2.11.2012 13:49
The River Lights fire sculpture event focuses this year on micro world of the river environment: on cellular and element structure, microfauna and insects. The event is held on November 9, at 7 pm, aside Kemijoki River on downtown.
2.11.2012 12:25
Rector Mauri Ylä-Kotola invites University staff and students for a morning coffee break to the Café Lovisa on Wednesday, November 7, at 8:30 am.
2.11.2012 9:28
The University of Lapland will start to use a plagiarism detection system in spring 2013.
26.10.2012 12:41
The Arctic Centre has received Kolarctic ENPI funding to start a two-year project to develop an international academic publication, the Barents Journal. The idea of the Barents Journal is to provide scientific knowledge and latest research news related to developmental processes within the Barents Region as well as socio-economic, political, environmental developments, and thus providing information outside and within the programme area.
26.10.2012 12:14
The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, has been granted 25 000 euros by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Unit for Human Rights Policy, to study the impact of climate change on human rights, especially on vulnerable groups. A particular focus will be placed on indigenous peoples and women, who worldwide often bear a heavy burden in coping with the effects of climate change.
25.10.2012 10:36
The Arctic Centre has been awarded Tekes (the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation) funding to start a two-year strategic research project in the Arctic region. The project strengthens Finland’s role as an international expert in the environmental impact assessment know-how in the Arctic and supports Finnish companies in their environmental impact assessment (EIA) work in Lapland and Arctic Russia.
24.10.2012 10:18
Rovaniemi Regional Development Agency Ltd organizes recruitment event for Russian speaking jobseekers on Wednesday, October 31, from 8 am to 12 (noon) at Hotel Santa Claus.
17.10.2012 9:38
Estonia’s Minister of Education and Research Jaak Aaviksoo will be lecturing at the University of Lapland on Wednesday 24 October from 11.00 to 12.00 in lecture room 6. Aaviksoo’s lecture focuses on the status of small countries in a globalizing world.
15.10.2012 13:57
The web sites of the higher education institutions in Lapland will be out of service on October 16 (e.g. ulapland.fi, arcticentre.org, sosnet.fi, barentsinfo.org, luc.fi, ramk.fi, lao.fi, kkylappia.fi, tokem.fi, lappia.fi).
9.10.2012 17:10
One of the most important theorists in international politics, Professor Friedrich Kratochwil will give a keynote lecture at the international workshop at the University of Lapland, on Friday, October 12.
4.10.2012 15:00
Rector Mauri Ylä-Kotola invites University staff and students for a morning coffee break to the Café Lovisa on Thursday, October 11, at 8:30 am. The purpose of the session is to discuss topical issues at the University. The language of the session is Finnish.
25.9.2012 16:30
The University of Lapland hosts the Sino-Finnish international seminar on comparative law on September 26–28. The seminar brings together law professors from China and Finland to discuss current issues in the field of law.
24.9.2012 12:43
Professor Sandra Harding will visit Arctic Centre and University of Lapland on 1-5 October. During her visit, professor Harding will give five visitor lectures on topics such as strong objectivity, standpoint methodologies and postcolonial and feminist science and technology studies. Also a one-day workshop about the theme “Indigenous Knowledge Systems” will be arranged at Arctic Centre.
10.9.2012 16:12
The programme includes six languages: Chinese, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Scandinavian languages.
10.9.2012 15:52
Ciudades is a work by Swiss photographer Carlos Crespo, begun in 1994, during his training to become a professional photographer. It is a portrait of cities around the world during the summertime.
10.9.2012 11:00
Emilie Beaudon’s doctoral research closes a geographical gap in the current knowledge of the European Arctic climate variability by investigating the chemistry of the snow and new ice cores extracted from Svalbard ice caps. This work provides new essential keys for future ice core based environmental reconstructions and climate model projections for the Barents region.
7.9.2012 10:29
Professor Klaus Frantz from the Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Austria, will give two lectures at the University of Lapland on September 13 and 17. Professor Frantz has studied especially the social, economical and political status of the Northern American Indians.
6.9.2012 9:25
Researchers and research teams at the University of Lapland are asked to apply for funding to finalize their applications regarding research projects that support the strategic profile of the University. The maximum amount is 6,000 euros.
3.9.2012 10:55
According to the doctoral thesis by LLM Waliul Hasanat, the local and regional governments should be more integrated into the work of the Arctic Council. Furthermore, it will be essential to find synergies between all northern cooperation forms.
3.9.2012 9:11
The Fifth Polar Law Symposium will take place in Arctic Centre on 6–8 September 2012. The Symposium brings together internationally renowned scholars, partaking in both Antarctic and Arctic research, from different parts of the globe.
23.8.2012 9:12
The first joint multidisciplinary summer school by Finnish-Russian cross border university networks will collect approximately a hundred students and researchers at the University of Lapland at the end of August.
14.8.2012 15:55
New research shows that greenhouse gas emissions from the developed world have dominated the impacts of climate change. Furthermore the developed world carbon dioxide reduction promises would achieve just 1/3 of any warming slowdown, even though they are responsible for more than 2/3 of climate change before 2005.
7.8.2012 0:00
The Barents International Political Economy (BIPE) researcher network has received funding to start a two-year joint research project in the Barents region. The aim of the new project is to study the role of states in advancing sustainable development focusing on local communities perspectives in different parts of the Barents region.
3.8.2012 12:30
The Academy of Finland's September 2012 call for applications is available online (in English, Finnish and Swedish). The call opens on Monday, 3 September and closes on Wednesday, 26 September. The deadlines for international calls included in the September 2012 call may differ from the Academy’s main deadlines. Please check the exact deadlines in the call for applications.
19.6.2012 10:00
According to the doctoral thesis by Elizabeth E. Alssen, Lic Ed, good results can be obtained in learning domain-specific English at universities by using a learning method which encourages students to design and produce instructional materials.
11.6.2012 10:39
Revivers of the Sámi language living without an official Sámi status are concerned about the future of the language and committed to promote it, says Erika Sarivaara in her dissertation. The study opens up a new perspective on the discourse on Sámi identity and its boundaries.
4.6.2012 11:27
In just a few decades, shrubs in the Arctic tundra have turned into trees as a result of climate warming, creating patches of forest which, if replicated across the circumpolar North, would significantly accelerate global warming.
29.5.2012 15:55
The art museum professionals, art historians and cultural organizations in the Barents region will establish a cooperation network within an international project led by the Faculty of Art and Design. The network will focus especially on visual arts and art history.
28.5.2012 16:16
The fourth conferment of the University of Lapland will take place on 31 May – 2 June 2012. Traditionally, the conferment is a three-day event where masters’, doctors’, and honorary doctors’ degrees will be conferred.
22.5.2012 9:35
Many international exchange students take home special memories from their time at the University of Lapland. Snow sculpting, visiting Santa’s Village, seeing the northern lights – these are all unique opportunities exchange students enjoy while living and studying in Rovaniemi that result in endless amounts of shared photos with friends and family. But Canadian exchange student Paul Menard decided to take home a very extraordinary, and permanent, memory in the form of a tattoo of the university logo.