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Updating of the ArcticFinland.fi website and the newsletter will be suspended
5.5.2020 15:20
The active updating of the content on the ArcticFinland.fi website and the ArcticFinland newsletter will be suspended for the time being. Basic information and documents concerning Finland's Arctic activities are available on the website, and they will still be kept up to date.
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Bruce Forbes to coordinate a major international project
27.4.2020 13:15
Advancing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities. This is the aim for CHARTER, a new EU Horizon 2020 funded project, coordinated by Professor Bruce Forbes of Arctic Centre. The European Commission has just signed the papers and work can begin.
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Arctic Centre's Annual Report 2019
21.4.2020 11:02
Arctic Centre's annual report 2019 is now published.
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Doctoral Dissertation: When we got reindeer, we moved to live to the tundra - The spoken and Silenced History of the Yamal Nenets
18.4.2020 14:39
Roza Laptander´s dissertation is based on the stories of the Nenets reindeer herders from the Yamal peninsula, Western Siberia. It shows that spoken stories and interviews concerning big changes on the tundra reflect a general mechanism of making Nenets official historical narratives. Through analysing silence in the example of the Yamal Nenets people stories, Laptander studied the role of silence and silencing offering a new approach to understanding how small indigenous societies keep memories and stories about their past.
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Not only temperature controls the nutrient cycle in the Arctic
15.4.2020 11:42
Researchers from Umeå University, Germany and Finland discover novel mechanism clarifying the slow nutrient cycling in Arctic soils. Absence of earthworms can explain why Arctic plants are starving for nitrogen. The study was published 14.4.2020 in the prestigious Nature Communications.
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Doctoral Dissertation: Back Stakeholder pressure strengthens mining companies’ corporate social responsibility in the Barents Region
23.3.2020 9:28
The doctoral dissertation by FM Adrian Braun, entitled "Corporate Social Responsibility in the Barents region – A Situational Analysis of Metal Mining" will be publicly examined online at the University of Eastern Finland on 24.3.2020 at 12. Braun is the visiting researchers of the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland.
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Arktikum turns green on St. Patrick’s Day
13.3.2020 16:19
Arktikum in Rovaniemi turns green on St. Patrick’s Day on 17 March 2020. The glass tube of Arktikum illuminates green a whole day and night.
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Finnish Nature Photographs of the Year in Arktikum
4.3.2020 10:11
Finnish Nature Photographs of the Year 2019 are on display in spring exhibition in Arktikum Science Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland. The new exhibition presents the winners of The Nature Photographs of the Year Competition. The winner photograph is “Bear and Raven” by Ville Heikkinen.
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Registration is open for the Arctic Migration Conference
28.2.2020 12:39
The Future of the Arctic Human Population: Migration in the North Conference takes place in Rovaniemi, Finland on 28–29 May 2020. This will be the first ever conference on (im)migration in the cap of the north that is a part of series of activities of UArctic Thematic network on Arctic Migration.
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Arctic Centre has a new Scientific Advisory Board
13.2.2020 10:27
The Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland has a new Scientific Advisory Board. The Arctic Centre improves comprehensive understanding of the Arctic through research and science communication and the board members are experts in those fields.
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