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15.3.2018 13:53
Nature Photographs of the Year 2017 are on display in spring exhibition in Arktikum Science Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland.
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25.1.2018 12:20
The new three-year research project will analyze the attractiveness of Arctic industrial cities in Finland and Russia as places to live and work. The project focuses especially on the determinants of youth wellbeing. The Finnish part of the project is hosted by the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland and funded by the Academy of Finland.
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22.8.2017 9:43
An international meeting of specialists in Sámi museums called Indigeneity in the Museum will be held at the Sámi Museum Siida from 23 to 25 August 2017.
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29.5.2017 21:34
Nature-based tourism is experiencing a boom as the wilderness in Northern Scandinavia attracts travellers from ever-farther away. Last year marked the seventh successive year of growth in Finnish Lapland. The demand for accommodation in the region is high during the peak seasons of winter, and resorts attempt to meet the need by building increasingly compact servicescapes. In her recently completed thesis, Marja Uusitalo, MSc (Agr. and For.), shows that tourists would like to experience closeness to nature even in the built-up environments of resort areas.
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21.3.2017 15:10
University of Lapland’s Environmental Programme has been published. Released programme includes goals and actions for the improvement of environmental issues in our main campus for the years 2017-2019. Aim is to decrease the noticed environmental impacts and increase environmentally friendly activity without compromising work or study conditions.
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2.12.2016 14:00
Lars Levi Laestadius (1800–1861) is known as one of the most influential Swedish pietistic Lutheran revivalists, a multidisciplinary scientist, and founder of Laestadian movements in northern Scandinavia. His religious and scientific work has had a significant impact on the spiritual and cultural life of northern Scandinavia, but up to this date his thinking, adhering to anthropology and the philosophy of religion, has not been studied at the doctoral level in the field of philosophy. M.Soc.Sc. Kosti Joensuu’s dissertation reveals new information about Laestadius, as a philosophical thinker.
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30.5.2016 8:00
Get inspired by Inuit ice cream, be surprised of fat percentage of caribou meat and be startled by the smell of dried fish. Welcome to enjoy some Arctic aromas in Nam nam, the new temporary exhibition of the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland.
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