Bergen Summer Research School

20/01/2026

🧮 PhD Course: Accounting for Sustainability – Water & Climate 🌿🌍 This interdisciplinary PhD course brings together international researchers, experienced accounting scholars, and industry practitioners to explore how organisations respond to escalating water and climate challenges through sustainability reporting.

📅 1–11 June 2026
📍 Universitetet i Bergen (UiB), Norway 🇳🇴
🎓 Course leader: Carmen Olsen (Høgskulen på Vestlandet HVL)

The course features interactive workshops with scholars from Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and insights from Equinor on their sustainability reporting journey.

We will explore:
🌿 How sustainability and ESG frameworks shape corporate accountability
💧 How organisations integrate water and climate considerations into their reporting
🇪🇺 European developments, such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)

📚 Open for PhD students from all disciplines
📅 Apply by: 1 February 2026
🔗 Learn more & apply 👇

20/01/2026

🌊 PhD Course: Ocean Desires, Ocean Diversities 🌍 This interdisciplinary course explores the ocean as an object of desire—drawing on ethnographic case studies and cutting-edge research from biology, oceanography, law, and the humanities.

📅 1–11 June 2026
📍 Universitetet i Bergen (UiB), Norway 🇳🇴
🎓 Course leaders: Edvard Hviding, Marta Gentilucci and Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme

In an era of global precarity, the ocean has become a space of both problems and solutions: sea-level rise, global warming, acidification, and resource depletion challenge traditional ways of living with and off the ocean, while offshore wind and deep-sea mining open new frontiers.

The course brings together advanced research from biology, oceanography, law, and the humanities., with lectures by Lise Øvreås, Peter Haugan, Ernst Nordtveit, Marianna Betti (PhD) and Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard.

Through case studies from the Arctic to the Global South, participants will examine how diverse ocean expectations collide locally and globally—from coastal communities to multilateral arenas like the United Nations and the International Seabed Authority.

📚 Open for PhD students from all disciplines
📅 Apply by: 1 February 2026
🔗 Learn more & apply 👇

20/01/2026

🐟 PhD Course: Ocean Productivity and Seafood in a Changing Climate 🌍🌊 As climate change reshapes marine ecosystems, understanding the limits and possibilities for sustainable seafood production has never been more critical.

This interdisciplinary PhD course will explore how climate change affects the sustainability and future availability of seafood for a world that relies on the ocean for food.

📅 1–11 June 2026
📍 Universitetet i Bergen (UiB), Norway 🇳🇴
👥 Course leader: Øyvind Fiksen

We bring together leading international experts in biological oceanography, biotechnology, and marine food systems — including Anya Waite ( Frontier Institute, Dalhousie University), Eva Holmquist Falch, Ida-Johanne Jensen (NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU)) and researchers from the marine powerhouse of Bergen - both in seafood 🦐 and oceanography 🌊

🔬 If your PhD research touches oceans, food systems, climate, or sustainability, then join us in Bergen this summer to build your global research network with peers and experts across disciplines.

📚 Open for PhD students from all disciplines
📅 Apply by: 1 February 2026
🔗 Learn more & apply 👇

20/01/2026

🌊🎣 PhD Course: Diverse Ways of Sensing, Knowing, and Valuing the Ocean 🤿🪸⛵ This interdisciplinary PhD course explores the marine science–society–policy nexus. How do different cultures, knowledge systems, and ways of sensing and valuing the ocean shape human–ocean relationships and influence decision-making and governance?

📅 1–11 June 2026
📍 Universitetet i Bergen (UiB), Norway 🇳🇴
👥 Course leader: Mimi Lam

Inspired by the integrative approach promoted by IPBES, the course embraces pluralistic perspectives to help future ocean leaders navigate complexity with sensitivity and insight. We seek to:

🐋 Explore cultural, epistemological, and experiential diversity in ocean knowledge
🦐 Reflect on how this diversity can strengthen innovation and resilience
🪼 Understand how misunderstandings can arise—and how they can be reconciled
🐟 Engage with ethical, deliberative, and decision-support tools designed to bridge differences

📅 Apply by 1 February—spots are limited!
🌍 Open to PhD candidates and academic researchers worldwide.
🔗 See link below to learn about the course and to apply 👇

18/12/2025

PhD Course: Accounting for Sustainability – Water & Climate
📅 1–11 June 2026 | Bergen, Norway 🇳🇴

Carmen Olsen (Høgskulen på Vestlandet HVL) will lead a PhD course on Accounting for Sustainability, with a special focus on water and climate as part of the Bergen Summer Research School..

