News

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has issued a call for its 2025 calls cycle. Deadlines for EOI: 4 July 2025.

Cancer Grand Challenges has announced seven new Challenges to address the most urgent, complex problems in cancer research that require collaboration across borders and disciplines. Deadline EOIs: 18 June 2025. 

The Norwegian SIDS and Stillbirth Society (LUB) has announced funding for research on stillbirth, infant and child death, grief management, and health and care services. Deadline: 1 June 2025.

Through the Young Investigator Programme, EMBO supports talented young researchers in the life sciences. It offers financial and practical support, as well as a network of more than 700 early career scientists. Deadline: 1 April 2025. 

The Research Fund for Asthma and Allergy has announced funding to promote research on asthma and allergy. Deadline: 20 October 2025.

Gemini Center aims to foster strategic collaboration between professional groups at NTNU, SINTEF, the University of Oslo, St. Olav's Hospital and NTNU Social Research. Deadline: 15 March 2025.

The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) has published its call for excellent researchers under the age of 40, Young CAS Grant. Deadline is 21 May 2025.

Faculty director Hanna Ekeli and dean Hanne Harbo provide an update on efforts to adjust the faculty's finances to the new economic situation. Finally, they also share a useful tip about a strong support offering for our teachers.

UiO Growth House provides seed funding to develop innovative ideas or early-stage technologies and services. Deadline: 20 March 2025.

NordForsk has announced a call for proposals on responsible use of Artificial Intelligence based on a Nordic-Baltic initiative. Deadline: 13 May 2025.

Adapting to a new economic reality at UiO. An extra half billion for groundbreaking research provides new FRIPRO opportunities; sign up for the webinar. Four of our researchers have received FRIPRO grants. Read about the life sciences conference in 2025. Rector election 2025: two meetings left. Use your vote between 24th March and 4th April.

Grand Challenges is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems. Deadline: 25 March 2025.

CARE has announced funding to cut women¡¯s lifetime risk of Alzheimer¡¯s in half. Deadline for abstract: 14 March 2025.

The Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted (Norges Blindeforbund) has announced funds for research. Deadline: 1 March 2025.

Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) initiative has a call on improving the well-being of people with neurodegenerative diseases through social sciences and humanities research. Deadline: 4 March 2025.

The 2025 INTPART - International Partnerships for Excellent Education, Research and Innovation - call has been launched. Applications must be approved by UiO and there are internal deadlines. First internal deadline is 7 April 2025.

The Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study supports projects carried out by researchers at UC Berkeley in collaboration with researchers from Norwegian universities. Deadline: 7 April 2025.

Network of European Funding for Neuroscience Research (ERA-NET NEURON) has announced a call to improve the knowledge about the neuroscience of pain. The deadline for pre-proposals is 6 March 2025.

From 24 March to 4 April, you can cast your vote in the rector election and help shape UiO's future. If you missed the election meeting at the Faculty of Medicine, it's not too late.

Our research advisers in the External Funding Office (EEF) are up-to-date on this spring¡¯s calls. Get in touch with them if you are planning to apply.

Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo and Pro-Dean Jan Bjaalie provide insight into some of the strategic measures and initiatives being undertaken by the faculty this year.

Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo and Pro-Dean Magnus L?berg are currently strongly involved in further development of the faculty's study portfolio. Here, we provide a brief update some of the essential work in progress.

Research and Innovation in 2025. Get help recruiting an MSCA at the webinar on 24 February. EU funding. Ivar Skeie awarded the King's Medal of Merit. Organisation of IT services at MED. Rector Election. Attend election meetings and exercise your right to vote!

A working group headed by Pro-Dean Jan Bj?lie has investigated the implications of a potential merger of IT services at MED with the rest of the IT department at UiO.

Do you know of a talented postdoctoral candidate that would like to move to Oslo and become part of your research group? Then you should explore the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow programme.  Application deadline is 10 September 2025.