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The goal is to enhance the success rate of applications for major EU projects. Agder's new European office in Brussels is recruiting three employees.

The government has awarded NOK 5.1 million to UiA to establish a new continuing education course for engineers who want to train in offshore wind.

Statement from Rector Sunniva Whittaker on the situation in the Middle East.

Vikas Thakur embraces diversity and sustainability as the new dean of engineering and science at the University of Agder. Here are all the new faculty leaders at UiA.

On International Women's Day this year, UiA is launching an e-learning course on sexual harassment for use by the entire higher education sector.

Sparebanken Sør and UiA are collaborating to develop a more equitable and environmentally friendly alternative to the artificial intelligence technology used by major tech companies. Leading this initiative is Professor Ole-Christoffer Granmo from UiA, who was named the Norwegian AI researcher of the decade.

The failure rate in a history course has dropped from 27 to four percent. New teaching methods, including writing practice and more student active learning, are among the reasons for this improvement.

“We would like to involve as many colleagues from UiA as possible who are interested in these types of solutions,” the project managers say.

The dialogue model involves staff, parents and pupils in the work against bullying. “As far as I know, this has never been done before”, says project manager Ingrid Lund.

The University Board has decided that UiA will continue to elect rectors. What is new is that rector candidates must run as a team together with prorector candidates.

“I am happy to see that student life is back to normal”, said Jonas Gahr Støre when he visited Campus Kristiansand.

Out of respect for and support of the Ukrainian people, UiA has changed its colours to yellow and blue.

This spring, the University of Agder (UiA) went viral with the video ‘Sorry, not sorry’ - the response video to General Motor’s Super Bowl ad featuring Will Ferrell.

Research couple Hanne and Tor Stensola from Kristiansand return home to establish neuroscience as a new academic field at UiA. The initiative has received 26.5 MNOK in funding from regional partners and will strengthen UiA's expertise in psychology.

Rogaland, Agder and Telemark have seen surprisingly little migration over the last couple of hundred years, according to a new genetic study that is the first of its kind in Norway.