Norwegian Centres of Excellence (SFF)
UiB currently leads three Norwegian Centres of Excellence, promoting the highest standards of research quality in Norway.
Center for Digital Narrative
Centre for Digital Narrative – CDN (2023–2033) is the leading research centre for digital culture, working to advance our understanding of how digital narratives shape the way we see ourselves and the world around us.
Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting
Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting – BCEPS (2023–2033) will become a world-leading research centre developing new methods and ethical frameworks to help decision-makers allocate health services more fairly and efficiently.
Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour
Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour – SapienCE (2017–2027) aims to provide groundbreaking insight into what it means to be human. The centre has exclusive access to Blombos Cave, the Klasies River main site and the Klipdrift complex — key locations for unlocking our earliest history.
Centres that have recently ended their activities
Birkeland Center for Space Science – BCSS (2013–2023)
Birkeland Center for Space Science tries to understand the Earth’s relationship to space. They are looking to answer the three questions: When and why are the auroras in the two hemispheres asymmetric? What are the effects of particle precipitation on the atmospheric system? What is the role of energetic particles from thunderstorms on geospace?
Read more about the Birkeland Centre for Space Science (BCSS)
Center for Cancer Biomarkers – CCBIO (2013–2023)
Center for Cancer Biomarkers aims to discover, validate and translate functional cancer biomarkers to improve our understanding of tumour mechanisms, advance early diagnosis of aggressive tumour phenotypes and support cost-effective and responsible treatment of cancer.'
NORMENT (2013–2023)
UiB is also partner in a CoE coordinated by UiO, The Norwegian Centre for research on mental illnesses – NORMENT, that aimed to find answers to why some people develop serious mental illnesses.
Center for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health – CISMAC (2013–2024)
Center for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health – CISMAC (2013–2024) aims to improve the health and survival of mothers and children as well as child development through intervention studies among low-income populations in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Read more about the Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health
Centres that have ended their activities
Centre for Geobiology (2007–2017)
The centre was succeeded by the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research (2017–2021) and the Center for Deep Sea Research (2021–2026).
Bjerknes Center for Climate Research – BCCR (2003–2012)
The centre has become one of the most important climate research centres globally.
Center for Medieval Studies – CMS (2003–2012)
Medieval research is still a focus area at UiB. At the Faculty of Humanities, the research was continued in various research groups at the Medieval Research Cluster.