- This will be spectacular, says Professor Grete Hovelsrud, IASSA president and Steering Committee Chair for Arctic Congress Bodø 2024.

Up to 1,500 international participants gather for what will be the year's major research event in the Arctic, in Bodø, Norway.

Do you work with qualitative data? Interview, fieldwork or document analysis? Have you ever sat there with several hundred pages of transcripts and wondered what to do? How do you go about analyzing all this? You are not alone.

Within a few years, Svalbard went from being a society based on coal production to giving tourism, education and research the main roles. Can the island in the north inspire other communities to phase out carbon-intensive power production?

When Nhien Nguyen joined Nordland Research Institute in 2017, the institute did not have a single EU project. When she now cleans her desk, the number is ten.

Since the EmpowerUs project started in October 2022, Norwegian partners Nordland Research Institute (Norway Academic Lead) and Kunnskapsparken Helgeland (Norway Local Host) have been busy carrying out fieldwork and engaging with local stakeholders in Træna, the Norwegian Transition Coastal Lab (TCL).

The Arctic Congress Bodø 2024 will gather over a thousand participants in Bodø, Norway, from 29 May to 3 June 2024. The local planning committee is working on programming the conference to the last detail.