NEWS This week 31 leading representatives for ten different countries will meet at Umeå University in Sweden. During three days these leaders will discuss how to optimize the conditions for research and education to benefit the northern and Arctic regions.
Umeå University’s Vice-Chancellor Lena Gustafsson is enthusiastic about the strong influx to the meeting.
– It is important that we strengthen our networks for research and education in the north, not least now, seeing how the Arctic area increasingly comes into focus, she says.
In addition to the eight Arctic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Russia and the US – universities in Japan and the UK are also represented. All attending schools are members of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) – a network organisation that consists of more than 170 universities, institutes, and other organisations working for Arctic research and higher education.
Umeå University’s arctic centre, Arcum, hosts the meetings. Parallel to the Rector’s Forum there is a corresponding program for students and doctoral students.
Arcum – Arctic Research Centre at Umeå University
Program, list of participants etc internal.uarctic.org/governance/rectors-forum
Peter Sköld, director of Arcum, phone + 46 70-363 04 21
Lena Maria Nilsson, research coordinator at Arcum, phone +46 70375 86 42
Photo: Bergslagsbild
Editor: Michael Nordvall