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 election of new representatives for temporary academic staff for the Faculty Board is opened. Place your vote before the deadline January 24 at 12:00 pm (noon).
The Norwegian center for science education develops the online resources Realfagsløyper to strengthen the science education competence of kindergarten teachers and teachers. Realfagsløypene will be a tool for local professional development and will be launched at realfagsløyper.no in April 2018.
The faculty's activities are conducted in many buildings across Blindern. Many of these buildings, especially at Nedre Blindern, including Kristine Bonnevie's house, need refurbishment. This is expensive and something the University of Oslo can never do alone. What shall we do?
It is the MN faculty’s ambition to be one of Europe's most attractive places for education and research in science and technology. Our new strategy, currently under way, will definitely maintain this ambition of looking to Europe and beyond.
The new innovation programme SPARK Norway at UiO has admitted the first research groups – so called SPARKees. They will develop their ideas within health-related life sciences further for the benefit of patients and society.
The biggest thing that happened in UiO:Life Science in 2017 was of course the announcement of the start-up grant for the life science building on the national budget for 2018! Read about this and other things that has happened in the initiative so far in 2017.
The University of Oslo will commence using the new learning management system Canvas in the autumn semester of 2018. Canvas is an advanced system that will give us new possibilities in course development, teaching and student contact.
The size of Horizon2020 is approximately 75 billion Euros, and about half of this will be granted over the next 3 years. Our EU-team is available to anyone who wants advice on the EU-system and/or assistance with applications.
Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics (RoCS) at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics officially opened on November 1st 2017. RoCS is one of five new Centres of Excellence that were awarded UiO earlier this year.
SPARK Norway is a two-year innovation programme to further develop ideas within health-related life sciences for the benefit of patients and society. Researchers from UiO and affiliated research groups at OUS or Ahus can apply UiO:Life Science to be included in the programme.
Knowledge and competence in science and technology is and will be important for society development. Where should science and technology at the University of Oslo be in 2030? The Faculty Board has decided to work on developing a new strategy for science and technology at UiO. We begin now!
I have been asked this question many times since I started as a Vice Dean for Innovation and External Relations in October. I do not have the final answer to that question, and we will define together how we will organize the work at the faculty.
For the students, summer schools, and exchange activities that lasts a few weeks are very attractive. It is more challenging to entice students to spend a semester abroad.
Our first news in this renewed newsletter from the Faculty is that we have decided to continue with our monthly newsletter. The lifescience building will also be a reality, and our new students on our new bachelor programs have studied for almost two months.
President Lyndon Johnson reportedly said that Gerald Ford too dumb to walk while chewing gum, strongly suggesting that Ford lacked the intelligence required to handle two tasks at the same time.
The aDNA laboratory at the Department of Biosciences is a powerfull tool in UiOs bouquet of infrastructures for lifesciences.
We had a full house when Shinya Yamanaka, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, visited Oslo on September 6. He gave a lecture about a new era of medicine with induced pluripotent stem cells – iPS cells – and participated in a panel discussion on implications of stem cell therapy for patients and society. Watch the videos and see pictures from the events.
Minister of Education and Research Torbjørn Røe Isaksen visited UiO today with promises of a start-up grant for UiO's new life science building
Apply UiO:Life Science for support for internationalization, conferences and other events. The application deadline is 1st of December 2017.
UiO:Life Science plans the launch of the SPARK innovation programme, developed by Stanford University. The goal is to get more innovation out of basic research. The other two European SPARK programs visit Oslo this summer to share their experiences, and one of UiO's PhD students will test the program's summer school in Japan.
The board of UiO:Life Science has decided to support the newly established School of Health Innovation at UiO, NTNU and Karolinska Institutet. With this UiO:Life Science wants to contribute to establish a new strong player in the UiO ecosystem of innovation.
Shinya Yamanaka, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, will visit Oslo on September 6. He will give a lecture about a new era of medicine with induced pluripotent stem cells – iPS cells – and participate in a panel discussion about the ethical aspects of stem cell therapy. The events are open to all.
At the life science lunches in March and April researchers from five different faculties at UiO talked about their innovative life science research across disciplines. Watch the recordings of the lunches.
Apply UiO:Life Science for support for internationalization, trainee positions in the life science industry, conferences and other events. The application deadline was 1st of June 2017 for all the calls.
