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Innovation - medical routine - successful business: the history of the artificial joint

The interview volume „Maurice E. Müller und die Entwicklung künstlicher Hüftgelenke in der Schweiz“ tells the exciting story of a new medical technology and a new industry worth billions. The book, edited by Niklaus Ingold, Peter E. Ochsner and Hubert Steinke, is freely accessible on Bern Open Publishing BOP.

Introduction to Critical Disability Studies Lecture series, HS 2023

The Equalities Committee of the Faculty of Humanities is committed to fostering the academic study of social inequalities and injustices. To this end, we are delighted to announce a special lecture series in the Autumn Semester 2023 providing an Introduction to Critical Disability Studies.

Nature: Quota for free open access publishing has been reached

The annual article quota for Nature Research Journals under the Read & Publish contract with SpringerNature is exhausted. Therefore, no APC costs can be covered under this agreement until the end of 2023.

EUA Workshop leadership in doctoral education

1-2 February 2024, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic)
Workshop: leadership in doctoral education. Over two days, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of leadership in doctoral education through a combination of presentations and interactive sessions. The event will look into the development of leadership skills for supervisors, doctoral school staff and doctoral candidates.

No contract (yet) with Elsevier for a new Read and Publish agreement from 2024

The Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries has announced that negotiations with Elsevier have not yet led to an agreement that is acceptable to both parties. The current contract expires on December 31, 2023. The University Library of Bern is making preparations for a situation without an agreement as from 2024 and will provide further information shortly.

New search tools: oa.finder and B!SON

Are you looking for the right journal or funding possibilities for your open access publication? The University Library has added two new tools to its website: The oa.finder shows you the funding options for your open access publication. B!SON helps you find suitable open access journals for your manuscript.

No Hate Speech You’ve been targeted – what should you do?

If you are personally affected, then you can contact the contact point at the University of Bern or make use of the free emergency assistance in the event of attacks. The University of Bern is also interested in receiving reports of incidents in order to better understand the phenomenon and take targeted measures: Here you can report low-threshold incidents also anonymously.

Wiley: Quota for free open access publishing soon to be reached

The article quota set by swissuniversities under the Read and Publish agreement with Wiley will likely be exhausted by begin of October 2023. This means that until the end of 2023, members of the University of Bern as well as affiliated institutions will have to acquire funding themselves for APCs for open access publications in hybrid journals at Wiley.

Interdisciplinary Public Health Sciences (PHS) Course Program offered by the University of Bern

This structured course program aims to foster a comprehensive understanding of Public Health and develop competencies in key research methods and applications. The program is recommended to PhD students working on public health-related topics and/ or interested to learn about public health and explore possibilities for interdisciplinary collaborations and networking in this field.

Fall semester 2023: Compass UniBE: preparatory program for refugee students

With the establishment of a preparatory program, refugee students are given the opportunity to access and participate in tertiary education.

War in the Ukraine

If the MVUB can support anyone anywhere (eg. through peer support, legal advice or by helping you/someone else get the help they need), browse through our website mvub.unibe.ch where we have posted a lot of useful links, or send an email to info.mvub@unibe.ch.

Alliance Française Berne: Aux francophones et francophiles de la région de Berne - Bienvenue!

Frontiers: quota for open access publications is exhausted

For members of the University of Bern this means that until the end of 2023, they need to find alternative funding to cover the APCs for Open Access publications in Frontiers journals.

The Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship: Call for Applications

The Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship has officially launched the Call for Applications for the 2024–25 academic year. The fellowship is open to applicants from all around the world.

Interviewtraining «It’s a Match! How to increase your chances in the job interview»

The aim of the project, which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is to investigate how job interviews can be designed to make response behaviour more comparable between job applicants and, based on this, to validly predict future behaviour in the job.
In this context, we offer people who are currently looking for a job or who are interested in improving their interviewing skills (target group: doctoral students) to participate in a simulated job interview.

Funding program «UniBE Short Travel Grants for (Post)Docs»

The University of Bern, by way of its «UniBE Short Travel Grants for (Post)Docs» funding program, supports short research stays abroad for doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers.

There are two submission deadlines per year, 01 March and 01 September.

SciFlow makes scientific writing easier

SciFlow makes it easy to write and format scientific texts - whether for a specific journal or as a student paper. SciFlow also offers attractive templates, chat support, webinars and text checking. The University Library of Bern has licensed SciFlow for the entire UniBE campus.

Support Center for ICT-Aided Teaching and Research (iLUB)

The iLUB supports teaching staff and researchers, lecturers and assistants in their endeavors to enhance teaching, research and cooperation through an adequate deployment of information and communication technologies (ICT).

Didaktipps.ch

The office for higher education offers short, practical information for teaching on their speciialized website "didaktipps.ch".

Seed money - The University of Bern offers seed money for researchers coordinating European collaborative projects

The internal funding programmes enable researchers at the University of Bern to obtain start-up funding for participation in European collaborative projects. Further information is available from the Grants Office.

Sozialfonds der SUB

Der Sozialfonds der SUB steht SUB- bzw. MVUB-Mitgliedern und Mobilitätsstudierenden in akuten finanziellen Notlagen zur Seite. Zur Überbrückung der finanziellen Schwierigkeiten kann die Sozialfondskommission einen Betrag von bis zu CHF 5000.- in Form eines Unterstützungsbeitrags oder Darlehens sprechen. Hier die Informationen zur Antragstellung.