In February, the IT department announced that UiO's email would be moved to a new and better solution, and now we are starting. The first step for everyone at UiO is to finish the cleanup effort to minimize the amount of e-mail which must be moved, and remove sensitive data. The migration to the new solution starts at the beginning of October.
All employees may use 1.5 working hours per week to exercise. Make use of courses offered this spring semester!
The University of Oslo has had an electric vehicle pool for business trips since 2009. Now it will be discontinued.
Summer is here, and many bring their PC and phone while traveling. Remember to consider security even when you're in vacation mode, and bring along tips for good work if you're going to have a "summer home office".
The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) invites researchers to apply for the CAS Research Grant for 2026/2027. Deadline: 18 October 2024.
Are you a researcher with an innovative idea based on your research that can contribute to solving an important need in society, but need funding to develop the idea further? Check the UiO call for innovation funding within all academic fields. The application deadline was 2 September 2024. Now, the UiO Growth House is evaluating the applications.
Thursday, June 20th, the login on the UiO website and the faculty websites, as well as Canvas and Panopto, will be renewed. You should not notice any changes other than a renewed appearance and the requirement to log in with two-factor authentication.
This year's election of representatives of the group of fixed-term academic staff on the University Board has now been completed.
The University of Oslo annually awards five prizes for research, young researchers, education, dissemination and innovation.
Collaboration with international alliances, initiatives towards the Palestinian research and education sector, and nominations of Palestinian students to the Students at Risk programme. These are some of the measures UiO will implement in the time to come.
The University Board decided at its meeting on 14 May 2024 to say no to an academic boycott of Israel, while at the same time condemning all violations of international law and demanding an immediate ceasefire and a halt to the attacks against civilians in the Gaza Strip and Israel.
The University Board decided on 14 May 2024 to offer Hanna Ekeli the position of Faculty Director at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo.
UiO has several different support schemes for innovative researchers. In 2024, a total of about NOK 16 million will be announced from internal funds. The UiO Growth House has made an overview all UiO's innovation calls and application deadlines to make the application processes more predictable for researchers.
Inven2 is in the process of gathering ideas for this year's idea competition. The winner will receive 500,000 Norwegian kroner to develop the idea into a product or service. Deadline for applications: May 1, 2024.
A reminder that March 1 is the deadline for applying to the University Kindergartens for year 2024/2025 with start-up in August.
If you need a kindergarten place for your child and meet the application criteria, submit an application on the online form.
Do you have an innovative idea based on your research for a new product or service, but need funding to develop your early-stage technology or service further? Apply for seed funding from the UiO Growth House! Application deadline: 4 April 2024.
UiO is now implementing the email solution that is included in MS365 (formerly Office 365), which can offer all students and employees a more comprehensive way of working, where email and calendar seamlessly work with the other MS365 tools, and all email is protected by two-factor authentication (secure login).
UTFORSK is a program that provides funding for educational collaboration between Norwegian higher education institutions and partners in Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, China, South Africa, South Korea, and the USA. The application deadline is April 15th 2024.
Do you have a work PC or other IT equipment that is fully operable but still needs to be replaced? Now you can donate it to primary schools in Ukraine. An initiative at the Faculty of Medicine has become a donation scheme that everyone at UiO can use.
The committee that will propose a new language policy for UiO is now getting started. The group is led by Helge Jordheim, and they are seeking input for their work.
1 March is the deadline for applying to the University Kindergartens for year 2024/2025 with start-up in August. If you need a kindergarten place for your child and meet the application criteria, submit an application on the online form. The application form opens 1 February.
What do you think of IT at UiO? In January last year, UiO established a new IT organization. The goal of the reorganization was to provide better IT services to everyone at UiO, offer better support, and be more responsive to requests and feedback. Please let us know what you think.
"We must manage the resources from the project in a way that allows us to achieve something even greater in the future," Professor Vessela Kristensen says. She is Principal Investigator and coordinator of the EU project RESCUER.
All employees may use 1.5 working hours per week to excercise. Make use of courses offered this spring semester: floorball, yoga, strength training and neck/shoulder are some of the activities you may choose from.
An error recently occured in the systems of The Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DF?). Managers and authorized users at nine other universities had access to personal information about UiO's employees.
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