Centres of Excellence

In sharp competition with other Norwegian research groups for the status of Norwegian Centre of Excellence, the University of Bergen was awarded three of these 13 national centres in 2002. The Norwegian Centre of Excellence (CoE) scheme is designed to promote high-quality Norwegian research, and involves gathering first-class groups of researchers under a single leadership with a common set of research goals, with the aim of enabling them to perform leading-edge research at international level. The National Fund for Research and Innovation has made this effort possible, while the host institutions also commit themselves to share the costs out of their own funds. Besides academic quality, the selection process also took into account the social and commercial benefits of the individual proposals for centres. At the University of Bergen , the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, the Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research and the Centre for Medieval Studies have been awarded CoE status.

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