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  • Grete Hovelsrud

    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).

  • Gran i Nordland. Foto: Thoralf Fagertun

    Can the Nordic spruce forest be utilized in new, sustainable products? The DelWaWood project aims to find out.

  •  Lavvu (a traditional Sámi tent)

    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.

  • Træna islands, Norway, Photo by: Terje Rakke (Nordic Life) www.nordnorge.com

    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).

  • Arctic Congress Bodø 2024 logo

    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.

  • Kai Bischof, professor of Marine Botany at the University of Bremen, Germany, and scientific coordinator of the project and NRI’s Research Professor Grete Hovelsrud at the FACE-IT annual meeting in Bodø.

    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.