EU in the Arctic, the Arctic in the EU
11.9.2014 16:22
Nineteen top Arctic institutes in Europe propose establishment of the EU Arctic Information Centre as a network undertaking and with the office at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland.
The proposal is presented in the Network Feasibility Analysis
report, which was published in the final seminar of the project "The EU
in the Arctic, The Arctic in the EU" on 11th September 2014 in Brussels,
Belgium. Reports are available at the website: http://www.arcticinfo.eu/en/sada.
Richard Tibbels (Richard Tibbels, Head of the Eastern Partnership, Regional Cooperation and OSCE Division at the European External Action Service), Erkki Tuomioja (Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland), Hannu Halinen (Arctic Ambassador of Finland), Alan Bowman (Deputy Head of Mission at the Mission of Canada to the European Union) and Lars Anders Baer (Senior member of the Working Group of Indigenous Peoples on the Barents Euro-Arctic Council) take part in the opening session of “The EU in the Arctic, the Arctic in the EU” seminar in Brussels, Belgium, 11 September 2014. Photo: Kamil Jagodzinski / Arctic Centre
Erkki Tuomioja (Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland) and Paula Kankaanpää (Director of the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland) admire the finished copy of the Arctic assessment put together by members of the EU Arctic Information Centre consortium. Photo: Kamil Jagodzinski / Arctic Centre.
More information:
The speech by Minister Tuomioja.
More photos on the Arctic Centre's Facebook page.
More about the seminar on the project website.
See the whole program of the seminar from the www.arcticinfo.eu/en/seminar website.
Analysis of the final seminar and the EUAIC project on the Barents Observer by researcher Adam Stepien.
Contact info:
Director, Professor Paula Kankaanpää, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, paula.kankaanpaa(at)ulapland.fi; +358(0)407777825
Project Manager, Kamil Jagodzinski, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, kamil.jagodzinski(at)ulapland.fi; +358(0)400391337
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