Helge Ole Bergesen died on 29th of June, from cancer. He worked for the Fridtjof Nansen Institute from 1979 to 2006, except his term as State Secretary from 2001 to 2005. In 2006 he became the first Research Director at the University of Stavanger.

According to statistics published by the Research Council of Norway, researchers at FNI were Norway's most productive in 2014 when it comes to academic publishing, just as they were in 2013.