BSRS mission:

Mission and Definition of the BSRS: Global Development Challenges

The Bergen Summer Research School is an initiative of the Bergen academic milieu’s commitment to produce and disseminate research-based education to address some key global challenges posed by an increasingly knowledge-based, complex, multicultural, religiously diverse, and unequal global society.
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Research-Based Education for Global Development Challenges:

One of the important challenges for universities and academic institutions today is their continuation as the backbone of society, providing the knowledge and educating young people for addressing complex global challenges. Read more.

Important Message

The Bergen Summer Research School on Global Development Challenges (BSRS)

BSRS has completed its first four-year project, 2008-2011.We want to thank all the participants, both students and teachers, for their important contributions, making the BSRS a great success.
We will not offer an ordinary BSRS in 2012, but arrange a PhD conference on Global Development Challenges. The BSRS organisers will during the coming months plan for the BSRS 2013-2016. We expect to be able to inform you about the decision in April 2012, so please follow our web site to keep informed.

Application form...

Application form is now ready online. Deadline for applications is 15^th February 2012.

Printable version of the flyer (pdf file)

University of Bergen - PhD Conference 2012 on Transnational Migration and Global Development

Bergen, 20- 22 June 2012

In 20-22 June 2012 the University of Bergen will organise a PhD conference on BSRS-related themes. The title of the conference is Transnational migration and global development. Motivations for, and modes of migration are diverse and often overlapping: from voluntary labor migration to family migration to forced migration due to climate change, lack of food security, war, or ethnic and religious conflict. Common to all forms of migration, though, is that the economic, social and cultural relations in both sending and destination countries are altered as a result. How does this happen, and what is the impact for both the individuals involved and society at large? We believe that a transnational lens on these questions will help us better understand their dynamics and effects. This means, concretely, that we aim to transcend typical divides between development researchers specializing on countries in the South and migration researchers specializing on countries in the North. A transnational lens on migration means that we (in studies of migrants and/or the effects of immigration and emigration in specific localities, regions or countries) are sensitive to how transnational flows of money, culture and social relations influence migrants' adaptation and imagination as well as states' and regions' political regulation of migration across the South - North divide. Transnational networks span countries of settlement and emigration, Diasporas, civil society organizations, social movements and NGOs working with migrants and refugees' rights, and not least communities of belonging defined by religion, gender, ethnicity, nationality and race. This conference focuses ..... please read more

BSRS 2008-2011 Themes:
Concept and Definition:

The first four editions of the Bergen Summer Research School have been dedicated to the following themes:

We view these four key areas of research as intrinsically interrelated, but also requiring their clear identification as dominant themes for the yearly editions of the BSRS.

Global Health

Global Participants 2008

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Related Conference in Bergen in August - September 2012

https://www.uib.no/rg/nnlts/projects/third-network-conference-bergen-2012