Research and innovation news
Health innovation on the agenda?during the official visit to Canada?
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UiO:Life Science wants to learn from places where business and academia work closely to get better research and more innovation. Our administrative leader joined Oslo Medtech in the business delegation that followed the Crown Prince Couple to Canada recently. A virtual 3D tour of the planned life sciences building was one of the things they got to see.?
Status funding of convergence environments:
International evaluation of project sketches
An international expert panel is evaluating the 31 project sketches that UiO:Life Science has received from those who want to apply for funding to establish convergence environments. When the expert panel has finished the evaluation within December 15th the call for a full project proposal will be out. The application deadline will be March 1st next year. Convergence environments are interdisciplinary research groups that will solve grand challenges related to health and environment.
A New Centre?for Excellence in Education at UiO
Centre for Computing in Science?Education (CCSE) is a?new Centre?for Excellence in Education (SFU) at the Department of Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics. The centre wants to prepare the students more effectively for the contemporary interdisciplinary workplace. From the autumn of 2017 also biology students will learn programming.
The head of the centre, Professor Anders Malthe-S?renssen, is a member of the advisory management team of UiO:Life Science. At the Oslo Life Science Conference in February 2016 he talked about ?Computing and Innovative Education?.
22.5 million for UiO from the Norwegian Cancer Society
Three of the Faculty of Medicine’s research communities and a research community at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, have received funding amounting to millions of Norwegian kroner from the Norwegian Cance