Are you wondering where and when you can go on an exchange in your study programme? Or what you must consider before, during and after your stay abroad? Find everything you need to plan the journey of a lifetime!
The Faculty of Health Sciences educates competent healthcare professionals for health services in a state of constant transition. Our research covers subject areas related to health, medicine, ethics and welfare to ensure an interdisciplinary approach to health and healthcare services.
The UiS based research centre SHARE was established in 2017. Together with the national partner at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Gjøvik (NTNU Gjøvik), the centre constitutes Norway’s largest research group studying quality and safety in healthcare.
In the rapidly evolving and complex field of engineering, engineers face the challenge of understanding the AI landscape within engineering applications, navigating ethical considerations, scoping AI projects, and identifying AI use cases within engineering workflows. This fully online course will tackle this challenge by introducing a big picture map of the field and by providing an intuitive understanding of how AI works.
The course is intended for anyone who is interested in learning about artificial intelligence (AI) in an intuitive way. The course is flexible and fully digital with recorded lectures, structured in modules that can easily be adapted to fit your schedule.
The Master of Science in Business Administration at the UiS Business School presents a comprehensive and dynamic curriculum, blending theory with practical tools to prepare you for the contemporary job market. With strong ties to the industry, our business school ensures you stay connected to real-world business scenarios, offering an engaging and international learning environment.
Digital Society and Societal Transformations educates social scientists who understand how data and AI work, and how technology impacts democratic society. This programme will not teach you coding - it will give you the analytical and critical tools to live and work in the digital society, and better understand how technologies shape society.
EMMIR is the European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations. It is the first African-European-Asian Erasmus Mundus programme in migration studies. Our students experience a multidisciplinary education between our 9 partners in Germany, Norway, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Sudan, Uganda, South Africa, and India.
ConductIT is a study programme designed to offer flexible conducting training to music students, music educators and music professionals. The programme consists of a number of individual courses in conducting. Each course represents a profile or specialization within conducting; fundamentals of conducting, orchestral conducting, wind and brass band conducting or school band conducting.
Unlock your potential and make an impact on our planet! This master programme in Environmental Engineering, features a unique emphasis on water resource management.
The world needs engineers to develop smart and sustainable technologies for the marine and offshore industries. Would you like to contribute to the green transition and the future of the blue economy?
The Master of Science in Business Administration at the UiS School of Business and Law presents a comprehensive and dynamic curriculum, blending theory with practical tools to prepare you for the contemporary job market. With strong ties to the industry, our business school ensures you stay connected to real-world business scenarios, offering an engaging and international learning environment.
Do you have a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics? Then this is the master's degree for you! Mathematics and physics are the foundation for all technological development, and are used in economics, in social studies and in health.
The MSc programme in Biological Chemistry focuses on important areas of human, animal, and plant health, from the organismal to the molecular and cellular level.
Is the book an endangered species? Are text messages destroying the English language? What were medieval books like? How do children learn to read and write? Who was Shakespeare and does it matter? What does reading do to our minds?
The MFAMILY Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) programme enhances your knowledge and your skills needed for working internationally with interventions for vulnerable children and marginalized families.
This study programme provides an education in either mechanical or structural engineering, giving you the necessary engineering tools to turn challenges into opportunities.
An intensive 1-year course in Norwegian Language and Culture aims to give students the Norwegian language proficiency required to enter Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes taught in Norwegian at the University of Stavanger.
Study a two-year master's programme that provides specialization in conducting, classical music or jazz and improvisation at a high international level.
Study a three year master's prgramme that provides specialization in conducting, classical music og jazz and improvisation at a high international level.
Do you want to develop your instrumental skills and your artistic profile on your main instrument? Extension studies gives you the opportunity to add and specialize further from a completed bachelor's programme in music performance. You will learn more about artistic dissemination on a professional level.
Do you want a challenging and exciting dance education? Do you want to develop your artistic and technical expertise, and establish yourself as a performing dance artist? Bachelor in Dance gives you the opportunity!
The programme provides practical opportunities for advanced audio students to expand their experience and professional network. The programme emphasizes the recording of acoustic music with a focus on jazz and classical performance.
