In collaboration with the Sahlgrenska Academy Student Union (SAKS), the faculty has produced a survey that will be sent to all students at Sahlgrenska Academy. In the questionnaire, students get to answer how they have experienced the period of distance teaching so far. The experience reported will be used as a basis in the planning of teaching under continued restrictions this fall.

 

 

From 1 June the fee for parking at the University’s parking areas will be increased, and from January this year, there is only one type of parking permit, which is valid on all of the University’s parking areas. The parking fee for cars has remained unchanged since 2014 and has therefore not followed the parking fee trend in Gothenburg. The new parking rules state that the cost of using the University’s parking spaces must correspond to the market price for equivalent parking spaces nearby, to make sure it is not classified as a taxable benefit. The fee at the parking areas at Medicinareberget will therefore be lower than the fees at more central addresses. There is now only one type of permit, and this gives permit holders the right to park at all of the University’s parking areas. From 2021, an administrative fee of 100 SEK will be levied for the permit. Read further in the Staff Portal.

Weeks 20 and 21 (from Tuesday May 12, until Friday May 22) the food truck Tikka Roti, in addition to its usual selection of Indian and Pakistani dishes, also serves street food from Venezuela. The food truck is open 11am to 1pm every weekday, at lunchtime in the parking lot outside the Academicum.

The Biomedical Library has now launched a virtual information desk, open every weekday 10-11 and 14-15. There you can get help with shorter questions about your loans, reservations or about library collections and e-resources. To the information desk in Zoom: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/61143519793

The University of Gothenburg has recently been subjected to a serious cyber attack via Zoom, known as “zoom bombing”. Such attacks have also occured at other universities. It is therefore of upmost importance that all employees familiarize themselves with the university’s security recommendations for Zoom: https://medarbetarportalen.gu.se/verktyg/zoom/sakerhet/
Please visit this page regularly as the recommendations may change depending on the security situation.

From July 1, 2020, Sahlgrenska Cancer Center on Medicinareberget will change its name and will then be called Sahlgrenska Center for Cancer Research, or in Swedish Sahlgrenska Centrum för cancerforskning. The new name has been prepared by the center’s steering committee and decided by the Sahlgrenska Academy’s faculty board. The name change takes place to avoid confusion, since a center with the name Sahlgrenska Cancer Center was formed at Sahlgrenska University Hospital as part of the process for the hospital to become a Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Akademiliv congratulates the seven former doctoral students who have been awarded this year’s thesis. The thesis of the year for the entire Sahlgrenska Academy 2019 is about the Alzheimer marker neurogranin, and was written by Hlin Kvartsberg (Akademiliv will get back with a longre article). The other award winners are Joakim Karlsson (Biomedicine),  Maria Frånlund (Clinical Sciences), Maria Bygdell (Medicine), Fredrik Hieronymus (Neuroscience and Physiology), Maha El Shahawy (Odontology), and Anna Wessberg (Healt and Care Sciences). Congratulations! The awards ceremony, which was scheduled to take place at the end of May, has been canceled due to the corona situation.

For a test period, the Biomedical Library now offers access to the LWW Health Library. The database contains films, texts, knowledge tests and case descriptions in a variety of areas, including pharmacy, medical education, physiotherapy, advanced nursing and internal medicine. The library’s trial period of the database runs until June 15. Here you will find LWW Health Library: https://www.ub.gu.se/sv/databaser/lww-health-library#refering

The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings is a sustainability ranking of the world’s higher education institutions that will measure how universities contribute to the global goals of sustainable development. The ranking is based on all the 17 global goals in Agenda 2030. It was first published in April 2019, when more than 400 higher education institutions participated and the University of Gothenburg ended up in sixth place. Nearly 800 higher education institutions participated in the 2020 version of the ranking, and the University of Gothenburg ended up at 45. Read more about the ranking here: https://www.gu.se/omuniversitetet/aktuellt/nyheter/detalj//stark-placering-trots-okad-konkurrens-i-global-hallbarhetsrankning.cid1684119

The Center for Person-Centered Care at the University of Gothenburg (GPCC) has developed a number of digital tools that provide knowledge about person-centered care. The tools can easily be used in distance education and are available in Swedish and English. They are free and available to everyone. A person-centered learning activity was tested earlier this spring for students at the dietician program by zoom, in a session that took 2 hours and 45 minutes. In this case, several of the educational tools developed by GPCC were used. They played the PCV game before the session and then conducted various interactive activities. Read more on GPCC’s web site: https://gpcc.gu.se/aktuellt/fulltext//behover-ni-id-er-till-distansundervisning–anvand-garna-gpccs-pedagogiska-digitala-verktyg-om-personcentrerad-vard-.cid1679990