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Fifth Polar Law Symposium Program

The fifth Polar Law Symposium takes place at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland on 6-8 September 2012. Professors Gudmundur Alfred...

Wed, Aug 29, 2012

APECS Meeting at 5th Polar Law Symposium, Sept 7, 2012

Conducting research is a complicated issue and the findings are often even more complicated - especially when they need to be explained to lay-persons. T...

Wed, Aug 29, 2012

Workshop on science and photography at Oulanka Research Station, Sept 3-7, 2012

A special course and workshop on science and photography will be arranged at Oulanka research station between 3.9 – 7.9 2012 as part of the Thematic Netw...

Tue, Aug 28, 2012

International summer school encourages multidisciplinary dialogue

The first joint multidisciplinary summer school by Finnish-Russian cross border university networks will collect approximately a hundred students and researc...

Thu, Aug 23, 2012

New book on Arctic Design

"Arctic Design. Opening the Discussion" is the first publication to open the debate on what is 'Arctic design.' Interest in the Arctic region has grown st...

Tue, Aug 21, 2012

New Barents research project starts at the Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi

The Barents International Political Economy (BIPE) researcher network has received funding to start a two-year joint research project in the Barents...

Tue, Aug 07, 2012

New research shows that greenhouse gas emissions from the developed world have dominated the impacts of climate change

Furthermore the developed world CO2 reduction promises would achieve just a third of any warming slowdown, even though they are responsible for more tha...

Wed, Aug 01, 2012

The most important treasure the North gave - Faith

Former Arctic Studies Program (ASP) student Sintija Dzelme tells about her studies in Finland, how they affected her then and later on in her life.

Mon, Jul 30, 2012

ULapland Dissertation: Non-Status Sámi transferring the language

In her dissertation Master of Education and Master of Philosophy in Indigenous Studies at the University of Lapland, Erika Sarivaara examines the revival of...

Wed, Jun 20, 2012

Discovering Siberia

I am a 25-years old third year student of University of Lapland who has always been interested in remote places. I’m doing my bachelors in sociology and w...

Tue, Jun 19, 2012

Meeting on Kolarctic Barents Cross Border University project

On June 5-6, 2012 Narvik University College (Norway) hosted the 5th steering group and working group meeting of Kolarctic ENPI CBC Barents Cross Border...

Tue, Jun 19, 2012

Daria Burnasheva - Master in Arctic Studies

The first time I’ve become involved into the Arctic in 2006, when I took the first course of the BCS program offered by the University of the Arctic. That ti...

Tue, Jun 05, 2012

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