May has been a month full of holidays, and I hope you all enjoyed it! One big event at IGS this month was the Department Day, which was very well organized by the research committee fronted by research leader Ingvild F. Sandøy. The topic for the meeting was implementing our research findings in policy and practice. It was a pleasure to see so many of you attending. You can read more about the meeting here.
After an intensive period of meetings and discussions about office space in the new building at Alrek Health Cluster, it is now time to attend to the content of the cluster. We are going to move in together with parts of the Faculty of Psychology, Uni Research Health, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences /Høgskulen på Vestlandet) and Bergen municipality. How can we strengthen our research and teaching through better collaboration with these and other partners in the future? This will be the topic for the upcoming meeting in June in the Strategy Forum of IGS, comprising all research group leaders, teaching group leaders, center leaders as well as the extended leadership group.