Upcoming events for international staff
The University of Oslo takes pleasure in inviting all international employees, researchers and Ph.D. candidates who have joined our institution recently to an orientation meeting and common breakfast.
At the end of the event, guests may take part in a guided tour of the University Library.
Bring a dish or snack from your home country to share, and get a taste of different cuisines from around the world!
Do you want to learn and practice languages while getting to know people from around the world? Come to the language café then!
Join us for a guided tour of the Norwegian Parliament!
In this half-day course in research data management module 1, participants will gain insight into planning for data storage, organization and documentation and working with Data Management Plans.
Do you want, or need, to learn Conda and Docker for your research, but have no, or little, previous knowledge? Or, do you want your team members to learn Conda and/or Docker? If yes, then this workshop is for you and/or your team!
This course gives an introduction to the reference management software Zotero. The course is held in Zoom.
Want to learn Python for your research but have little or no experience? Or do you need to refresh your basic Python skills? This workshop is for you! Please follow the preparation instructions below.
Join a guided tour of the Historical Museum's Viking exhibition and become acquainted with Viking war culture, their journeys, and how society changed during the Viking era.
NVivo is a powerful tool for organizing and structuring your material for qualitative and mixed methods analysis. Learn how to code and retrieve in NVivo and get an introduction to useful NVivo functionalities.
Data Carpentry offers workshops on essential data skills for researchers with minimal computational experience. These domain-specific lessons build on participants' existing knowledge, allowing them to quickly apply new skills to their research.
This course gives an introduction to the reference management software Zotero. The course is held in Zoom.
This course is designed for PhD Candidates and others who need a deeper knowledge, and advanced skills in literature searching within medicine and natural sciences. It focuses on useful tools for building search strategies and advanced search techniques. Several relevant databases are highlighted.
The University of Oslo takes pleasure in inviting all international employees, researchers and Ph.D. candidates who have joined our institution recently to an orientation meeting and common breakfast.
At the end of the event, guests may take part in a guided tour of the University Library.
The course continues where basic level 1 left off, taking you several steps further in coping with everyday life in Norwegian.
The course provides a "Norwegian survival kit" for newcomers.
The course continues where basic level 2 left off, taking you several steps further into the language used in everyday life in Norway.
When writing an academic text it is important that you know how to cite your sources. This course teaches basic referencing techniques such as quoting a text, writing citations and reference lists, and using images.
Get a fundamental understanding of how to use Python programming and an introduction to simpler tools such as Voyant and DH-Lab apps to text mine corpora.
The high yearly production of scientific literature results in difficult decision: which of the many studies should we trust? The aim of the course is to equip you with knowledge and skills to critically appraise methodological quality of an article.