Election platform for "Team Berg"

Our main goal is to engage and involve students and staff so that together we create a modern and dynamic faculty that has the will, capacity and competence to solve the societal missions and contribute to a sustainable future.

The faculty's education, research and innovation will be strengthened through initiatives such as interdisciplinary clinical academic groups/ communities of learning, through the establishment of UiO Campus Sør and a new master's degree in public health, by promoting global health, sustainability, research ethics and through new learning methods, exchange programs and mentoring schemes at all levels of the organization. The faculty will have a central role in the Life Science building, the new OUS and development plans for Ahus. We will create flexibility for dynamic changes via new mechanisms for input from students and staff, good leadership and active use of organizational  interfaces we have at the UiO, within the region and nationally, and internationally through university alliances such as Circle U and The Guild.

We must be an organization willing to learn. We will be trained in improving and supporting each other's development and career. Our management culture should support as well as challenge when needed. We will have a nurturing professional environment with close interaction between employees and students where expression of opinions and ideas should thrive. We must celebrate success, but also use our mistakes as an important source of learning.

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We build our priority working areas on the four strategic areas for UiO's strategy 2030.

• Promote independent, groundbreaking and long-term research
• Educate students with the knowledge, ability and willingness to create a better world
• Strengthen the dialogue with the outside world and work to ensure that knowledge is used
• Be an innovative organization and an attractive place to work and study

Promote independent, groundbreaking and long-term research

The faculty shall facilitate high-quality research that contributes to moving the boundaries of knowledge within disciplines and in interdisciplinary collaboration. We will work for calls to safeguard basic and long-term research, and we will help our research environments being successful in the national and international competition for research funds.

• We will initiate a good dialogue with our research environments:

  • establish clinical academic groups (CAGs) as thematic hubs for research and researcher education across institutes and departments to improve the interaction between basic and applied research and to strengthen the university's role in hospitals
  • collaborate with researchers and various types of funding sources on relevant calls for research funding in all disciplines
  • minimize bureaucratic barriers to grant applications and collaboration between units, and streamline project management and reporting mechanisms

  • update the rules and procedures for admission and completion of Ph.D.

  • exchange information and strengthen interaction with the regional health trusts and stakeholders in the primary health service

• We will offer effective mechanisms to strengthen interdisciplinary, national and international research collaboration:

  • create meeting places and promote mechanisms for digital collaboration and data exchange

  • modernize regulations for guest positions and honorary positions

  • use internal resources to strengthen strategic investments with international partners

• Through our leading role in life science research, we will facilitate the best possible collaboration between researchers within and outside the Life Sciences Building (LSB):

  • have clear guidelines for professional priorities in the LSB

  • contribute to optimal operation and organization of core facilities

  • establish guest researcher space for environments without own physical premises in the LSB

• We will contribute to outstanding research environments being visible and used actively as models to strengthen research at the faculty:

  • further develop the “Center” concept related to outstanding research, innovation and education

  • celebrate the successes and highlight how different groups of employees contribute to the success of projects

• We will strengthen and further develop the faculty's research education at Ph.D. and postdoctoral level so that candidates are offered tailored support for their research and career development:

  • develop and expand the subject portfolio in collaboration with the Circle U partners

  • offer thematic specializations within the faculty's postdoctoral program

  • strengthen competence in research ethics and relevant regulations

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Educate students with the knowledge, ability and willingness to create a better world

The faculty must renew its educational programs and be ready to increase its capacity so that our students are well equipped to work with the major societal challenges and in a changing healthcare system. We will do this in collaboration with students, teachers and partners within and outside UiO.

• We will have a culture of curiosity-driven learning:

  • promote learning with teaching that engages and stimulates students' creativity

  • strengthen teaching competence in the form of guidance and courses

  • give the syllabus committees and teaching leaders greater freedom to try out new teaching methods

• We will work actively to facilitate good student participation in the operation of the studies and in development projects:

  • continue the regular meetings between student union representatives and the dean of studies that were established during the pandemic

  • facilitate the development of tools and study measures that ensure students feedback on their academic development in the study

  • continue and contribute to the further development of training and competence in student representative’s work

• We will strengthen the implementation of sustainability in health education through the Center for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE):

  • develop an honors program on sustainability in health education

  • establish programs that give students better opportunities to study at educational institutions and health services in low-income countries in collaboration with SHE

  • develop pedagogical courses and learning materials that help teachers and students to implement sustainability as a natural and future-oriented part of the subjects in our health educations

• We will provide research-based teaching at a high international level

  • collaborate with the students on the renewal of the educations through regular dialogue meetings between the students and the faculty's management

  • increase the investment in the use and development of digital learning resources where, as a general rule, lectures are to be recorded

  • include knowledge of e-Health and computer-driven health research in the studies

