University of Stavanger

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The University of Stavanger is situated in the most attractive region in the country, with some 300 000 inhabitants.
Stavanger is the oil and energy capital in Norway with a dynamic job market and exciting culture- and leisure activities. The interplay between the university and society and business is rich and diverse.
Academic life at the University of Stavanger is organised into ...six faculties, comprising a total of 14 departments/schools and two National Research Centres, as well as the Museum of Archaeology. The university also has a unit for lifelong learning called UiS Pluss.
Many of the externally financed research activities are performed in cooperation with our research institute - International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS).
Several other research centres are organised as consortiums of The University of Stavanger, IRIS and other actors.
Validé is our tool for commercialisation of research ideas. The Stavanger Innovation Park (Ipark) is also located on campus, running incubator activities and helping new enterprises start up.
Two organisations, SiS and StOr (the student union), take care of the students’ welfare and rights.
UiS has undergone a period of rapid development over the last few years. Our dedicated staff must receive credit for this, but also our students and excellent partners throughout the region. We have strong traditions of working with the wider community. This has made us strong, and we intend to build on this strength. Our civic engagement raises our profile as an institution for dissemination and a skills centre, creating values through partnership, in particular by maintaining a strong focus on the social challenges and innovative work of our region. The staff, students and the community will interact to create value in existing and new arenas. The projected technology and innovation building for researchers, students and businesses, and the Student Incubator are just two examples of innovative knowledge development arenas. The fact that Stavanger University Hospital (SUS) is to be located on campus will have significant impact on the development of the student portfolio and our capacity for research and innovation.
Strategy 2017–2020 will empower us to embrace the opportunities and face the challenges that are
only just beginning to arise. We are living in a world that is constantly changing. Technological
developments have led to a digital transformation that affects us all. As a nation, we are in the
process of evolving from a resource-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, which means
we need to invest in knowledge-intensive and entrepreneurial industries. Internationally
competitive research and education institutes play a key role in this scenario, by boosting the
country’s competitiveness and capacity to innovate, and by dealing with its main social challenges.
We have therefore chosen to highlight digitalisation, internationalisation, social development and innovation as multidisciplinary focus areas. The 2017–2020 development agreement between UiS
and the Ministry of Education and Research is based entirely around these focus areas.
We have high ambitions for our students’ education, and we want them to succeed in the labour
market of the future. We will ensure our studies are highly relevant to the workplace, and bringing students into closer contact with the cultural, societal and working environment throughout their studies. We have equally high ambitions for our staff, and our aim is to allow them to commit even more to their students, while also focusing on their own continuing development adding to their professional qualifications. UiS must strengthen its reputation as a higher education institution and Stavanger as a university city must be attractive to ambitious students in the future. The students’ own experience of quality is the best guarantee of this.
We value transparency, and will involve students and the people of the region in the academic
community. We share our knowledge and expertise. Involvement means our decisions rest on a wider
knowledge base. Respect for each other’s differences and backgrounds creates an environment that
fosters social and academic participation. Universal design will be a priority in our studies and our physical and digital learning environment. In our learning environment, diversity is valued as a resource.
We will push forward the boundaries for knowledge and skills. Creativity and innovative activity will define our scientific, artistic and administrative activities. We will promote the application of new knowledge and encourage wise decisions in the community and workplace. We will promote quality of life, good living conditions and sustainable development. Our studies will be educational journeys that develop the individual’s ability to critical thinking and encourage reflective life choices.