On September 28-29, the company Mobil cykelteknik will come to Medcinareberget and offer bike fixes for employees and students. Students get the bike fix for free, and for employees it costs SEK 750.
The bicycle repair takes place in the courtyard outside the Academicum, Medicinaregatan 3. Leave the bicycle in the courtyard in the morning, from 08:00 a.m. and pick it up in the afternoon, no later than 4:00 p.m.
Limited number of places – book your place by emailing info@mobilcykel.se.

Click here to view a PDF (in Swedish) with more information (note prize information on the flyer is incorrect – the correct prize is SEK 750).

When you hand in your bike, it is good if you have already put a note on your bike with your name and mobile number – it makes the handing in easier.

Employees at the University of Gothenburg are entitled to compensation for wellness activities of a maximum of SEK 2,000 per calendar year. As of January 1, 2022, the university is changing its handling due to adaptation to the Swedish Tax Agency’s legal guidance on compensation for health care. The change means that reimbursement for keep-fit-activities is approved according to the main rule only for the calendar year in which the cost is paid. Employees therefore need to report the request for compensation as soon as possible after they have incurred the cost, but no later than the December pay run in the current year.

There is an exception to the main rule. If the employee has already been granted the maximum amount for health care compensation in the current year, it is possible to use the next year’s compensation if there is a receipt for November or December. However, it must be reported for payment and charged to the health care balance for the coming year. This means that such a case can be approved for payment at the earliest in January, the year after the cost has been incurred. The exception makes it possible to continue to take advantage of the usual offers at the end of the year to buy annual passes to, for example, gyms for the coming year.

All in all, the new handling means that from the turn of the year onwards, the university will not replace receipts older than 1 November of the previous year, then charge the next year.

 

Sahlgrenska Academy Science Seminars are based on the commitment of the entire faculty. You can register yourself as a host for a speaker, or register an interest. It could be yourself, a colleague at the university or other higher education institution, or a person from an external organization speaking.

Send your expression of interest to the Department for Research Support

Here you can see which gaps are in the schedule this autumn.

University of Gothenburg is recruiting a new Vice-Chancellor. Until September 23rd, it is possible to nominate candidates through a phone call or an email (recruitment consultant Ewa Olszewski, phone +46 (0)73 368 8477 or email ewa.olszewski@michaelberglund.se). According to the University Board list of requirements, the candidate should be an internationally recognized professor, an experienced manager and someone committed to the University’s role in society. The University is working with the recruitment agency Michaël Berglund AB and the company’s consultants are also actively searching for suitable candidates. Current Vice-Chancellor Eva Wiberg has previously via her blog announced that she will not be running for another term.

• Staff Portal: Recruitment of Vice-Chancellor
• Vice-Chancellor job announcement [in Swedish]

The Swedish Research Council’s Scientific Council for Medicine and Health is now welcoming proposals for members of the review panels for 2023. The persons nominated must be established researchers within their scientific field – professors or docents – preferably with previous experience of review work. You can nominate researchers from both within and outside Sweden. You can also nominate yourself. Submit your proposal no later than 30 November 2022.

Instructions are available here.

Katarina Bjelke has a postgraduate degree in medicine and extensive experience in the sector, but has had an administrative career – including as university director at KI and as ministerial councilor at the Ministry of Education. She is a trained dentist and received her doctorate in neuroanatomy at KI in 1997. For a couple of years after her doctorate, she worked on the same type of research as a postdoctoral fellow at the MRI center at Karolinska University Hospital. She abandoned her research career when she had the opportunity to be part of building up KI’s Grants Office.
Read a longer interview with Katarina Bjelke in Curie (in Swedish).

You are welcome to register for a training session (held in Swedish) on ethics review and personal data processing in research. Administrative lawyers Erica Schweder and Oscar Larsson at the section for administrative law will review the regulations. You also get practical guidance and a description of the various steps, as well as measures of what needs to be done before a new research project begins. Checklist is promised.

• The training is given on Wednesday 16 November, 09:30-12:00 in Torgny Segerstedtsalen, Vasaplatsen 1. (University building)
• Limited antyal seats. Register here: https://kompetensutveckling.gu.se/seminar/detail/4604

 

In the Staff Portal you can order a variety of profile goods that are specially designed to suit our partners and our guests. You order the goods in the form on the website. You either pick up your ordered goods from Anette Nilsson, Communications Officer, in Anatomen at Medicinaregatan 3, or you may ask to have them sent to you in the internal mail. As of this semester, however, the possibility to order profile goods at Servicecenter Academicum has ended, as this has moved and become Servicecenter Medicinareberget.
Order your profile goods here: https://medarbetarportalen.gu.se/sahlgrenskaakademin/Kommunikation/Profilvaror/profilvaror

As new to the Swedish research system, one is faced with a series of questions, about what applies to qualifications, what the networks look like, but also practical issues. To make things easier, YAS has developed a guide for international researchers, to help navigate Swedish academia and remove time-consuming obstacles.

The guide is available for free: Pdf-format / Epub-format available here

The Young Academy of Sweden is an independent, interdisciplinary academy for a selection of the most prominent younger researchers in Sweden.

SciLifeLab seeks a researcher at associate or full professor level, or an assistant professor or scientist with equivalent experience who is able and interested in directing the planning and the launch of the DDLS research school together with the 11 DDLS partner organizations. It is a 2- year assignment with a possibility of prolongation at about 0,4 FTE (available from mid-October). The director can be assigned to any of the participating DDLS universities or the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Read more here: https://www.scilifelab.se/career/assignment-ddls-research-school-director/

Deadline for application is September 19th, 2022.