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Newsletter September 2023

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

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.

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.

Read more about the building

Events