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Book exhibition "Northern Language - Arctic Mind"

Arctic Fury film and media festival in Arktikum

Arctic Fury brings light and color to the darkness of Arctic Circle on 6. - 10.11. of November 2012 in Rovaniemi.

International science journal for the Barents region

The Arctic Centre has received Kolarctic ENPI funding to start a two-year project to develop an international academic publication, the Barents Journal. The idea of the Barents Journal is to provide scientific knowledge and latest research news related to developmental processes within the Barents Region as well as socio-economic, political, environmental developments, and thus providing information outside and within the programme area.

Arctic Centre’s researchers explore the impacts of climate change on the rights of indigenous peoples and women

The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, has been granted 25 000 euros by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Unit for Human Rights Policy, to study the impact of climate change on human rights, especially on vulnerable groups. A particular focus will be placed on indigenous peoples and women, who worldwide often bear a heavy burden in coping with the effects of climate change.

New project to improve Finnish environmental impact assessment processes in the Arctic regions of Finland and Russia

The Arctic Centre has been awarded Tekes (the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation) funding to start a two-year strategic research project in the Arctic region. The project strengthens Finland’s role as an international expert in the environmental impact assessment know-how in the Arctic and supports Finnish companies in their environmental impact assessment (EIA) work in Lapland and Arctic Russia.

Estonian Minister of Education and Research Jaak Aaviksoo lecturing at the university

Estonia’s Minister of Education and Research Jaak Aaviksoo will be lecturing at the University of Lapland on Wednesday 24 October from 11.00 to 12.00 in lecture room 6. Aaviksoo’s lecture focuses on the status of small countries in a globalizing world.

Cooperation between Arctic Centre and Salekhard museum

A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland and the Yamal-Nenets museum and exhibition complex in Salekhard, Yamal-Nenets autonomous region in Western Siberia. The memorandum opens doors for new cooperation possibilities in the future. It was signed in September 27th by director of the Arctic Centre professor Paula Kankaanpää and director of the museum Sergey Grishin during a visit to Salekhard by a delegation from Arctic Centre.

Seasonal tourist destinations may have fundamental effect on bird assemblages

New research emphasizes the importance of improving land use planning of northern ski resorts and conserving birds at seasonal tourist towns. Arctic Centre's researchers Marja-Liisa Kaisanlahti-Jokimäki and Jukka Jokimäki have studied impacts of seasonal urbanization bird assemblages in Lapland in cooperation with the Forest Research Institute and Oulanka research station.

Professor Sandra Harding visits Arctic Centre and University of Lapland

Professor Sandra Harding will visit Arctic Centre and University of Lapland on 1-5 October. During her visit, professor Harding will give five visitor lectures on topics such as strong objectivity, standpoint methodologies and postcolonial and feminist science and technology studies. Also a one-day workshop about the theme “Indigenous Knowledge Systems” will be arranged at Arctic Centre.

Dissertation: Viewing regional climate variability in Svalbard through the lens of ice chemistry and statistics

Emilie Beaudon’s doctoral research closes a geographical gap in the current knowledge of the European Arctic climate variability by investigating the chemistry of the snow and new ice cores extracted from Svalbard ice caps. This work provides new essential keys for future ice core based environmental reconstructions and climate model projections for the Barents region.