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Successfull NORA funded workshop

The Røst users' workshop 'The New Nordic Periphery. Municipal Learning Through Local Innovations' was successfull, seen from the researchers point of view, bringing the research further, but also telling from the evaluations from other participants. The workshop took place at Røst, 22-24 September 2004.

Start up for the 'Globalisation from Below' project

Four subprojects are so far designed and the first open workshop 'Mobilities, Knowledges, Politics'is coming up in April 2005, as part of the project 'Globalization from Below? Localized Transformations in a Northern Perspective'(2004-2007).

"Innovations in the Nordic Periphery" - The fourth MOST CCPP anthology published autumn 2004

The NORDREGIO research report "Innovations in the Nordic Periphery", was published September 2004 in Stockholm. This report is the fourth anthology published by the MOST CCPP researchers network. A start out question is: Are municipalities in the extreme Nordic periphery viable environments for innovative actions that can halt the population decline?

Circumpolar Coping Processes Project, Department of Planning and Community Studies / Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
Email: bgranaas@sv.uit.no, phone +47 77 64 55 21, fax +47 77 64 64 70
Editor: fakultetsdirektør Bjarte Toftaker