Frequently Asked Questions

Which licence to choose when you want to share your software for further usage is regulated by the university here. Basically your group leader has to decide. Without a licence your software cannot legally be modified or redistributed by others.

The central linux HPC cluster is here. 

Detailed instructions about how to access and use it can be found here.

DSL staff can be entered as “Other Employee” in an SNSF application. The DSL has three levels of employees with corresponding salary rates: Early, Advanced and Senior. Level and employment percentage you decide together with DSL, reflecting the tasks in your research plan.    

If you think it would be good for your project, senior DSL staff may also act as project partners. Senior DSL employees have several years of research and publication background. Publications are not a performance indicator for DSL staff. However, if intellectual contributions justify co-authorship, this is often appreciated. 

Please contact the DSL director for more information.

The central service portal is here. It covers many of the services from the central domain, e.g. the central IT services.

The data protection officer is sitting in the Legal Services Office of the University. The swiss law is here (no english version).

The regulations, resolutions and guidelines regarding the operation and use of IT resources at the University of Bern are here (in German only).