Eric K. Fernström’s Foundation for the Advancement of Scientific Medical Research has decided, after careful consideration, to cancel this year’s announcement of Eric K. Fernström’s award to younger, especially promising and successful researchers, often called the Minor Fernströms Prize. The reason is the great uncertainty about whether it is possible to have an awards ceremony with associated festivities in November as planned, under the circumstances.
Thus, the nominations submitted for the Lilla Fernströms Prize will not be considered this year, but are invited to be nominated next year instead. The maximum age for applicants will temporarily be extended by one year to 46. Next year’s announcement is planned to come out after the turn of the year.

 

 

During the summer, the Biomedical Library is open to all visitors Monday – Friday, 12.00 – 16.00. The Humanist Library is also open for all the same times throughout the summer, while the Pedagogical Library will be open for a period this summer for visitors with a GU card. All libraries are available by phone for questions weekdays 10am to 4pm, and the library’s information desk via Zoom is open Monday-Friday, 10am to 11am, and 2pm to 3pm.

During June, July and August, the food truck Tikka Roti will be open three days a week, usually Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Deviations are reported with the sign at the vehicle. Week 24 and 25 (June 8 – June 19), the food truck Tikka Roti, in addition to its usual selection of Indian and Pakistani dishes, also serves street food from Equador. The food truck is open 11: 00-13:30, the weekdays when it is parked in the lot outside Academicum. Week 26 (June 22-28), the food truck has taken time off for vacation.

As no ceremonies can be carried out in the foreseeable future, the Vice- Chancellor has decided that this year’s Conferment of Doctoral Degrees is moved from October to 15 January 2021. Inauguration of New Professors will also be moved again. The new date is not yet set. The Diploma Ceremony for the students is a much smaller event, which hopefully still can take place as planned on December 15 in Vasaparken. The dates of the ceremonies in 2021 can be found on Academic Ceremonies webb at the Staff Portal.

The call for project grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation with a deadline of February 1, 2021 has been canceled. However, the 2020 call for proposals, which had a deadline of February 1, 2020, will be implemented according to plan.
Wallenberg Academy Fellows will be announced according to plans 2021 and 2023. Extension grants for Wallenberg Academy Fellows and Wallenberg Clinical Scholars will be implemented according to plan. All decided funding will be implemented in accordance with the donation letters.
If you have any questions, please contact the Wallenberg Foundations contact person at GU (ulf.nilsson@gu.se, 0709-831672).

Sahlgrenska Academy now has a new database for the medical program’s thesis, with updated projects and a structure that provides a better overview. Clinicians and researchers who can offer projects that correspond to one semester’s work, including report writing, are now invited to include these in the database. Since the students who might otherwise have placed their master thesis abroad will be forced to stay at home this year because of the pandemic, there is a beed for more than usual projects in Gothenburg this fall.

• Supervisors post new projects here: https://bokning.it.gu.se/VPLhandledare
• Medical students who want to see available projects use this address: https://bokning.it.gu.se/VPLstudent/

The institutions are now working intensively to make web pages about research groups, research projects and educations for GU’s new web, to be published on September 2. Information from your current personal page will also be transferred to the new staff directory, which gives everyone with x-account their own and improved personal page. You have until July 31 to update information in your resume, selected publications and make sure that there is a current photo. When the new web is launched on September 2, you will have to make future updates in the new staff directory.

How to update your information:

1. Log in to the Staff Portal and click on your name in the top right, you will get a drop-down list. Under the Profile & settings menu you will find Edit personal presentation.
2. Once you get to the page, you need to scroll to the bottom of the page to get to the section where you can change your presentation. There you see the same information that is visible on the person page.
3. By clicking Edit your text you can add a personal description of what you are working on, you can add links, upload a resume and add a picture. The image should be 220 x 260 pixels to fit the page.
4. You can also change your contact information under Change contact information in the staff directory under the Profile & settings menu.

On the Staff Portal there are additional instructions and a good guide for how to edit your personal information.

Chalmers University of Technology, the Sahlgrenska Academy and the Sahlgrenska University Hospital have decided, in a strategic effort, to link research within the respective areas of expertise of each organization. A project coordinator is now being sought who wants to help build and run the research school together with a steering group. The assignment is 4-year and corresponds to about 30% of full-time. The deadline for applications is 31 August. Read more here (Swedish): https://gubox.box.com/s/kcbj9smorlkiqcku8ez8xw992pqk9558

A national data portal has recently been launched, which makes research on covid-19 available, coordinated by SciLifeLab and the Swedish Research Council. The data portal simplifies for researchers to find and share relevant research data. For more information: https://www.kliniskastudier.se/5.d4f8cf2172631dd7d11c.html

The higher education institutions continue to be responsible for adapting teaching and reducing the spread of infection, even after June 15 when the government announced that universities may re-open for some campus teaching. The University of Gothenburg is preparing for an adapted return to campus, which will probably mean that the teaching in some parts will be carried out digitally also in the fall. The university management and faculties are now investigating how the government’s message affects different education programs, and what may need to be changed in the distance teaching decision made by the Vice-Chancellor on May 11. A supplementary Vice-Chancellor’s decision is expected to be announced before June 6, which will be followed by information on what this means for Sahlgrenska Academy. Read more about the government decision on the Staff Portal.