  • use the national guidelines for health and social sciences (RETHOS) to renew and improve health education

  • further develop the Health Science Education Center (HUS) as a resource center for medical pedagogy, study quality work and e-learning

  • create routines that ensure clear feedback on the evaluation of the teaching and implemented measures

• We will renew the study of medicine and prepare it for increased admission of students:

  • pilot student-driven mentoring in all cohorts to strengthen learning, mastery and psychosocial learning environment

  • work to remove graded grades in the study of medicine

  • renew and develop the study plan to improve student-activating learning and practical studies

  • ensure good premises for learning in connection with new OUS and the development plan for AHUS

  • build up UiO Campus Sør together with Sørlandet Hospital HF and the Agder municipalities for an attractive study program that contributes to the development of the entire study program and as a model for further investments in decentralized education

  • ensure students’ good knowledge of the collaboration between the various levels in the health service through teaching and practice

  • offer courses that provide students early in their studies with qualifications for working in the health service

• We will continue to further develop the bachelor's and master's programs in line with society's needs and challenges to ensure that we remain a national leader in our programs:

  • involve students and staff in the Circle U alliance and develop mobility services for students and staff within the alliance

  • pilot career programs for master's and bachelor's students to improve job opportunities

  • increase the professional identity of master's students in clinical nutrition by investigating the possibility of developing a student clinic in clinical nutrition

• We will strenghthen our interprofessional collaborative education:

  • take a leading role in interprofessional collaborative learning at UiO based on the experiences from the pilot of “Sammen i praksis” (SamPraks)

  • develop collaboration with other health professional educations

  • increase collaboration with the Faculty of Dentistry within health pedagogy and e-learning for good utilization of common infrastructures

  • strengthen the collaboration between the study programs in the common part of medicine, clinical nutrition physiology and dentistry

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Strengthen the dialogue with the outside world and work to ensure that knowledge is used

The faculty will ensure that knowledge and ideas can be translated into new technologies and services where the Life Science Growth House will have a central role. Information about medicine and health is of great interest and dissemination must be characterized by openness and transparency.

• We will take a leading role in developing global health as a focus area in the University Alliance Circle U:

  • facilitate researcher-to-researcher collaboration with the partner institutions in the Circle U alliance

  • stimulate European collaborative projects that link research and education

  • work for the establishment of global health as a cross-cutting focus area at UiO

• We will establish meeting places where our researchers can present their research to the general public by providing employees with training in the use of social media and a wide range of other channels for research dissemination

• We will develop Norwegian professional language in line with society's needs:

  • stimulate dissemination on own websites (Medisinbloggen) and in other media

  • invite to regular dialogue with «Gruppe for norsk fagspråk»

• We will promote research that is useful to patients and society:

  • simplify collaboration across the faculty's departments in a way that strengthens the usefulness of the research, among other things through the establishment of Clinical Academic Groups (CAG)

  • collaborate with the health trusts on quality criteria for research that safeguards both excellence and utility value

  • strengthen the participation of patients and other stakeholders to discuss priority areas at the faculty

• We will simplify and strengthen early-stage innovation projects:

  • strengthen the innovation aspect for research at the faculty through standardized routines in the organization related to activities within the framework of the Life Science Growth House

  • create forums for dialogue with innovation-oriented researchers and projects to reduce barriers for innovation

  • support measures for increased student innovation

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Be an innovative organization and an attractive place to work and study

The faculty must have an excellent and safe learning environment and a culture that takes care of students and staff. We will be an inclusive and learning organization that facilitates participation and communication.

• We will preserve the best of what we learned during the pandemic:

  • optimize guidelines related to travel and remote working

  • help teachers adopt new digital learning-promoting methods for teaching

  • improve the infrastructure for digital and hybrid disputations and meetings

• We will ensure that there are good offers that take care of the students' mental health:

  • collaborate with students’ representatives to establish offers

  • establish meeting places in order to increase employees' insight into handling mental health challenges

• We will contribute to good career planning and reduce temporary work:

  • collaborate with the organizations for temporary employees and the research groups on measures

  • further develop career planning offers especially for PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows to ensure gender balance and diversity in future academic top positions

  • strengthen the possibility of thematic and methodological specialization in the postdoctoral program, among other things through clinical academic groups (CAG)

  • collaborate with UiO centrally on the development and introduction of the career evaluation matrix

  • be in dialogue with working life actors to keep the educations up to date and best adapted to the needs

  • offer mentoring schemes at Ph.D. and postdoctoral level where candidates and researchers are supervised by other young colleagues with more experience

• We will collaborate with the organizations for temporary employees to create onboarding and exit programs

• We will facilitate the professional development of technical and administrative staff by increasing the focus on career plans and career-building measures

• We will continue the department structure and preserve the division of labor between departments / NCMM and the faculty

• We will co-locate Helsam

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