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. // Read more

Application forms for BSRS 2010 are now open

The online applications for BSRS2010 are now available at http://bsrs.no/application-form/ . Notice: ONLY online applications are accepted. Deadline 1st March 2010.

2010 Theme: Global Health in Bio-Medical, Social and Cultural Perspectives

The third edition of the Bergen Summer Research School is dedicated to the theme of Global Health and will be held 21 June – 2 July 2010. The 2010 theme will intersect with the other key topics of the Bergen Summer Research School (poverty, climate, environment, energy, norms, values, language and culture) and aims to promote collaboration, interaction and joint learning across disciplines on research topics and challenges related to global health and development. These challenges affect all countries in all income categories. The concept of Global Health is defined as “an area for study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide. Global health emphasises transnational health issues, determinants, and solutions, involves many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences and // 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
Climate, Environment and Energy
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.

BSRS mission:

Research-Based Education for Global Development Challenges:

Application forms for BSRS 2010 are now open

2010 Theme: Global Health in Bio-Medical, Social and Cultural Perspectives

BSRS 4 Year Plan Themes: Concept and Definition:

BSRS 4 Year Plan Themes:
Concept and Definition: