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. Global Development challenges cannot be met without being prepared for the increasingly knowledge-based organization of social life; dependent on global shocks and forces as much as on national and local factors.

However, as inequalities continue to grow at an increasing pace, including inequalities in knowledge capacity and training, it is a responsibility for advanced economies and their academic institutions to take leadership, and to invest and share their resources and research results for the benefit of all. Norway is a committed donor country and a wealthy economy endowed with important natural resources. The Bergen academic milieu has committed to the rethinking of the implications of Norway’s position in the world today, emphasizing key themes and research that our institutions are already hosting.