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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.

Le Petit Prince, l’astronaute et les exoplanètes – regards croisés.

Conférence publique et poétique en français avec l’astronaute Claude Nicollier, les astrophysicien.n.e s Jeanne Davoult et Brice-Olivier Demory ainsi qu’Olivier d’Agay, petit-neveu d’Antoine de Saint Exupéry. 8 juin 2023, de 18h30-20h00, bâtiment « Exakte Wissenschaften », auditoire 099, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Berne

COMET Career Programme

This career programme of the University of Bern is aimed specifically at female postdoctoral researchers of all faculties.
Information event: Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Time: 16.15-17.30 h, online via zoom. Please register via e-mail for the information event: info.afc@unibe.ch

Start of the career programme: 12 June 2023

Change of automatic renewal in case of maternity

From now on, the distribution of maternity allowance to basic funds will be equated with the procedure for third-party funding. Previously, in the case of maternity, the employment of a deputy was calculated without points. Now the Institute will be compensated for the employment of the mother in personnel points, regardless of whether a deputy is employed or not.

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.

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. (11 May 2023)

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.

Webinar: ENLIGHT Lecture Series on “Digital revolution and Impact of digitization”

The format is a webinar with 2-3 15-minute presentations by young researchers, followed by a discussion and an online networking event. Start: 10 May 2023

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

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.

The University Library of Bern is helping to build the future of Open Access

As part of the EU project CRAFT Open Access, the University Library of Bern is involved in developing better tools and services for publishing scientific journals.

News about Gold Open Access from 2023

The University of Bern and swissuniversities will continue to provide funds in 2023 to support researchers in publishing in OA. More Information can be found on on the page «Open Access Publication Fund at the University of Bern". The agreement with Frontiers for publications by researchers of the University of Bern has been renewed for 2023 aswell. This means that until the credit balance is exhausted, publications that meet the fund's eligibility criteria will be paid for directly by the fund without the need for authors to submit an application. More information is available on the same web page in the «Frontiers" tab menu.

News about Read & Publish agreements from 2023

The already existing Read & Publish portfolio at University of Bern could be expanded with American Chemical Society (ACS) (2023-2025). In addition to the existing agreement, Swissuniversities has negotiated a new article quota with SpringerNature, thanks to which around 50-60% of the annual publication volume can be published free of charge in the hybrid titles of the Nature Research Journals. The existing agreement with SpringerNature has also been extended until the end of 2025. Full details of the agreements can be found in the «ACS», «Nature» and «Springer» tab menu on the Read and Publish page.

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.

The University of Bern joins ENLIGHT alliance

Since 2022, Swiss universities have also been able to participate as "associated partners" in European university alliances for the first time. The University of Bern is a member of ENLIGHT, an alliance of research-intensive full universities, since December 1, 2022.

Innosuisse Start-Up Training

The Start-Up Training program is open to members of the intermediate staff, professors and students of all faculties.

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".

Interview training for job applications offered by the University of Zurich

Planning to apply for a new job soon? And are you interested in improving your interview skills? Great, It's a Match - we look forward to your participation!

Stop Hate Speech

Sending a clear signal against online hate speech: The University of Bern condemns hate speech of any kind and helps its researchers take action against it. Due to recent incidents that occurred in the spring of 2021, a working group was tasked with examining this phenomenon and devising steps to combat it.

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.

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF): Support measures for scientists from Ukraine

The SNSF is making available 1 million francs to host researchers from Ukraine at universities in Switzerland through Scholars at Risk and supporting them with a series of additional measures.

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.

Changes in Postdoc regulations as of 04/13-21.

Extension of employment: in principle, postdocs are employed for 3 years and may be extended up to the maximum employment period of 6 years. The minimum term of employment is 1 year. Extensions of less than one year must be justified in advance.

Reduction BG to less than 80% due to childcare responsibilities: The university management has also decided on 13.04.2021 that the reduction of the degree of employment due to care duties to less than 80% must now only be justified at the beginning and in the case of an extension of the postdoc employment and no longer every year.

The fact sheet with information on the application of postdoc functions has been adapted accordingly. (follow link.)