks
UiB is a member of the Coimbra Group and Utrecht Network. European-wide networks that both are vital for our research and education work on the continent and beyond.
German students
Of the 1,550 foreign students currently at UiB, around 230 are from Germany alone. No other country sends so many of its students to UiB.
SANORD
UiB is a founding member of Cape Town-based SANORD, which is comprised of 42 universities from countries in Southern Africa and the Nordic region.
China
The Nordic Centre at Fudan University in Shanghai is a key part of UiB’s outreach in East Asia. In 2013, UiB also introduced a new bachelor programme in Chinese.
India
The Nordic Centre in India is a consortium of leading universities and research institutions from the Nordic countries and is important for UiB’s work in India.
Makerere University, Uganda
In 2013, UiB celebrated 25 years of collaboration with Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, one of our main international institutional partnerships.
SANORD

35. Knowledge Clusters
KNOWLEDGE CLUSTERS

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KNOWLEDGE CLUSTERS
The establishment of knowledge clusters is one of several working methods by which we can reach UiB’s goal to develop outstanding research and education environments of excellence. The clusters are based on interdisciplinary collaboration to solve complex issues.
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