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! The application deadline was 4 April 2024.
Nobel Prize winner Emmanuelle Charpentier as well as Dr. Sjur Bergan and Professor Trond Petersen are among UiO's honorary doctors 2024. They will be formally appointed at UiO's Annual Celebration on 2 September, where topics related to academic freedom and democracy will receive special attention.
Co-Create is all about helping students turn big ideas into real solutions for real-world problems. Students in the Oslo region who are curious about startups and entrepreneurship or just love solving problems can now apply to attend the new student innovation programme Co-Create. Application deadline for the initial design thinking workshops in March is 7 March.
An error in Feide has led to some of UiO?s service providers receiving more information than agreed when users (students and employees) logged in with Feide between 19 January at 11.43 and 25 January at 13.57.
These days, Norwegian cabinet ministers are under fire for uncritically copying others' work. But would cabinet minister GPT UiO have to resign as a minister for higher education? Super simple research shows that the answer is yes.
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Six new teams have been admitted to UiO?s innovation programme SPARK Norway. They will develop their ideas within health-related life sciences for the benefit of patients and society.
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.
Thursday January 11th, KURT arranged the bi-annual seminar “REAL Undervisning” which kick-starts the semester with presentations related to current topics in teaching and learning. This semester's "REAL Undervisning" focused on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in education.
ISC appoints new Fellows in recognition of outstanding contributions to promoting science as a global public good
Every year, IBV's own prizes are awarded. This year, seven prizes were awarded at the Department of Biosciences' Christmas dinner.
The Growth House at University of Oslo is managing a new collaborative project which will strengthen the student innovation culture in the Oslo region. The project has been granted support from Innovation Norway. The goal is to establish more start-ups and contribute to value creation. OsloMet, BI, Kristiania, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Startuplab are collaborators.
Learn how to commercialize research or ideas into business ventures and how to innovate services in a clinical setting. Apply for admission to the spring course in health innovation and entrepreneurship. The course is free of cost.
Are you a PhD student, postdoc or master's student in life sciences and looking for career opportunities outside academia - then you must sign up for Norway Life Science 2024!
Norway Life Science 2024 gathers leading actors in health and life science, to find the solutions that will allow Norway to get more in return from the large investments in health research.
This year's iGEM team from the University of Oslo has won the silver medal in the international final in Paris. The student team has worked on a new rapid test to diagnose endometriosis.
Professor Nils Chr. Stenseth has been awarded the prestigious prize: The Prince Albert I Grand Medal Science Section 2023. The prize was awarded by The Oceanographic Institute in Monaco on November 22nd.
Research talents Julien Resseguier and Erna Davydova, from the Department of Biosciences, have received funding for ground-breaking research projects with FRIPRO funds from the Research Council of Norway.
Jonas Paulsen and Cinzia Progida from the Department of Biosciences have received NOK 10,000,000 from the Research Council, to develop nanotechnology and advanced materials for the study of cell response to nuclear deformation.
Nils Chr. Stenseth, Professor at CEES at IBV and former CEES Chair has, together with his co-PIs, been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant funded by the Horizon Europe (HORIZON) programme.
This summer 48 students have gained work experience from a research project with a scholarship from UiO:Life Science. The closure of this year's summer projects was celebrated with presentations, poster exhibition and prize ceremony.
A record number of 63 applications were submitted when UiO advertised the innovation funds this year. 23 projects have been granted funding from the rector's office to develop solutions to meet societal needs. We congratulate all the research groups.
Students can apply for up to NOK 25 000 for their innovation projects from the new fund the Students Entrepreneurship Fund in Oslo (SEFiO). The University of Oslo is a member of SEFiO through the UiO Growth House.
Companies that want to offer summer jobs through the internship programme supported by the UiO Growth House, can now sign up to attend in 2024. We hope to offer as many students as possible a summer job through the programme. Companies with fewer than ten employees can apply for co-funding of positions.
Full score for doctoral candidate Emilie Hernes Vereide at this year's Research Grand Prix in Bergen, as she received 18 out of 18 points for her lecture on how anthropogenic sound in the ocean affects zooplankton.
The innovation conference Science Impact gathered researchers from academia, hospitals and the institute sector and representatives from start-ups and larger companies.? See pictures from the event.
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