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-Different teaching methods, less mathematics and physics, great guest lecturers and lots of communication between the scientific staff and the students. Joyful!

The UiO Growth House, dScience ¨C Centre for Computational and Data Science, UiO:Life Science and UiO:Energy and Environment are now co-located in Oslo Science Park. ¡®Now the units can work more closely together and draw on each other's expertise as well as extract synergies from each other. This gives UiO the opportunity to develop its strategic initiatives and strengthen the innovation thinking¡¯, says UiO's vice-rector for research and innovation Per Morten Sandset.

UiO:Energy and Environment would like to invite master students and PhDs working on energy, environment and sustainability, to present their research projects at the SDG Conference on February 8, 2023.

The new board of UiO:Energy and Environment had its first board meeting on December 15th. The board decided to continue the initiative's open funding schemes within internationalization, research and education, ensuring that there will be no interruption in these funding mechanisms.

HYDROGENi and HyValue officially launched their activities at a kick-off event in Oslo on October 5th. They are both new centres for environment-friendly energy research (FME) which will help strengthen Norway's research efforts on hydrogen and ammonia over the next eight years. UiO is a key partner in FME HYDROGENi.

This year the UiO and NTNU in collaboration with FME MoZEES (Mobility Zero Emission Energy Systems) and FME NTRANS (Norwegian Centre for Energy Transition Strategies) gathered PhD-students working within the field of energy to the 2022 interdisciplinary NorRen Summer School.

Mar Maller Roig and Rabail Badar Abbasi are the first two interns that the University of Oslo has welcomed through the EU research network ALISTORE ERI. The two are in their final semester before submitting their master theses on materials for rechargeable batteries.  

UiO is a key partner in a new centre for environment-friendly energy research (FME) which will help strengthen Norway's research efforts on hydrogen over the next eight years.

UiO?s strategic priority area UiO:Energy will be continued from 2023 to 2027, with a wider scope which also includes climate and the environment. This was approved by the University Board today.

Want to gain research experience? Apply for a UiO:Energy summer research project!

UiO:Energy?s call for new Thematic Research Groups have resulted in applications involving researchers from all together four faculties and Centre for Development and the Environment.

UiO:Energy would like to invite UiO master students and PhDs, working on energy and sustainability, to present their research projects at the UiO:Energy Forum 2021 on November 24.

One of three thematic research groups funded by UiO:Energy was recently launched. Circular Energy is focusing on the role of maintenance and repair of digitalisation technologies in reducing climate emissions.

This year the University of Bergen, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Oslo gathered 29 PhD-students working within the field of energy to the 2021 interdisciplinary NorRen Summer School.

A specific 2030 climate target and the establishment of an Oslo Sustainability Centre at Lower Blindern are some of the proposals in the draft for a new and comprehensive climate and environmental strategy for UiO. Students and staff are invited to provide input.

For the very first time, UiO:Energy has announced funding for convergence environments ¨C interdisciplinary research groups that are to address major societal challenges related to renewable energy and a sustainable energy transformation.

UiO:Energy will fund educational summer research projects between April and October 2020 for 10 students enrolled in their last year of a bachelor program, or in their first year of a master-program at UiO. We now invite UiO researchers to suggest projects for one or two students per research group.

Application deadline:  January 31,  2021. Closed

UiO:Energy will fund a number of summer research projects within the field of sustainable energy. Students currently enrolled in their last year of a bachelor program, a master program or a relevant professional degree program at the University of Oslo are eligible to apply.  The students selected for summer research projects will each receive a stipend of NOK 40 000. Application deadline: March 1 2021. Closed

The project: Deciphering dynamics of salt crystal formation in porous reservoir rocks ¨C A reactive transport study, have been given a extended deadline to march 8th 

This year, we experienced a boom in digital events dealing with topics related to sustainable energy.  If you get bored or want some professional input during the festive season, we have put together a list of recorded webinars and more that could be of interest.

Zeyringer is happy to have contributed with her ideas for a common Nordic zero carbon energy future. The online competition that took place on November the 3^rd, sparked thoughts on how the participants could work together in the future to seek funding opportunities for such a project.

¨C We are happy to assist with matching different disciplines and to provide guidance on writing the sketches. People should have a low threshold for contacting us, encourages Vebj?rn Bakken, Director of UiO:Energy.

From 17-21 August, the University of Bergen, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and UiO:Energy had the pleasure of gathering 31 PhD-students working within the fields of energy to the 2020 interdisciplinary summer school on flexible energy systems, NorRen.

For the first time, UiO: Energy announces funding for convergence environments within sustainable energy. An information meeting about this will be held ¨C including researcher-speed-dating ¨C on 15 September. Thereafter, the deadline for submitting a mandatory sketch is 30 October, while the final application deadline is expected to be 31 December.