Who can apply?
Prospective project leaders with a PhD degree employed at the University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital (OUS) or Akershus University Hospital (Ahus).
Next application deadline
14 February 2025 (for projects during summer 2025). Simultaneously, students apply.
Funding
Project leaders for wet-lab projects will receive up to NOK 10 000 for expendables from UiO:Life Science.
Students receive a 50,000 NOK stipend from UiO:Life Science. Note that they do not get paid to work on the project, they receive the stipend to compensate for the lack of other income they could have had in the period. The stipend is transferred after confirmation that the student has started the project and is unconditional with respect to the results obtained during the project.
Further description
Summer research projects should have an educational profile and give students hands-on experience with real-life research. The projects may involve one or two students and can be theoretical, practical (with or without wet-lab) or computational, and should address a societal challenge. We encourage projects that have an interdisciplinary perspective and are suitable for students from different disciplinary backgrounds. For this reason, projects should not demand very advanced background knowledge. The project cannot contribute to ECTS credits (studiepoeng) or be part of or preparation for a (future) master project.
It is possible for a project leader to offer more than one project, it is then mandatory to indicate which project has the highest priority. If we receive more project proposals than can be funded, only the highest priority projects will be participating in the draw.
Mandatory matchmaking seminar
Selected projects must participate with a poster in a matchmaking seminar Tuesday 11 March 14:00-17:00 at Blindern. Here you will meet the students who have applied and you will present your project. After the seminar, you will rate the students you consider eligible for your project. The students will also rate the projects. UiO:Life Science will eventually combine the ratings and assign students to all projects present at the seminar.
The first 150 students to sign up, will be admitted to the matchmaking seminar. In the end, approximately 50 students will be assigned to around 40 projects.
Workload and work plan
Students will perform research under supervision integrated in a UiO, OUS or Ahus research group within life sciences for six weeks full-time equivalent. The work can be full time or part time, but needs to be fully defined and not “flexible” in a way that ties the student up even more than the assigned work.
The exact work plan, which may start as early as April and must be completed by 1 October, and deliveries for the project will be up to you to decide upon in dialogue with the student(s) assigned. You should meet the student personally, discuss these issues and sign the contract shortly after the student has been assigned to the project.
Closing event in October
The students must make a poster on the project and their own learning outcomes for the closing event in October each year. In August/September the students will also be offered a seminar on scientific presentation techniques, including poster design.