Who can apply?
Academic staff, postdocs, PhD-students and student organisations at UiO.
Next application deadline
1 June 2026
Funding
Each applicant may receive a maximum of NOK 100,000. UiO:Life Science’s funding can constitute up to 50 percent of the expected project-specific costs. Other contributions, such as a registration fee if applicable, can cover the rest of the project costs. The budget should be planned so that expenses and income are balanced.
What can the funding cover?
- streaming
- filming and photographing of the event
- hiring a venue
- refreshments
- reasonable travel and accommodation for speakers
The funding does not cover
- work hours for UiO-employees or co-organizer
- diet allowance for UiO-employees?or co-organizer
- travel expenses and accommodation for co-organizers?
Such expenses cannot be included in the total budget.
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Objectives and scope
The purpose of the event support is to fulfilling the ambitions set forth in our Strategy 2025-2029. This includes to:
- disseminate knowledge about life sciences in the society and promote an inviting, inclusive, and development-oriented culture within the field of life sciences.
We encourage scientists within both health-related and environmental-related life sciences to apply.
The University of Oslo aims to reduce carbon emissions from travel by 2030, while ensuring that professional activities are not affected. We ask applicants to consider digital or hybrid solutions for participants and/or speakers, and to describe their considerations in the application.
Requirements
To be eligible, the event must:
- Be targeted at a general audience
- Be open, meaning it allows participants beyond members and invited guests
- Be publicly announced
- Include in the application a clear budget that adheres to the funding limitations described above
- Specify reasonable travel expenses and accommodation for speakers, including?the name, title and workplace of each speaker, documented by web search results or a price quote
- Take place in Norway
- Have an interdisciplinary profile
- Involve University of Oslo employees who have real influence on the event
- Take place after the application deadline
The event is not eligble for funding if:
- It is a regular departmental event that should normally be funded by a faculty or department
- The same (single) event has previously received support from UiO:Life Science
Please have the following information ready before you start filling out the application form:
- Name of event
- Expected number of participants
- Planned date, time and location
- Collaboration partners
- Considerations for digital participation
- Description of interdisciplinary profile and target audience
- Event description (approximately 300 words)
- Budget, total cost and amount?applied for
- Information about other funding sources and registration fee
- Description of planned promotion
- Attachment: A reasonable and realistic budget must be specified. Cost estimates should be documented by web search results or price quote.
Evaluation of applications
A dedicated committee will evaluate all applications. You will not receive support if the requirements listed above have not been met. The most common reasons for rejection of applications are:
- the budget is not specified
- travel expenses and accommodation are not reasonable
- listed expenses include items that cannot be covered (see above)
- the event is closed (i.e. not publicly announced and accepting participants who are not invited. If so, see possibilities under Internationalization support)
If we cannot support all applications, priority will be given to:
- events that aim?to promote greater cooperation across faculties.
- applicants who have not received similar support previously.
All applicants will receive a response within one month after the application deadline.
Visibility of support and follow-up
Successful applicants must submit a report on the funded event to UiO:Life Science within three months after the event.
The support from UiO:Life Science must be acknowledged by stating "the event has been supported by UiO:Life Science" on the event's website at uio.no and elsewhere together with the University of Oslo logo. Download?English logo,?Norwegian logo
UiO:Life Science will inform about the event in the event calendars and newsletters.
Questions
Contact us at info@lifescience.uio.no
The call has been modified 17 of March 2026.