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The University of Oslo aims to halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. In 2022, the total emissions were reduced by eight percent compared to 2018. 

There was a knife incident in a building associated with UiO today. Two of our employees were injured. The police have the perpetrator under control.

Yesterday we welcomed around 7000 new students to UiO. A large group of buddies are ready to guide them through the start of studies programme.

You can either have a guided tour with one of the hosts, or use our brand new audio guide.

Now students who want to pursue a career in innovation and entrepreneurship can take an honours certificate in Life Science Innovation. From 15 September it will possible to apply for admission, the application deadline is 15 October. The studies will start in January 2024.

Anders Jahre's Main Award for 2023 is awarded to Professor Maiken Nedergaard, University of Copenhagen. Anders Jahre's prize for young researchers is given to Assistant Professor Marcus Buggert, Karolinska Institutet.

The faculty is allocating just under NOK 1.7 million to stimulate academic development and research on the consequences of the war in Ukraine. 

The University of Oslo annually awards five prizes for research, young researchers, education, dissemination and innovation.

Congratulations to 16 research groups at the University of Oslo that have been granted seed funding! The researchers will use the funding to further develop their own innovation ideas with the aim to put the research to use. All who applied for seed funding, will now be offered follow-up from the UiO Growth House.

UiO has received a total of 18 Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship projects. It gives researchers the opportunity to work on projects in another country, and at the same time UiO can bring talented researchers to Norway.

The University of Oslo has students and staff who are affected by what is happening to friends and family hit by the earthquake in Turkey, Syria, and nearby areas. ¨C We want to express our deepest condolences to those afflicted by this enormous tragedy, says Rector Svein St?len.

The Board of the University has established new guidelines for how violations of research ethics norms are to be processed. This is part of the ongoing work with research ethics at UiO.

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.

Hanne Flinstad Harbo won the election for the position of dean at the Faculty of Medicine with 53% of the votes. She will be the faculty's first female dean.

23 researcher projects and two student projects at the University of Oslo have been granted seed funding and student support from the Life Science Growth House. We are happy to see so many promising early-stage innovation ideas. We congratulate all who are involved in the projects and look forward to good collaboration!

Wednesday 20 April it was time to celebrate the new projects that have completed UiO:Life Science's innovation programme SPARK Norway. At the same time the Vaccibody Innovation Award was presented for the first time.

The Life Science Growth House and business clusters kick off innovation hangouts where researchers, students and businesses can build networks. In this way, we will facilitate collaboration that puts more research from UiO to use for the benefit of patients and society.

On 17 February, the Life Science Growth House ¨C the new innovation unit for life sciences at the University of Oslo ¨C was officially opened. The Growth House will help researchers and students with the innovation process. See pictures from the opening where we gathered Oslo¡¯s innovation ecosystem for life sciences.

EIT Health Scandinavia, part of one of the largest life science initiatives world-wide, is now expanding its network to include University of Oslo (UiO) as an associate partner.

Medication use during pregnancy, healthy aging, cancer, organoid technology, fibrosing diseases and cognitive function throughout life. These are societal challenges that will be examined by new interdisciplinary life science research groups at the University of Oslo.