UiO is now implementing the email solution that is included in MS365 (formerly Office 365), which can offer all students and employees a more comprehensive way of working, where email and calendar seamlessly work with the other MS365 tools, and all email is protected by two-factor authentication (secure login).
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
From 1 January, the new IT department at UiO is in place. Both USIT and local IT staff from several units at UiO are part of the new department. For most people at UiO, the first ting which will be noticed is that contacting IT support will be easier with one, joint point of contact. For the staff in the new IT department there are organisational changes, some will get a new manager and all will work together.
On January 1st 2023, the new joint IT organization for UiO comes into force. The organisation's vision is to be user-oriented, inclusive, highly competent and creative, and already in November we are seeing results of the user-orientation in the form of a survey that is sent to all faculty, staff and students.
23 researcher projects and two student projects at the University of Oslo have been granted seed funding and student support from the Life Science Growth House. We are happy to see so many promising early-stage innovation ideas. We congratulate all who are involved in the projects and look forward to good collaboration!
Since the start in 2016, more than 350 young health science researchers have received training in health innovation through the School of Health Innovation. From 1 June, the Life Science Growth House is in charge of the school at the University of Oslo.
While most of us are focused on Christmas gifts, family, Christmas movies and peace and quiet, there are those who have completely different plans.