BSRS mission:

Mission and Definition of the BSRS: Global Development Challenges

The Bergen Summer Research School is an initiative of the Bergen academic milieu’s commitment to produce and disseminate research-based education to address some key global challenges posed by an increasingly knowledge-based, complex, multicultural, religiously diverse, and unequal global society.
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Research-Based Education for Global Development Challenges:

One of the important challenges for universities and academic institutions today is their continuation as the backbone of society, providing the knowledge and educating young people for addressing complex global challenges. Global development challenges affect us all, rich as well as poorer countries. // Read more

2009 Theme: Global Environmental and Climate Change:

The second edition of the Bergen Summer Research School to be held during August 2009 will be dedicated to the theme of Global Environmental and Climate Change. // Read more



BSRS 4 Year Plan Themes:
Concept and Definition:

The first four editions of the Bergen Summer Research School will be dedicated to the following themes:

  • Global Poverty
  • Global Environmental and Climate Change
  • Global Health
  • Norms, Values, Language and Culture

We view these four key areas of research as intrinsically interrelated, but also requiring their clear identification as dominant themes for the yearly edition of the BSRS. As the portfolio of courses for 2008 clearly indicates, these themes will be recurrent in each yearly edition as well.