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.
An initiative at the Faculty of Medicine has become a donation scheme that everyone at UiO can use: PCs and other IT equipment to be phased out can be donated to primary schools in Ukraine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Now students who want to pursue a career in innovation and entrepreneurship can take an honours certificate in Life Science Innovation. From 15 September it will possible to apply for admission, the application deadline is 15 October. The studies will start in January 2024.
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 faculty is allocating just under NOK 1.7 million to stimulate academic development and research on the consequences of the war in Ukraine.
The University of Oslo annually awards five prizes for research, young researchers, education, dissemination and innovation.
Congratulations to 16 research groups at the University of Oslo that have been granted seed funding! The researchers will use the funding to further develop their own innovation ideas with the aim to put the research to use. All who applied for seed funding, will now be offered follow-up from the UiO Growth House.
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.
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 14 March 2023.
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. – 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.
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