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Lecture series: Shocks and shattering

ENLIGHT Matchmaking Event and Leadership Training for Early Career Researchers

The event will take place online (29.04-30.04.2024) and offers researchers from the University of Bern the opportunity to establish (research) collaborations within the ENLIGHT network (also with regard to the ENLIGHT Thematic Network Calls) and to get to know the tools available for this purpose.

Welcome to the swiss social security system – Online event of the Bernese Pension Fund (BPK)

The BPK will introduce itself at the University of Bern and present the basics and services of the occupational pension plan. The event is primarily aimed at foreign employees of the University of Bern who are insured with the Bernese Pension Fund. The online event will be held in English. Further information and registration via ILIAS. Please register until may 1st 2024.

COMET Coaching, Mentoring, Training for female postdoctoral researchers of all faculties

Duration of programme: June 2024 - February 2025
Deadline for applications: 24 March 2024
Kick-off event: 12 June 2024
Career retreat: 4.-6. September 2024

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.

Swiss researchers temporarily admitted to "Horizon Europe"

Call for ERC Advanced Grants 2024 open to Swiss researchers

120%-Care-Grant

Support for early career researchers with caring responsibilities to reduce their employment level.
Application deadlines: 3 June / 2 September / 2 December 2024

Healthy UniBe

With the new "Healthy UniBE" platform, the University of Bern aims to promote the health and well-being of its employees. Discover the wide range of offers for a healthier working day and a better quality of life. The project is part of the Fit for Future programme.

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

No agreement has yet been reached between the negotiating delegation and Elsevier for a read-and-publish agreement from 1.1.2024. Access to the published section is currently still available. In the event that they are discontinued, further information will be provided on alternatives for full-text access for members of UniBE, PHBern and Inselspital (UPD with Uni Account). Negotiations are ongoing. As soon as an agreement has been reached, information will also be provided on the conditions for free publishing in Open Access.

New read-and-publish agreements with Taylor & Francis

The University of Bern's existing read-and-publish portfolio has been expanded to include the agreement with the publisher Taylor & Francis.

Transferable Skills: Key Skills for your Career

Would you like to foster your employability and effectiveness of your research?
The Vice-Rectorate Development offers the program Transferable Skills free of charge for PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows.

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.

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.

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!

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.