Centres of Excellence (CoE)
UiB is currently home to four National Centres of Excellence. The CoE status is a seal of quality in academic research.
Center for Digital Narrative
Center for Digital Narrative – CDN (2023–2033) is the power center for research on digital culture will work to promote the understanding of how digital narratives shape the understanding of ourselves and the society in which we live.
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Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting
Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting – BCEPS (2023–2033 will become a world-leading research center that will develop new methods and a new ethical framework that help decision-makers to distribute health services in a fairer and more efficient way.
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Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour
Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour – SAPIENCE (2017–2027) aims to increase our understanding of how and when Homo sapiens evolved into who we are today. South Africa is one of the locations for this centre.
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Center for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health
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.
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Recently finished CoEs or centres in their exit phase
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?
Center for Cancer Biomarkers – CCBIO (2013–2023)
Center for Cancer Biomarkers identifies new cancer biomarkers and targeted therapy, and has particular focus on mechanisms that show how cancer cells are affected by the microenvironment in the tumors, and what significance this has for cancer proliferation and poor prognosis.
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.
Finished Centres of Excellence
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)
Middle age research is still a focus area at UiB. At the Faculty of Humanities, the research was continued in various research groups at the Medieval Reseach Cluster.