2023

A researcher from Gaza, Mohammed Hassouna, affiliated with the E-Pal project led by LINK at the University of Oslo, was killed in Gaza on December 17.

UiO is one of the nine partners in the university alliance Circle U. Now, six new Academic Chairs, as well as an Academic Director, have been appointed. These are part-time positions with a special responsibility for developing educational activities and opportunities across the universities.

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.

No?lle Streeton at the Faculty of Humanities and Victor Greiff at the Faculty of Medicine have received ERC Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council.

A record number of 63 applications were submitted when UiO advertised the innovation funds this year. 23 projects have been granted funding to develop solutions to meet societal needs. We congratulate all the research groups.

Five promising researchers at the University of Oslo have been awarded ERC Starting Grants from the European Research Council. The projects showcase the breadth of UiO's disciplines, ranging from sustainability and marginalization to plasma accelerators and sleep.

The University of Oslo aims to halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. In 2022, the total emissions were reduced by eight percent compared to 2018. 

There was a knife incident in a building associated with UiO today. Two of our employees were injured. The police have the perpetrator under control.

Yesterday we welcomed around 7000 new students to UiO. A large group of buddies are ready to guide them through the start of studies programme.

You can either have a guided tour with one of the hosts, or use our brand new audio guide.

Anders Jahre's Main Award for 2023 is awarded to Professor Maiken Nedergaard, University of Copenhagen. Anders Jahre's prize for young researchers is given to Assistant Professor Marcus Buggert, Karolinska Institutet.

The University of Oslo annually awards five prizes for research, young researchers, education, dissemination and innovation.

UiO has received a total of 18 Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship projects. It gives researchers the opportunity to work on projects in another country, and at the same time UiO can bring talented researchers to Norway.

The University of Oslo has students and staff who are affected by what is happening to friends and family hit by the earthquake in Turkey, Syria, and nearby areas. ¨C We want to express our deepest condolences to those afflicted by this enormous tragedy, says Rector Svein St?len.

The Board of the University has established new guidelines for how violations of research ethics norms are to be processed. This is part of the ongoing work with research ethics at UiO.

The UiO Growth House, dScience ¨C Centre for Computational and Data Science, UiO:Life Science and UiO:Energy and Environment are now co-located in Oslo Science Park. ¡®Now the units can work more closely together and draw on each other's expertise as well as extract synergies from each other. This gives UiO the opportunity to develop its strategic initiatives and strengthen the innovation thinking¡¯, says UiO's vice-rector for research and innovation Per Morten Sandset.