The following priority areas will help achieve this objective:

• Ensuring good-quality recruitment, continuity and systematic development of skills.
• Facilitating good career opportunities, with an emphasis on language teaching, career plans and improving skills.
• Continuing to develop academic leadership and administrative management areas, while ensuring that all people in leadership positions understand the university's key values and central goals, plans and strategies.

It is the responsibility of people in leadership positions to facilitate professional development for staff, and each individual employee is responsible for maintaining and developing their own skills and expertise.

In addition to the internal courses and seminars at the university, there are all kinds of opportunities in continuing and further education at the university. Members of staff and people in leadership positions can also take individual external courses and programmes, adapted to the wishes and needs of the individual and the university.

• Internal courses
• Continuing and further education

Financial support for competence development

Technical and administrative employees
Technical and administrative staff at the university can apply for financial support for training initiatives outside the university. Applications are submitted to your immediate supervisor. Funds for training are allocated by the faculties and the central administration, and it is a condition for support that the individual unit also provides an equivalent amount of funding. 

• Application for funding for training (NO)

Employees in units that are organised under a faculty, should submit their application to the faculty. There is a similar scheme for the University of Bergen Library and the University Museum of Bergen.

Employees in the administrative divisions should submit their application directly to the Division of Human Resources.

Academic employees
Each faculty organises financial support for academic staff differently. Contact your department's administration for more detailed information about financial support.