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  • EU Arctic Information Centre gets European Parliament support

    13.3.2014 12:56

    The European Parliament has accepted in the Plenary 12th March 2014 a resolution on the Arctic Strategy for the EU. The resolution includes paragraphs that support the establishment of the EU Arctic Information Centre as a networked undertaking with a permanent office in Rovaniemi. The Parliament also urges the Commission to proceed swiftly on the establishment of the EU Arctic Information Centre after the results of the 18 months Preparatory Action (PA) project on the Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment of Development of the Arctic to be published this spring.

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  • Finnish-Japanese seminar on Northern indigenous peoples

    27.2.2014 14:42

    The Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland and the Muroran Institute of Technology from Hokkaido, Japan, organize together a seminar on “Cultural Resilience and Human Rights – Perspectives of Northern Indigenous Peoples”. Last several years, the University of Lapland and the Muroran Institute of Technology have strengthened their reciprocal cooperation and during the seminar days the rectors of the two institutes will sign a Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutes.

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  • Training course for Barents journalists

    24.2.2014 12:15

    A group of almost 20 journalists from northern Norway and north-west Russia start on Monday 24th of February 2014 a training course arranged in Rovaniemi and Oulu, Finland, in order to boost their journalist networks and enhance communication in the Barents region. Participants also get to know important Northern Finnish discussion themes such as economy and tourism. The course is arranged by the Barents Mediasphere project led by the Arctic Centre, the University of Lapland.

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  • New book exhibition: Barents Stories – How Do We See the Sea?

    14.2.2014 9:38

    A new book exhibition about people on the shores of the Barents Sea will be opened on Thursday 20th February at 16:15, at the Arctic Centre Library, Arktikum house. The exhibition ‘Barents Stories – How Do We See the Sea?’ is based on materials collected during expeditions in the High Arctic by Senior Researcher Anna Stammler-Gossmann from Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland.

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  • Coming: Mapped Beauty

    28.1.2014 14:04

    What did the Great North look like from the southern point of view hundreds of years ago? From whose point of view history is written? Is the land really found only when a white man discovers it?

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  • International evaluation: University of Lapland has the potential to turn its small size to advantage

    17.1.2014 15:15

    After a careful review of the international research being done at the University of Lapland, an international committee has recommended that all research be aligned under the profile For the North – For the World and that tourism research be reframed as a strategic focus area. The committee also recommends that the University should strengthen its line of research focusing on sustainable development in the areas of environmental education and on art and design.

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  • Arctic media debate was held in Helsinki

    16.1.2014 17:44

    On Wednesday 15th January the Barents Mediasphere project organized a media event at the International Press Club in Helsinki.

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  • China-Nordic Arctic Research Center inaugurated

    11.12.2013 10:12

    On December 10th 2013, the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC), and six institutes from the Nordic countries as well as three other institutes from China signed in Shanghai a Cooperation Agreement on the China-Nordic Arctic Research Center (CNARC) to formally mark the inauguration of CNARC. Finland is represented by the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland.

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  • Visiting lecturer on new developments in social impact assessment

    14.11.2013 13:20

    Frank Vanclay, Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Groningen, will give a lecture on social impact assessments on Wednesday, November 27, at the Arktikum House. Social impact assessments are an essential part of large-scale industrial development projects. In Finland social impacts are assessed under the environmental impact assessment required by law. Professor Vanclay’s lecture ”New Developments in Social Impact Assessment” will focus especially on new directions and developments and best practices in social impact assessment procedures.

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  • Every researcher has a story

    6.11.2013 14:07

    Behind every research there is a person and every person has a story. From this background, the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland has developed a captivating and modern way to tell about the research done in the institution.

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