Scholarship Details: The candidate will be admitted to the PhD programme at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo. The purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree. The proposed starting date for the fellowship is 1 July 2012 onwards. ARENA is a cross-disciplinary research centre [...]

Scholarship Details: The project focuses on studies of different redox-, radical- and metallo-proteins involved in oxygen activation and electron transport. This includes the proteins/protein systems of ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), nitric oxide synthase (NOS), catalase-peroxidase (KatG), cytochrome c and myoglobin. For these systems the combination of protein crystallography with different in-situ spectroscopic techniques as well as [...]

Scholarship Title: Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology Department of Civil and Transport Engineering PhD fellowships in Geotechnical Engineering Scholarship Details: The Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) invites applicants for three Ph.D. fellowships within geotechnical engineering applied to foundation of offshore wind turbines. The positions [...]

Scholarship Details: The Department of Financial Economics is currently inviting applications for new doctoral scholarships, with a startdate in August 2012. The PhD specialisation in Financial Economics focuses on developing the doctoral students’ theoretical knowledge and methodological skills required to become successful researchers in the area of finance. We encourage applications from students with solid [...]

Scholarship Details: A committee consisting of representatives from A. Wilhelmsen Foundation and BI Norwegian Business School will carry out the selection of scholarship recipients. The final decision can not be appealed against. A maximum of two students will receive this scholarship each year, and the size of the scholarship is NOK 75.000,- per semester per [...]

Scholarship Details: The BI Presidential Scholarships are for Norwegian and international top level candidates (ECTS grade A or equivalent). They cover the full tuition fees for two years. Additional living cost scholarships may be available for international students. The President of BI has established a Scholarship Fund for academically strong candidates, commencing in 2012. Students [...]

Scholarship Details: The successful candidate will work in a research team that analyzes the feedbacks between climatic, social and ecological forces with the aim to strengthen the adaptive capacity of institutions that govern marine ecosystems, focusing on the Barents Sea ecosystem. Typical issues to be studied are (i) how informal institutions, such as social norms [...]

Scholarship Details: In our research, the emphasis is on the design of chiral alpha-aminophosphonate derivatives to explore the scope of their catalytic reactivity in asymmetric chemical transformations, and subsequently their incorporation in more complex molecules. The establishment of this chemistry will allow generating phosphapeptides and phosphosphingosine analogues that possess interesting architectural features or useful biological [...]

Scholarship Details: The Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMMS) Research Group is aiming to improve future networks and middleware for advanced multimedia applications. Multimedia does not only mean audio and video, but also sensor data of any kind. We investigate context-aware and self-adapting solutions for transmission, distribution and management of (multimedia) data.

Scholarship Details: The position is available within the new EU FP-7 Collaborative Project DROUGHT-R&SPI (Drought Research and Policy interfacing). The objective of the project is to reduce Europe’s vulnerability and risk to drought by innovative in-depth studies that combine drought investigations at the pan-European scale with case study areas in water stressed regions (river basin [...]

Scholarship Details: The appointments are for a period of 3-4 years, depending on the teaching load. Fellows with 4-year appointments will have 75% of their working hours available for research training and 25% for performing mandatory work (mainly teaching) for the Department. 1-3 of the research fellowships are related to ESOP (Centre for the study [...]

Scholarship Details: A position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Higher Education Studies is available at the Department of Educational Research, Faculty of Education, at the University of Oslo (UiO). We are searching for highly motivated candidates with a strong interest in higher education governance and organisation. The fellowship is for a period of two years, [...]

Scholarship Details: The Geological Survey of Norway has a vacant position for a scientist in ore geology from 1st January 2012. The position is within the team for industrial minerals and metals which has a staff of 14 geoscientists and one senior engineer. NGU invites applications from candidates with a PhD or equivalent who have [...]

Scholarship Details: 1 – 3 positions as senior researcher (SKO 1109) and/or research professor (SKO 1183) are available at ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo (UiO), for 4 years with a possibility for extension.The centre and its research projects have received excellent evaluations. The working language at ARENA is English. Oral [...]

Scholarship Details: The positions belongs to the research project ”From local breakthroughs in knowledge to integration in medical practice” (KINT) within the Global Infrastructures (GI) research group at the Department of Informatics. KINT is a collaborative project also involving the Department of Innovation and Economic Organization at BI/Norwegian Business School and the Intervention Centre at [...]

Scholarship Details: The Department of Arctic Geology of the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) has a vacancy for a PhD position for three years within the bedrock group, closely linked to the Longyearbyen CO2 lab project. UNIS provides education and carries out scientific research based in Svalbard within the high Arctic, and benefits greatly from [...]

Scholarship Details: NGU seeks a candidate with Master’s or PhD degree or equivalent in geophysics, who has experience in data acquisition, processing and interpretation. The position is within the team “Bedrock excavations and applied geophysics” and the work will be data acquisition, processing and interpretation. Primary methods will be resistivity, ground penetrating radar and seismic [...]

Scholarship Details: The Quota Scheme currently provides funding for a total of 1,100 students, 800 of them from developing countries in the South and 300 from countries in the Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and in Central Asia.

Scholarship Details: Position as PhD Research fellow (Stipendiat SKO 1017) is available at Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway. The fellowship is for a period of 3 years. The geosciences are the studies of planet Earth – the atmosphere, the hydrosphere (including oceans, freshwater and glaciers), the earth’s surface and its interior. The span [...]

Scholarship Details: Nofima is a business oriented research group working in research and development for the aquaculture, fisheries and food industry in Norway. Nofima was established on 1 January 2008, and has about 470 employees. The group’s total turnover in 2008 was about NOK 470 million. The group’s main office is located in Tromsø in [...]

Scholarship Details: 4 PhD research fellowship positions and 1 post doc position are vacant within the research project “Intelligent drilling – automated underbalanced drilling operations”, funded by the Norwegian Research Council and Statoil ASA. The PhD scholars and Post Doc will work on challenging research problems in an active research team at the Department of [...]