Welcome to bioSPIRE, the latest addition to the bioCEED family of student-coordinated platforms. bioSPIRE, a subtle mix of “spire” ([ˈspiːre]: sprout in Norwegian) and “inspire”, has a double purpose: to help bachelor students in biology (the “sprouts“) get a taste of practical biology by participating to a more experienced student’s...
bioBreakfast is a pilot project at UNIS, arranged by the bioCEED student representatives. The project is aiming for students inspiring and advising each other across graduate levels and faculties, with a main focus on biology topics. The purpose of bioBreakfast is to invite master and PhD students to have a...
The message of biORACLE was spread at the poster session of the OIKOS conference in Trondheim this month, with the intention of inspiring others to start up similar projects at their home institutions. The importance of inviting students into a safe learning environment with tools such as waffles, coffee and...
The Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in education (SIU) has now open calls for applications for funding in six programmes aimed at cooperation in higher education with countries outside the EU. Total funding available is approximately NOK 136 million: INPART: 24 April 2018 NORPART: 31 May 2018 Partnership programme with North America:...
Are you curious about what bioCEED achieved during 2017? Peek into our annual report HERE.
Friday, February 16, 2018 is a big day for bioCEED, and especially for Lucas Jeno who will defend his PhD degree at the University of Bergen with the dissertation: “The antecedents and consequences of students’ autonomous motivation. The relation between need-support, motivation, and academic achievement». We congratulate Lucas with an...
On February 7th will biORAKEL start again at the Department of Biological Sciences (BIO). This will be its third semester of existence, and it is looking like a very promising season for the student-driven project funded by bioCEED. No less than 12 oracles have been recruited this semester. They will work in...
On January 10th, NOKUT launched a report based on the Teacher Survey (Underviserundersøkelsen), which received much attention in national media. From headlines in newspapers and other media we were led to believe that a large part of teachers were particularly dissatisfied with the qualifications students entering their programs had to...
We are happy to say welcome to our new student representatives at UNIS – Henninge and Jenny! They will join us in the bioCEED team for one semester and will be responsible among other things for arranging the bioCEED student meetings and running the bioBREAKFAST. Henninge is a biology student...
Writing skills among young biology students is often a subject for debates and discussions. The course BIO103 taught at the Department of Biological Sciences, UiB deals with this issue by offering a short series of colloquia aiming at giving bachelor students skills in reading scientific articles, and writing better lab...
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning invites you to join its 15th annual conference, which will be hosted in Bergen, Norway, from October 24 to 27, 2018. International scholars and educators will come together to share recent work and to discuss how our collective efforts will...
Last week we got an early Christmas present when the NOKUT board decided to extend bioCEEDs status as a Centre for Excellence in Education by five additional years! The decision was made after an extensive interim evaluation (which you can read about here, here and here!), a process that has...
The teaching staff at BIO (UiB) gathered for the Annual Teachers Retreat in beautiful surroundings in Os outside Bergen 30 November- 01 December. At the teachers retreat the BIO teaching staff and bioCEED meet to share experience about teaching and learning and to present examples and findings from their own...
2017 is almost over, and with the end of the semester comes the time for thanking one of our excellent student representatives and welcoming a new one! bioCEED would like to thank Ragnhild Gya for serving as a student representative in bioCEED at UiB for the last 1.5 years! Ragnhild...
My name is Pernille Bronken Eidesen, and I am working as Associate professor in the Arctic Biology department at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). Our department is one of the four main partners in bioCEED. I am the deputy leader of bioCEED, and have the responsibility for bioCEED activities...
On Tuesday, November 21st, more than 160 representatives from Higher Education institutions across Norway met at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA) to discuss alignment in educational programs, at the invitation from the Ministry of Education and Research. The conference was a follow-up of the recent White...
Teachers in BIO104 – Comparative physiology have been delivered their first video for the lab course in microbiology taught at BIO during the spring semester. The course introduces to the bi-phasic (diauxic) growth of Vibrio natriegens in a mixture of two distinct carbon sources. In this short video which you can...
Under the Teach2Learn project, master students have produced a new series of video tutorials in the course Ocean Science (BIO325), led by professor Anne Gro Vea Salvanes at the Department of Biology, UiB. The tutorials act as additional teaching support to introduce fellow students to sampling methods and instruments used to collect...
The Research Council of Norways FINNUT programme announced NOK 72 million in funding for Researcher Projects on and for the educational sector with a deadline 22nd Nov. bioCEED submitted two proposals for research projects within our focus areas. The proposal ENIGMA: The hidden structures and processes promoting and hindering educational...
During late November, bioCEED hosted a meeting for hosts and students that are part of the work placement course at the Department of Biology. Students who enroll in the course spend 140 hours working as a biologist at a workplace. The intention of the dialogue meeting was to continue the...