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Funding of convergence environments in life sciences

UiO:Life Science will fund several convergence environments – interdisciplinary research groups that address major challenges within the life sciences. The application deadline was 1st of March 2017 and the results were announced in May.

Important documents

The UiO strategy for life sciences

What are life sciences?

In our strategy we define the life sciences as including

  • all scientific disciplines studying the composition, structure and functions of living organisms
  • medicine and biology constitute the core, backed by chemistry, physics and mathematical subjects

This strategy also includes the social sciences and humanities when these

  • examine causal relationships between behaviour or consciousness and the biological foundation,
  • or analyse challenges arising in the encounter between the application of the life sciences and society’s values and priorities

Convergence

Convergence in research and education entails a ground-breaking integration through extensive collaboration among researchers from different disciplines with the aim of creating new areas of knowledge, new applications and opportunities.

Read the UiO strategy for the life sciences.

We received 22 applications within the application deadline 1 st of March 2017. An expert panel met in the end of  April to evaluate the full project proposals. The UiO:Life Science board made he final decisions.

Background

UiO:Life Science will fund several “convergence environments” – interdisciplinary research groups that address major challenges within the life sciences domain, which are characterized by collaboration across conventional disciplinary boundaries. Beyond advancing life sciences research at UiO, they have two specific goals:

  1. To integrate humanities and social sciences in UiO:Life Science and ensure that research priorities are in line with societal