The document outlines the platform and priorities of Team Atakan, a candidate team running for leadership positions at the University of Bergen. Their priorities include continuing to emphasize research in marine sciences and global development while strengthening other areas like the humanities and law. They also want to focus on quality education, strengthen internationalization, pursue open access and digital transformation, and ensure an open and democratic university. The candidate team emphasizes values like independence, openness, collaboration, and developing society through knowledge and wisdom.

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TEAM ATAKAN

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Kuvvet Atakan
Candidate for Rector
Vice rector for education
Professor of seismology
Faculty of Mathematics and
Natural sciences
Vigdis Broch-Due
Candidate for Pro-Rector
Professor of Social Anthropology
Faculty of Social Sciences
Gottfried Greve
Candidate for Vice-Rector
for Education
Professor of Paediatrics
Klinisk institutt II
Faculty of Medicine and
Dentistry
Jill Walker Rettberg
Candidate for Vice-Rector
for International Relations
Head of the Alumni Board
Professor of Digital Culture
Faculty of Humanities
Leadership experience at all three levels, department, faculty and rectorate.
International backgrounds, research in all areas of the world.
Detailed knowledge of and experience throughout the university, in research, teaching and administration.

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• An independent university
• Breadth in research: diversity leads to innovation
• Quality in research and education
• An open and democratic university where students
and employees have real influence
• Equality in all dimensions, including gender
• Digital solutions in teaching, research and
administration
• A strongly international university
Vi står for:

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1. Research
•Continued emphasis on marine and
global/development research; strengthen humanities
and law
•Diversity, innovation and basic research, technology
transfer and innovation clusters
•Increased focus on research infrastructure and
research databases, digitisation of research data
•Prioritise continuous periods of time for research
•Strengthen young researchers’ career options, all
researchers at UiB should also teach
•Improve the gender balance among researchers and in
leadership positions.
Ethics and honesty

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2. Researcher training (PhDs)
•We see our PhD fellows primarily as researchers.
We do not want to reorganise our doctoral traning
to be administered by student affairs.
•PhD fellows are professional contributors to new
knowledge and are more than students.
•Group B should be better integrated into
university democracy.
•Teaching experience is imporant and four year
stipends allow this.
•Networks, researcher schools and a maximum of
six months from submitting to defending a
dissertation.

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3. Education
• Quality in all aspects
• Breadth and diversity
• Stronger links between learning goals, content, form
and assessment
• Stronger links between research and teaching;
student-active research
• Evaluations, rewarding good teaching.
• High quality teaching leadership and coordination,
valuing teaching.
• Dannelse – a broad, liberal arts approach
• Physical learning spaces, student organisations,
safety, more student housing
• Graduation ceremonies for BA and MA, not just PhD
• Life-long learning

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4. Outreach and communication
• UiB as a scholarly and cultural
powerhouse in Bergen
• Open access and open data as a
basic principle
• Strengthen alumni relations and
contact with business and cultural
sector
• MA theses and good BA theses
should be publically available, and
popularisation of research should be
part of courses including student-
active research
Bildet er av fadderne i 2009. UiB / Flickr

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5. Internationalisation
•Closer links between international research collaborations
and student exchange programs
• Reduced teaching for new international employees so they
have time to learn Norwegian
• Better information and support for students and employees
who are want to spend time abroad,
and for incoming guest researchers and students
•Global perspectives in curricula and learning goals

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6. Digitalisation
•Digitalisation is more than podcasting and digital
exams: active learning is key
• An overall digital strategy for education, research,
administration and communication.
•Kompetanseheving
• User-friendly systems for students, staff and the
public
• Emphasis on copyright and ethical perspectives´

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7. Leadership, administration and services
for employees and students
Openness
• A listening rectorate
• Open processes (budgets, decisions)
•Decentralised leadership philosophy
• Better administration at the department level
•Democratic processes
• Real participation from students and staff
• Elected rector and prorector
•Simplifying rules
•Equality in all dimensions, including gender
balance
•Safety for students and employees
•Green university
Våre ansatte
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Uavhengighet, Åpenhet, Samarbeid

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TEAM ATAKAN