Tore Wig will research the conditions for science in autocracies and Manjana Milkoreit the long-term governance of climate challenges. Both receive two million euros from the EU’s prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. Congratulations!
The Academic Breakfast Club is a brand-new breakfast seminar series that offers professional development for researchers at the Faculty of Social Sciences, accompanied by coffee and baked goods. Nearly sixty people found their way to the opening event in the series, which focused on how to succeed in grant writing.
Who gets elected in Swedish politics, and whether elected politicians differ from the rest of the population, were among the themes that this year’s Eilert Sundt lecturer, Torsten Persson, addressed.
While the rest of us have been on holiday, Mesut Kasikci has been swapping screws and parts on chairs in our auditoriums to ensure everything runs smoothly at the start of the semester. – I like challenges and try to save as much of the furniture as I can, he says.
The professional programme in psychology, the bachelor's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics, the one-year study in economics, the bachelor's degree in economics and data science, and the Honours programme in social sciences are among the most attractive study programmes at UiO.
The government's AI billion has been distributed. Six research centres for artificial intelligence have each received a share, with the Faculty of Social Sciences involved in half of them.
The Crown Prince was there, and the mayor was there. In addition to politicians, representatives from the business community and civil society, researchers, and students. This year’s Democracy Conference on April 4 was fully booked and addressed important questions in a turbulent time.
