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The Arctic Six

Umeå University is part of a unique collaboration together with five Arctic universities in Sweden, Finland and Norway with the aim to lead the way in Arctic issues. This alliance has a signed agreement on a "Joint Arctic Agenda", where the goal is to advance and share knowledge, education, research and innovations to develop a more sustainable Arctic. Together, the universities form The Arctic Six.

In Focus

We are The Arctic Six

Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Nord University, Norway
UiT–The Arctic University of Norway
Umeå University, Sweden
The University of Lapland, Finland
The University of Oulu, Finland

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Structure

The Arctic Six is a collaboration between six Arctic universities in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Each university has representatives in the Rector's council, Executive Team, Student's Team, and Communications Team. The Arctic Six Chairs and Fellows programmes have representatives from each university. 

Umeå University representatives

Chairs 2024–2026

Armando F J Perez Cueto Eulert

Armando Perez-Cueto

Arctic Six Chair

Professor at Department of Food, Nutrition and Culinary Science

My project is titled "Sustainable food transitions in the Arctic" and aims to develop a network of practitioners in The Arctic Six in matters related to sustainable food systems in the Arctic.

Read more about Armando Perez-Cueto

Björn Norlin

Björn Norlin

Arctic Six Chair

Associate professor at Department of Education

My project is called "Truth commissions, teacher education and the Sámi", and aims to explore how teacher education at the Arctic Six universities is organised to prepare student teachers for teaching about Sámi and Sámi related themes.

Read more about Björn Norlin

Porträtt av Daniel Metcalfe

Daniel Metcalfe

Arctic Six Chair

Professor at Department of Ecology and Environmental Science

The project is called "Improved monitoring of northern forest carbon", and aims to advance scientific understanding of the pattern, and underlying drivers, of carbon allocation and cycling in northern forests.

Read more about Daniel Metcalfe

Portrait of Danielle Wilde

Danielle Wilde

Arctic Six Chair

Professor at Umeå Institute of Design (UID)

My research project is about Arctic Food Citizenship and aims to develop environmental food citizenship in the North, with emphasis on indigenous knowledge.

Read more about Danielle Wilde

Portrait of Niklas Eklund

Niklas Eklund

Arctic Six Chair

Professor at Department of Political Science

My project is about Arctic security, and the aim is to build knowledge on the intersection between international, national, and local perspectives on securitization in the fields of defense, commerce, and climate

Read more about Niklas Eklund

Fellows 2023

Philip Jerand, Idé- och samhällsstudier vid Umeå universitet.

Philip Jerand

Arctic Five Fellow

Senior research assistant at Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

Read more about Philip Jerand

Audrey Schillings

Audrey Schillings

Arctic Five Fellow

Postdoctoral fellow at Department of Physics

Read more about Audrey Schillings

Albin Stjernbrandt

Albin Stjernbrandt

Arctic Five Fellow

Research Fellow at Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine

Read more about Albin Stjernbrandt

Människa

Magnus Zingmark

Arctic Five Fellow

Associate professor at Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation

Read more about Magnus Zingmark

Student's Team

Victor Holmström, President
Umeå student union

William Nordberg, Chairman
Umeå Student Union of Science and Technology (NTK)

Samuel Sahlin, Head of Educational Matters
Umeå Student Union of Science and Technology (NTK)

Communications Team

Monica Börlin

Monica Börlin

Communications Officer

Communications Officer at Arctic Centre at Umeå University

Read more about Monica Börlin

 

Former representatives

Chairs 2022–2024

Hans Pettersson
Research fellow at Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine

Janina Priebe
Associate professor at Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

Malcolm Christopher Lillie
Formerly Professor at Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

Miguel San Sebastian
Professor at Department of Epidemiology and Global Health

 

More information

Keith Larson

Director

+46 90 786 50 29
keith.larson@umu.se

Office: A Working Lab

 

Anngelica Kristoferqvist

Anngelica Kristoferqvist

Project Coordinator

+46 90 786 54 35
+46 76 696 24 35
anngelica.kristoferqvist@umu.se

Office: A Working Lab

News

Porträtt på Anna-Lill Drugge och Björn Norlin
Researchers at Umeå University granted funding from the Swedish Research Council

Björn Norlin and Anna-Lill Drugge were granted funding for their project within teacher education.

Armando F J Perez
Exploring the future of food and nutrition in the Arctic

Arctic Six Chair, Professor Armando Perez-Cueto, will explore sustainable food transitions in the Arctic.

Daniel Metcalfe
Arctic Six project will reveal forests’ role in climate change

Daniel Metcalfe will initiate a research project on measuring carbon stocks and fluxes in Arctic forests.

Rector Hanne Solheim Hansen stands by a roll up, crossing over "five" and writing "six"
The Arctic Five becomes The Arctic Six

Nord University became a sixth member of the Arctic Five alliance, making the alliance into The Arctic Six.

Panel vid Arctic Circle Assembly i Reykjavik
Important discussion about truth commissions and knowledge dissemination in the Arctic

Björn Norlin and Mati Keynes from Department of Education participated at the Arctic Circle Assembly.

The Arctic Five members sits around a big table
Arctic Centre hosts collaborative event for the Arctic Five

Arctic Centre hosted a meet-up for all members of the Arctic Five at Umeå University.

Umeå University's Arctic Five Chairs Announced

Umeå university has received five new Arctic Five Chairs 2024-2026.

Hans Pettersson, Albin Stjernbrandt, Rebecca Tapper, and Jens Wahlström
Umeå University is highly represented at Arctic Congress 2024

The Arctic Congress 2024 gathered many researchers from Umeå University who presented their research.

Dag Avango and Lars Kullerud shake hands
The Arctic Five becomes a new UArctic Regional Centre

The Arctic Five has officially been established as a UArctic Regional Centre.

Latest update: 2024-11-20