Nordland Research Institute's Research Professor Grete K. Hovelsrud has faced extraordinary challenges and unprecedented events during her tenure as president of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA).
NAISA hosts an annual meeting that addresses Indigenous issues. This year, the conference took place for the first time in Europe and Bodø. The Nordland Research Institute and Nord University hosted this year's NAISA meeting between June 6 and 8, 2024.
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.
Close to 40 scientists from Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, Greenland and Canada met in Bodø for the third annual FACE-IT project meeting and general assembly.