Industrial Asset Management brings a modern twist to engineering education. Through this Master's degree, you will acquire expertise in both technical engineering and management that is highly requested in various industrial sectors.
Are you interested in how cities can become more sustainable, efficient, safe and livable? This programme qualifies you to understand and shape the cities of the future.
Norway is recognised worldwide as a leader in the advances of offshore industry, and the University of Stavanger has close ties with the local and international industry.
Become a risk expert at a time when terrorism, pandemics, climate change and complex technological risks are some of the challenges facing society. With a master’s degree in Risk Analysis, you can analyse, assess, communicate, manage and govern all types of risk.
The demand for quality in prehospital services is increasing. At UiS, we offer an interdisciplinary master's programme for health care professionals in prehospital emergency care and medicine.
In this study programme, you will be learning about sustainability. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent two of the greatest challenges of our time. They involve political, economic, developmental, security, social and ethical challenges, especially for the most vulnerable societies.
Did you know that over 80 percent of all added value in companies and the public sector is related to service production and service? In other words, the society needs more leaders with expertise on developing and leading new service solutions.
The demand for quality in prehospital services is increasing. At UiS, we offer an interdisciplinary master's programme for health care professionals in prehospital emergency care and medicine.
A Centre for Innovation Research seminar: Environmental, economic and social sustainability - Perspectives from the Fishery and Aquaculture Performance Indicators.
UiS School of Business and Law, Elise Ottesen-Jensens hus
In this workshop, we reflect on what your examiners want to you demonstrate, discuss how to approach the writing process, and look at the elements of a good “kappe”.
Undertaking a PhD is both an exciting and challenging experience. This workshop draws on evidence-based strategies to help you stay well during your PhD.
In this workshop, you will be introduced to how to start planning for your career after completing your PhD/postdoc education. We will also look at interview techniques and feedbac
Welcome to the Norwegian psychometrics gathering! The gathering is a yearly workshop for methodological and applied researchers within the field of psychometrics.
PhD-candidate Xiangyu Quan at the UiS School of Business and Law will have her Public Defence for her dissertation «Sailing through Uncertainty: The role of inter-organizational collaboration in addressing complex problems» for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
On 7-9 August 2024, The Greenhouse is hosting an international conference on Storytelling for Environmental Futures, which brings together scholars from across the world to discuss how storytelling in the environmental arts and humanities can contribute to environmental futures.
We conceptualize advanced operational functions as well as explore optimization methods and physics-informed AI to address present and future operational hurdles, aiming for economic, resilient, and secure operations of electric power system.
The goal of the Sea Stories of Hope project is to shift the stories we tell about our oceans from ones of despair to ones of evidence-based hope, in order to foster greater environmental engagement. With funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers, this project aims to bring together the general public, teachers and students at all educational levels (from kindergarten to higher education), researchers, environmental experts, tourists, and commercial actors to create, collect, and tell different and more hopeful stories about the oceans.
The University in Stavanger offers 4 microcourses in Python programming. The courses are project based
with a combination of theoretical and practical approach.
Students with disabilities or special needs have the right to appropriate individual accommodations for educational institutions, teaching, learning materials, and exams to ensure equal educational opportunities. Accommodations can not compromise the academic requirements of each program.
Øyvind Time's master's thesis can help make everyday life easier for healthcare personnel who must learn how to take a fluid sample from the spinal cord or administer an epidural.
One of the world's foremost randomized controlled trial experts, Professor Eric Bettinger, will be back in Stavanger in the fall to teach a course on RCTs in the Social Sciences.
A new research project is going to look into whether Sámi students in Norwegian schools are more involved in online bullying than other students, as a result of their background. “There is hardly any research on Sámi schoolchildren and online bullying,” says Luisa Morello.
Tine Vigdel Bredal has investigated different methods for analyzing chalk at core level and right down to the smallest scale, the nano level. She defended her doctorate 5 June.
She is a radiologist at Stavanger University Hospital, he is a computer scientist. Now they have teamed up to develop a tool that can help doctors make better and faster decisions when a cerebral stroke is suspected.
A recent collaboration between Lyse and researchers at the UiS School of Business and Law has proven to be highly beneficial for both parties. While the researchers were able to test their hypotheses in a real-world setting, the energy and telecommunications company received valuable input from employees in a structured manner.
