Our principles

Our university community operates on the basis of shared principles and common practices. These help us to build a shared vision of our future, ensure smooth flow of operations, and provide an attractive and safe learning and working environment for our students and staff.

Strategy

The LUC strategy underpins our commitment to our vision 2030: to be a Creative Forerunner – Responsible Arctic University Community. Our profile focuses on research on Arctic and northern change and Arctic competence. Global Arctic Responsibility, Sustainable Tourism, Future Services, and Reachability are the key strategic choices informing our operations.

Quality management

Pursuit of quality is part of everyday life and work on campus. We as a university community are working towards shared goals and make efforts to ensure continued development of our operations.

Equality and non-discrimination

We are committed to pursuing equality and non-discrimination and will not tolerate discrimination in any form. Our adherence to these principles is monitored by the University's Equality Committee, which also engages in other kinds of equality and non-discrimination work in the University Community.

Sustainable development

We strive to operate in an environmentally sound manner and our aim is to be carbon neutral by 2030. We are working towards ecological sustainability and make every effort to reduce our environmental impact.

Data protection

We adhere to data protection requirements throughout our operations. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our students, staff and clients when processing their personal data.