For the first weeks of July, ten CHESS PhD students and three lecturers joined Statsraad Lehmkuhl and the One Ocean expedition for a sail around the Fiji islands. Besides learning the ropes to help sail the ship, the thirteen of…
In what has become tradition, the Bjerknes PhD forum gathered one last time before the summer holidays for a nice barbeque. With more than 25 fellow PhDs, we met in the GFI garden, recapped the last year, welcomed new students…
Postponed by the corona pandemic for 2 years, our in-person CHESS Annual Meeting from 9 – 13 May 2022 was successfully concluded on Hurtigruten! This annual meeting was the first physical CHESS conference after 2 years of hybrid meetings. It…
Congratulations to our members who will get funding from CHESS for their proposed activities! We received 8 proposals in the 1st “Call for CHESS Activities 2022” and 7 of them will get funding from CHESS. We are glad that among…
All CHESS PhDs, supervisors, and our international evaluation board members are warmly invited to our Annual Meeting, 9-13 May 2022, onboard of Hurtigruten from Tromsø to Bergen. Yep, finally! This planned meeting was twice postponed due to corona pandemic situations…
All PhD students and supervisors affiliated with CHESS are invited to submit proposals for courses, workshops, or summer/winter schools. Each successful proposal will get 50-150K NOK funding to carry out the activity. If you have an idea of an activity…
Our next CHESS Annual Meeting will be held from 9 – 13 May 2022, onboard of Hurtigruten! Yep, finally! This planned AM was twice postponed but now we are able to reserved some cabins onboard of MS Trollfjord. Registration will…
Congratulations to our members who will get funding from CHESS for their proposed activities! We received 12 proposals in total for this year’s “Call for CHESS Activities”. Among these 12 proposals, 10 were successful and will get funding from CHESS.…
Last week (4-5 November), the Bjerknes PhD Forum and CHESS organized together an event to talk about the struggles that we face as a PhD candidates and how to find solutions. The event that took place at the Panorama hotel…
On October 29, CHESS organized a regional meeting in Voksenåsen in Oslo. We started with an ice breaker before heading into the first talk of the day. It was given by Gaurav Madan, who spoke about the importance of storytelling…