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…
2nd Call for CHESS Activities is open now! All PhD students and supervisors affiliated with CHESS are invited to submit proposals for courses, workshops, or summer/winter schools. The budget of the call is 650 kNOK, resulting in 4-6 CHESS activities…
The CHESS Annual Meeting 2021 from 7-9 June was successfully concluded. This was the second time we had the meeting in hybrid format, combining remote access with regional hubs in Bergen, Oslo, and Tromsø for local participants to meet physically.…
Last Friday, nearly 30 Bjerknes-PhD students met in Nygårdsparken and scared away the rain. For more than two years now, Sonja, Elina, and Maaike have run the PhD Forum with great motivation and commitment – but time has come for…