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Two students and one employee are confirmed infected with Covid-19.

¨C Our new design will safeguard the university's strong position both nationally and internationally. It is designed to work well on all digital platforms and give the units greater flexibility to express themselves,  ensuring a holistic approach, says Communications Director Berit Kolberg Rossin¨¦. 

Svein St?len and ?se Gornitzka will be Rector and Pro-rector at the University of Oslo for the next four years. This was decided by the University Board today.

A student at the Faculty of Humanities has been diagnosed with Covid-19. Affected persons have been notified.

The Faculty of Medicine reports that a student has been confirmed infected with Covid-19. Close contacts have been notified and quarantined.

Tuesday 2 March 10.00 a.m, SiO Health will start large-scale Covid-19 testing of students and staff at the University of Oslo. Everyone on the Blindern campus during the next three weeks is encouraged to take a rapid Covid-19 test once a week. 

The faculties can plan for physical teaching for up to 20 people, and student pubs and basements for reopening, as of Monday 1 March.

The University of Oslo is opening reading rooms, libraries and buildings for students from 18 February.

The government allows some students who need skills training or access to experiments back on campus, to prevent them for being delayed in their education, to attend physically from 3 February for an initial period until 10 February.

Two international students at the Faculty of Social Sciences have been confirmed infected with Covid-19. 

The government will implement new infection control measures from 23 January at 12.00. Teaching will be digital for all students, and the campus is closed to students until 31 January 2021. 

The humanities hold a strong position at UiO. A new strategy for the next ten years will secure and strengthen this position both at the university and in society in general.

All new students will be welcomed as planned, however all other lectures run digitally until 18 January 2021.

UiO's Human Rights Award 2020 goes to the Congolese agronomist Marcelline Budza. Mrs. Budza is awarded the prize for her work in securing women's financial rights and increasing their participation in society through the coffee cooperative Rebuild Women's Hope. The award marks the start of this year's Oslo Peace Days.

The sketch applications for the Research Council's announcement of new Centers of Excellence (SFF) reflect that we are a research-intensive broad-based university. We recently submitted a total of 57 sketches. At the same time, we applied for research infrastructure of national importance for more than NOK 3 billion.

In week 48, two students from the Faculty of Medicine were reported infected with Covid-19. The students have not been present at UiO in the time before symptom onset or test result.

The government aims to co-locate parts of the research activities at Oslo University Hospital in the Life Science Building.

Two students at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, respectively, have been infected with Covid-19 this week.

The University of Oslo was informed in week 46 that two persons have been confirmed infected with Covid-19.

The spread of infection in Oslo is at a high level, and today the City Council has introduced a social closure of the capital. UiO remains open, but physical activities will be restricted. Libraries and reading rooms at UiO will stay open, but events and activities have to be cancelled.

The new restrictions will take effect on Monday 9 November at 24.00, initially lasting for three weeks.

During week 44, the University of Oslo has been notified of three cases of confirmed Covid-19 at the Faculty of medicine.

The City Council of Oslo is introducing new measures against the infection and spread of Covid-19 as of 29 October at 12 noon. ¨C UiO is still open, but we are becoming a bit more restrictive. UiO has facilitated for a lot of digital teaching, but we believe that some physical teaching is important both educationally, professionally-socially, and mentally, says Rector Svein St?len.

During week 41, the University of Oslo has been notified of at least 10 cases of confirmed Covid-19.

During week 39, the University of Oslo has been notified of three cases of confirmed Covid-19 relating to three students.

The International Summer School at UiO (ISS) was one of the summer schools in the world that did not cancel due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but instead offered a comprehensive digital alternative. The result has been unexpectedly good, with an overwhelmingly positive response from students.