In the eHealth @ Hospital 2- Home study we have asked two different patient populations and two different clinical groups to help us in exploring how a remote patient monitoring intervention with additional nurse support might alter people’s self-care abilities after a hospitalisation.
Elaine Munthe has received the Ruth Wong Professorship for 2024 at the National Institute of Education and is attending The Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference.
When the world-renowned writer Kathy Lette traced her roots in the Australian TV program "Who Do You Think You Are?", she ended up in Stavanger and at UiS.
The eXploring Leadership (eXL) research group at the University of Stavanger is a forum that facilitates exciting diversity in leadership research and development. eXL is an inclusive meeting place where you can meet across academic environments and institutional boundaries.
Innovation is a core challenge for organizations in all phases of their lives. For established organisations, the challenge is to come up with innovation, to be able to create and deliver a steady stream of new products and services, and to improve internal processes to be able to do this. For start-ups, it presents itself as how they can manage the growth of a viable business through developing and refining solutions - and then scaling them. The importance of carrying out innovation in a manageable and structured way has recently been recognized by the upcoming ISO certification in innovation management. As in the case of ISO Quality Management and ISO Environmental Management, ISO 56001 will enable organizations to be certified if their innovation management system meets the standard's requirements.
The world's largest anti-bullying conference, the World Anti-Bullying Forum, will be held in Stavanger, Norway, in 2025. The world's foremost researchers, kindergarten teachers, schoolteachers, kindergarten and school leaders, politicians and organizations will gather to find out how we can better research and work against bullying.
In a remarkable demonstration of applied learning and industry collaboration, master's students from the UiS School of Business and Law recently presented their projects to a group of industry representatives as part of the collaboration with InGenious Program.
As part of the Pedagogy Unit (Uniped), the focus of this research group is to work with educators on the critical assessment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education to explore AI’s implications and identify appropriate applications.
UiS post-doctoral researcher Daniel Bowman writes about John Joseph Mathews’s 1934-novel Sundown, and the use of automobiles as signifiers of national identity.
SHARE - Centre for Resilience in Healthcare recently gathered researchers and health care professionals to an open seminar about the future of leadership in healthcare. The seminar concludes a full week of activities related to the Support4Resilience project.
Attending childcare for the first time can be extra challenging for shy children. To support shy children's well-being as best as possible, the staff needs to recognize children’s needs in different situations. A good collaboration between parents and childcare staff is extra important when there are shy children in the group.
Stavanger University Library will be a driving force for knowledge development, value creation and welfare at the university and the society around us.
Is it a group or a singular person who has made a special effort to make your everyday study life better? Then you should nominate them to The Education and Learning Environment Award 2024!
Professor Merja Stenroos has been awarded the most prestigious grant from the EU, the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant. It is the first time a UiS research project has been awarded a grant from the ERC.
What ethical challenges can arise when implementing technological solutions in healthcare services? The research group E-DigiCare aims to explore the ethical aspects and consequences of developing and implementing digital health and healthcare services.
Bridging between academia and industry, equipping students with knowledge and skills to make a meaningful impact in the transition towards a sustainable future.
The resource bank is for both students and professionals. Here you will find resources that child welfare and social work students as well as employees in the field can benefit from. The purpose is to collect resources so that they are easily accessible.
Activities within the research group EduWorkSoCo exhibit a thematic coherence centered around the following three perspectives: Graduate employment and entrepreneurship, international higher education and female researchers within the academic working environment.
Radel James Gacumo, on behalf of the Sensory Books project, participated in the Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) Conference in Malmö, Sweden, from March 6th to 8th, 2024.
Collecting and summarising earlier research within a specific clinical field is common and expected when developing new interventions. In the eHealth@Hospital-2-Home project, a literature review of patient experiences with eHealth interventions informed the research questions and shaped the design of the intervention.
The war in Gaza affects students and staff at the University of Stavanger and creates strong engagement. On this page, you will find information about how UiS is addressing the war.
The Responsible Tourism online seminar week (18th-22nd March 2024) organized in Nordic cooperation deals with current topics of responsible tourism, such as climate change and tourism, accessibility and ethics in tourism, concrete actions to promote responsibility and future of tourism.