BERGEN SUMMER RESEARCH SCHOOL,
JUNE 15–27, 2015
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
GOALS TO MEET GLOBAL
DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES
The Bergen Summer Research School started in 2008 as a call for
interdisciplinary spaces for debate, dialogue and joint learning.
Climate and environmental changes, health challenges, new diseases,
pervasive poverty, and governance of common goods affect us all.
Every summer, seventy PhD students and junior scholars meet up
with leading researchers and practitioners in Bergen to take an
interdisciplinary approach to our global development challenges.
BSRS 2015: SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDG)
In 2000, world leaders committed to eight
Millennium Development Goals (MDG)
to be achieved by 2015. Among their
milestones were halving extreme poverty,
reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS, and making access to primary education universal.
The MDG initiated much research and
debate, both about their profile but also
about the impact they have on development in countries around the world. They
drew attention to important and neglected
social issues, but have they been helpful in
creating good strategies for sustainable
development?
The UN stresses the importance of research
and higher education institutions for a
post-2015 agenda. New knowledge, critical
assessments, and scientific methods must
inform discussions on what should follow
the MDG. These new “Sustainable Development Goals” provide the framework for
the scientific courses and discussions at
the Bergen Summer Research School in
June 2015.
PhD COURSES
The BSRS 2015 will be organised in five
­parallel courses, bound together by joint
lectures given by high-profile keynote
speakers. In addition to the doctoral courses,
a set of plenary sessions and public meetings will reach out to the wider community.
• Inequality and governance: challenges
for inclusive sustainable development.
Course leader: Professor Lise Rakner.
• The unfinished agenda of maternal and
child health: research to accelerate progress.
Course leader: Professor Thorkild Tylleskär.
• Future energy landscapes. Course leader:
Associate Professor Inga Berre.
• SDG and cultural transformation. Course
leader: Associate Professor Anne Bang.
• Sustainable development targets for health:
normative foundations, measurement
and country challenges. Course leader:
Professor Ole Frithjof Norheim.
The courses are aimed at PhD students and
junior scholars, and are taught in English.
Paper presentations at BSRS will be ECTS
credited. See our website for more information.
OUR MISSION
REGISTRATION FEE
• to offer high quality disciplinary, inter­
disciplinary and problem-oriented researchbased education to a broad audience of
doctoral students and junior researchers
from all areas of the world.
• to form an international platform for
discussion and dissemination of new
perspectives on key global challenges:
Global Poverty / Global Environmental and
Climate Change / Global Health / Norms,
Values, Language and Culture.
NOK 4000.
A limited number of full and partial scholarships are available to qualified students.
APPLICATION
At BSRS website: uib.no/rs/bsrs
Application deadline: February 15, 2015
Graphic design: Division of Communication, UiB / © Photos: Annette Holmberg, Colourbox, Silje Katrine Robinson
The Bergen Summer Research School is a joint venture under the leadership of the University of Bergen with the Norwegian
School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen University College, Chr. Michelsen Institute and Uni Research.
Email: [email protected] / Web: uib.no/rs/bsrs / Facebook: BergenSummerResearchSchool