Expect:
✅ Interactive workshops with leading accounting scholars
✅ Dedicated sessions to help you develop your PhD research toward impactful publications
✅ A vibrant, interdisciplinary environment – open to PhD students from all disciplines

📌 Application deadline: 1 February 2026
👉 Learn more & apply: https://lnkd.in/e3sxx5kk

09/12/2025

🌊 How do we, as humans, live with the ocean? Are we asking too much — or perhaps too little — of it?

Applications are now open for the Bergen Summer Research School (1–11 June 2026) 🇳🇴. We will bring together up to 100 PhD students from any discipline and around the world to explore how humanity interacts with the ocean and to tackle its greatest challenges.

Participants will:
🌐 Collaborate with leading international experts
🤝 Build strong interdisciplinary networks
💡 Explore real-world solutions for a sustainable ocean future
🌲 Experience Bergen’s nature and vibrant culture

📅 Application deadline: 1 February 2026
🔗 https://lnkd.in/duTdJBwV

09/12/2025

🌊 How do we, as humans, live with the ocean? Are we asking too much — or perhaps too little — of it?

Applications are now open for the Bergen Summer Research School (1–11 June 2026)🇳🇴

We will bring together up to 100 PhD students from any discipline and around the world to explore how humanity interacts with the ocean and to tackle its greatest challenges.

Participants will:
🌐 Collaborate with leading international experts
🤝 Build strong interdisciplinary networks
💡 Explore real-world solutions for a sustainable ocean future
🌲 Experience Bergen’s nature and vibrant culture

📅 Application deadline: 1 February 2026
🔗 https://lnkd.in/duTdJBwV

02/12/2025

Join us in Bergen 🇳🇴 next summer for ten exciting days with fantastic experts and fellow PhD students from around the 🌍 world! We now welcome applications.

Check out the five parallel courses diving into society’s expectations of the ocean 🌊:

✅ Accounting for sustainability: water and climate
✅ Ocean productivity and seafood in a changing climate
✅ The ocean and planetary health justice
✅ Ocean desires, ocean diversities
✅ Diverse ways of sensing, knowing, and valuing the ocean

In addition, several keynotes and two joint workshops will help you strengthen your research impact.

📅 Application deadline: 1 February 2026

Universitetet i Bergen | Høgskulen på Vestlandet HVL | NHH Norwegian School of Economics | Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) | NORCE

Interdisciplinary PhD school on global challenges such as climate, health, inequality, and governance for 100 PhD students and researchers from around the world

10/06/2025

And we're off with BSRS 2025. So much information and so many happy faces! It feels good to be under way!

Find us on LinkedIn!

📸: Thor Brødreskift

21/01/2025

The young face controversial issues and disinformation on many platforms. How can citizenship of the young be understood? What can lived democracy in childhood and education be?

In their PhD course this June, Kjellrun Hiis Hauge (Høgskulen på Vestlandet HVL), Thea Gregersen (NORCE)and Kjersti Fløttum (Universitetet i Bergen) will explore attitudes to sustainability, climate change and democratic engagement across the world.

Bergen Summer Research School takes place 10-20 June 2025, in Bergen 🇳🇴

Apply by 1 February 2025!

The course explores childhood citizenship and the young's attitude to sustainability issues. The focus is on experiences from the situation in Norway, but includes also global perspectives.

03/12/2024

With just five years remaining to achieve the , Birgit Kopainsky, the scientific director of the 2025 Bergen Summer Research School, urges us to reflect on whether we can do better.

She has brought together five top researchers to create courses next summer. Explore these courses and apply today to join us in Bergen, Norway!

Parallel courses:
💡 Health Financing
💡 Accounting for Sustainability
💡 Democratic Practices
💡 Innovations in Higher Education
💡 Climate Change and Health

Joint workshop:
💡 Systems Thinking and Creative Problem-Solving

Apply by 1 February 2025.

Universitetet i Bergen Høgskulen på Vestlandet HVL NHH Norwegian School of Economics Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) NORCE