diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e2a60e0..217e8f5 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# NERDA 1.0.0
+
+* NERDA model class is now equipped with functions for saving (loading) weights for a fine-tuned NERDA Network to (from) file. See functions model.save_network() and model.load_network_from_file()
+
 # NERDA 0.9.7
 
 * return confidence scores for predictions of all tokens, e.g. model.predict(x, return_confidence=True).
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8dbac5f..78ab795 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name="NERDA", 
-    version="0.9.7",
+    version="1.0.0",
     author="Lars Kjeldgaard, Lukas Christian Nielsen",
     author_email="lars.kjeldgaard@eb.dk",
     description="A Framework for Finetuning Transformers for Named-Entity Recognition",
diff --git a/src/NERDA/models.py b/src/NERDA/models.py
index bbd8537..00dc3c4 100644
--- a/src/NERDA/models.py
+++ b/src/NERDA/models.py
@@ -230,8 +230,24 @@ def load_network_from_file(self, model_path = "model.bin") -> str:
         # TODO: change assert to Raise.
         assert os.path.exists(model_path), "File does not exist. You can download network with download_network()"
         self.network.load_state_dict(torch.load(model_path, map_location = torch.device(self.device)))
+        self.network.device = self.device
         return f'Weights for network loaded from {model_path}'
 
+    def save_network(self, model_path:str = "model.bin") -> None:
+        """Save Weights of NERDA Network
+
+        Saves weights for a fine-tuned NERDA Network to file.
+
+        Args:
+            model_path (str, optional): Path for model file. 
+                Defaults to "model.bin".
+
+        Returns:
+            Nothing. Saves model to file as a side-effect.
+        """
+        torch.save(self.network.state_dict(), model_path)
+        print(f"Network written to file {model_path}")
+
     def quantize(self):
         """Apply dynamic quantization to increase performance.