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Expert lists for journalists at Arctic Frontiers 2014: Humans in the Arctic.   

Dog sledding and the Finnmarksløpet sled dog race are now being offered as a part of their own university course for the first time ever in Norway and Europe. The course will be offered beginning in the winter of 2015.

Sharon Edmunds wanted to prove that it’s possible to graduate from an Arctic-based university. That’s why she ended in Alta and UiT – the Arctic University of Norway. 

This important question and dilemma with reference to the extraction of renewable and non-renewable natural resources from the Barents Sea was raised by Gunnar Reinholdtsen, from the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature, in his lecture at Gargia Conference.

In November 2012, UArctic Thematic Network on Local and Regional Development and the North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU) organized a regional development workshop and business school in Anabar, the autonomous Dolgan and Evenki region of northern Yakutia. The aim of the participants was to ensure that their home community would be developed in an ecological and sustainable way

Everyone talks about Rudolph the reindeer’s red nose. But the most remarkable thing about reindeer is that their eyes change colour in the winter from gold to blue.

A lack of qualified Norwegian teachers and teaching in Norwegian has led UiT The Arctic University of Norway to start a Norwegian study programme in Murmansk.

The theme for this year’s Gargia conference is ecology and sustainable business and community development in the Arctic. This year’s conference will also be a celebration of 10 years of development work among indigenous Arctic peoples and in rural areas.

Researcher Balpreet Ahluwalia at Department of Physics and Technology has received a Prestigious ERC Starting Grant. Only three other Norwegian scientists have achieved the same.