Launch

AI LEARN Research Centre Opening

December 3, 2025

13:00 - 15:00

Lesetorget Dialogen, Christies gate 12, 2nd floor.

SLATE invites you to attend the official opening of AI LEARN, one of Norway's six new national AI centres!

AI LEARN (AI Centre for the Empowerment of Human Learning) is an interdisciplinary and intersectional research centre. As part of the national initiative on artificial intelligence, AI LEARN received 200 million kroner in support from the Research Council of Norway in June of 2025, the largest single grant ever given to a research centre at the University of Bergen. The centre’s purpose is understanding and shaping the human aspects of interaction with and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The aim is to ensure a sustainable, inclusive and responsible integration of AI across both public and private sectors and for all citizens.

AI LEARN conducts research at the intersection of AI, technology, law, ethics and the interaction between human and machine, as well as psychology, pedagogy, working life and education, with an emphasis on having a critical approach to various issues related to hybrid intelligence.

_{Professor Barbara Wasson being congratulated by Minister of Research and Higher Education Sigrun Aasland, during the press conference with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, the six AI centre leaders and Research Council leader Mari Sundli Tveit in June, 2025. Photo: Pinar Heggernes.}

You are now welcome to attend the official opening of AI LEARN and meet some of the people behind the new research centre. AI LEARN is led by the University of Bergen (UiB) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The co-directors are Professor Barbara Wasson, Director of SLATE, UiB, and Professor Michalis Giannakos, NTNU.

Today, AI LEARN has 35 national and international partners from academia and the public and private sectors. With contributions from the centre's partners, AI LEARN's budget is currently at 360 million.

Professor Kjell-Morten Myhr, Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and Collaboration, and Stine Lehmann, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, will be leading the formal opening of AI LEARN.

To attend the event, register HERE. Registration deadline: Friday November 28th. Cake and non-alcoholic bubbles will be served!

The Future of AI LEARN

During the next year, AI LEARN will be hiring approximately 25 PhD, Postdoc, and Researcher positions in a variety of fields at these universities:

NTNU (Trondheim, Norway)

University of Bergen (Bergen, Norway)

‍University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)

University of Murcia (Murcia, Spain)

The first round of hiring is underway. Read more here.