10 March: fyi -- research director, Norway

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RESEARH DIRECT0R

AKSIS (Department of Culture, Language and Information Technology) is a
research and development Centre that is organised in three research
groups: Language Technology, Text Technology and Intermedia (with among
other interests, technology enhanced learning). Research and development
at AKSIS is interdisciplinary and is often in collaboration with
researchers at the University of Bergen. AKSIS also collaborates with
other research and development groups both nationally and internationally,
governmental and private. AKSIS has 30-40 researchers, programmers and
consultants with a yearly budget of approximately 25 million kroner
(approx. 3.5 million Euros).

AKSIS is a department in University Research Bergen (Unifob) a non-profit
research organisation affiliated to the University of Bergen
(http://www.unifob.no). While the major sources of funding have come from
the Norwegian Research Council, the University of Bergen, Ministries and
the EU), the department has ambitions to strengthen research collaboration
with industry.

AKSIS invites applications for a vacant position as Research Director. The
Research Director will lead both the research activities and
administration, and have personnel responsibility for AKSIS employees. The
Research Director will be a member of Unifob's leader group and reports to
Unifob's Managing Director. We are looking for a Research Director who,
together with his researchers, can further develop AKSIS as a Research
Centre at a high international level. The Research Director needs to have
a Ph.D, and it is an advantage to have been found qualified as a full
professor. The position requires relevant leadership experience and a
person who has strengths in strategic thinking, project development and
has a successful grant record. It is also a requirement to have the
ability to develop new ideas with regard to research themes and strategies
in collaboration with other researchers at the Centre. The Research
Director must be good at building collaboration - national and
international - with different research groups, industry and the
governmental sector.

More info at:

http://gandalf.uib.no/research_director.pdf

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