Funding opportunities
SUSTAINIT provides seed funding for interdisciplinary research projects, mobility programs, innovative teaching initiatives, and partnerships with universities, organizations, and institutions globally, including in the Global South.
Information regarding upcoming funding opportunities will soon be announced.
Sustainability in Medical Education
Through the Centre of Excellence in Education, SHE, SUSTAINIT offers courses and modules on education for sustainable development, including a new Honours programme set to launch in 2023. This programme provides students with an understanding of the pedagogical principles and tools aimed at building capabilities needed to tackle the challenges to sustainable health and healthcare.
Interdisciplinary meeting places
SUSTAINIT will create various opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration and matchmaking among staff and students with interests in pandemics, global health, and sustainability in education.
Global networks
Through the Centre for Global Health, SUSTAINIT participates in and contributes to global partnerships and networks, including the Strategic Mobility and Academic Partnership Programme with Ethiopia, Women in Global Health, and the Norwegian Planetary Health Alliance.
Mobility programmes
SUSTAINIT offers mobility opportunities for students, including the upcoming SHE-WHO/PMNCH mobility scheme for MA and MD students. Through this programme, MA and MD students will have the chance to work on real-world projects in partnership with the WHO, gaining insight and familiarity with the WHO system.
Resources
SUSTAINIT provides a variety of resources for research and teaching, including the SHE Corpus, which is large database of health related texts and documents accompanied by an open access software interface and visualization tools to support conceptual analysis.
SHE-SUSTAINIT has also developed resource page on climate and sustainability in health education in collaboration with the University of Bergen, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, NTNU, and the University of Oslo.
Research and development
SUSTAINIT also runs several research and development projects on various topics related to health and sustainability, including Medicalisation of Democratic Rights in the Debate about Abortion (MEDRA), financed by UiO:Democracy 2023-2027, Digital Equity in AMR policy and practice (EquityAMR), financed by the Research Council of Norway (2021-2025), and DEBATING DEMOCRACY: Corpus-based Datathons to Support Collaborative, Student-driven Debates on the Key European Values of Sustainability and Democracy (2023-2026).
A complete list of R&D projects will be published soon.
Seminar programmes
SUSTAINIT organizes numerous seminars for researchers and wider audiences, including its series of accessible online lectures, known as SHE talks.
Read about upcoming events.