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Newsletter from UiO:Life Science September 2023
Apply for admission to the honours certificate in Life Science Innovation - deadline 15 October
Master's students who want to pursue a career in innovation and entrepreneurship, can apply for admission to the newly established honours certificate in Life Science Innovation. The application deadline is 15 October. Start-up will be January 2024.
![Illustration SPARK Norway innovation project](https://www.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/life-science/innovation/spark/pictures/2023/spark-norway_annonsering_ny_utlysning.webp)
New call from SPARK Norway
Now you can apply for admission to UiO:Life Science' innovation programme SPARK Norway. A great opportunity to develop innovative ideas further into new technology, treatments or services.
![The SPARK Norway team in Copenhagen.](https://www.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/life-science/innovation/spark/pictures/2023/spark-norway-team2_1000.webp)
Nordic SPARK teams at Nordic Innovation Fair
The SPARK Nordic programmes participated together for the first time at Nordic Innovation Fair in Copenhagen.
Calls
Seed Funds to initiate collaboration across the alliance's institutions
Open for students, researchers and research administrative staff
Application deadline: 15 October
Artists can apply for REAL art to work creatively together with researchers
REAL art is the artist-in-residence program at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UiO
Application deadline: 6 November
Co-working space for interdiciplinary project groups
UiO offers a co-working space for researchers working on topics related to climate, environment or sustainability.
Application deadline: running
SPARK Norway Innovation programme
Deadline: 9 November
Internationalization support from UiO:Life Science
Deadline 1 December
Apply for event support from UiO:Life Science
Deadline 1 December
Open call
For interdisciplinary projects
Deadline: Running
Course development support
For departments and faculties
Deadline: Running
News
- Can healthy eating save the world? In Domus Bibliotheca on 26 September. Researchers from UiO, NMBU, FHI and the leader of the Farmers' Association dicussed what is sustainable food, can you save the world at the same time by eating healthy and can we become self-sufficient in Norway? (in Norwegian)
- Franziska Klaas from the convergence environment AnthroTox defended her thesis Persistent Organic Pollutants becoming Multiple: An ethnography of encountering pollutants in science, policy, and waste incineration for the degree of PhD.
- Listen how the convergence environments REAL:Life investigate whether knowledge of historical medicinal plants can be used to develop new medicines (link to EKKO, NRK P2 18.09.23, in Norwegian)
The Life Science Building
Are you eager to see how the life science building will look like? Watch the film that shows how it will look like inside.
Events
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25 October SPARK Norway Educational Forum
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6 December SPARK Europe Educational Forum organised by SPARK Norway
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13 –14 February 2024 Norway Life Science