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Ilisimatusarfik - Shaping the Arctic

Ilisimatusarfik is an Arctic university that creates knowledge and innovation in a region developing rapidly. Broadly, deeply and across: Through research, education and cooperation - Ilisimatusarfik is Shaping the Arctic.

International Guest students at Ilisimatusarfik
Here you can read information about how to become a guest student at Ilisimatusarfik.

International Cooperation & agreements
Read about Ilisimatusarfik's international cooperation and agreements.

International PhD school
Since 2001, Ilisimatusarfik has had the possibility to offer the 3 year PhD programme.

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Present research Greenland Science Week
Greenland Science Week – a Greenlandic Arctic Science conference surrounded by research-related workshops and public outreach.

Present research Greenland Perspective
Greenland has been a magnet for scientists for decades. In the same period, a large part of the research done has only to a small degree benefitted Greenlandic society. Greenland Perspective changes that.

Present research Greenland Center for Health Research
Greenland Center for Health Research (GCHR) at the Institute of Nursing & Health Science.

Present research Homelessness in Nuuk
Homelessness is an increasing problem in the Arctic - and the same is the case for the capital Nuuk, where Greenland's homelessness is most apparent.

Present research Mapping the media in Greenland
Mapping the media in Greenland - Ilisimatusarfik.

Present research Centre for Children, Youth & Family Research
Centre for Children, Youth & Family Research - Ilisimatusarfik.

Present research Arctic Oil & Gas Research Centre
Arctic Oil & Gas Research Centre - Ilisimatusarfik.

Present research Qimmeq - a hunt for the soul of the Greenland sled dog
Greenland’s sled dog culture and technology are more than 4,000 years old.

Present research Social policy - Massakkut
Social policy is discussed through the production of popular articles, teaching materials and research articles.

Present research Ageing in the Arctic
Well-being, quality of life, and health promotion among older people in Greenland.

Present research ArcticChallenge
Arctic petroleum development as a challenge to societies: A comparative look at Norwegian, Greenlandic and US case sites.

Present research Rockwell Kent
The project, entitled Rockwell Kent and Early 1930s Greenland: A Comparative View of Environmental, Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Greenland, brings together an international research team with Ilisimatusarfik, Jette Rygaard, and two from the US, Denis Defibaugh and Susan Vanek.

Present research MARPART
Maritime Preparedness and International Partnership in the High North.

Present research Greenland-EU relations
Greenland-EU relations - Ilisimatusarfik.

Present research Population Dynamics
Population Dynamics in Greenland - A Multi-Component, Mixed-Methods Study of Demographic Change in the Arctic.

Present research Climate and Society
Climate and Society - Ilisimatusarfik.

Present research Hunting - household economic importance
The importance of hunting and small-scale fishing in Greenland.

Present research Arctic Living Conditions
Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA).

Present research Institute of Learning
Please refer to the Greenlandic or Danish site.

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Cooperation Cooperation & agreements
Read about Ilisimatusarfik's international cooperation and agreements.

Cooperation Greenland Perspective
Read about the collaboration between Ilisimatusarfik and the University of Copenhagen: Greenland Perspective.

Cooperation Cooperate with students
Do you have a project that you would like to conduct with our students?

Cooperation American Corner
American Corner is kindly sponsored by the Embassy of the United States of America in Denmark.

Cooperation Korea Corner
Korea Corner is kindly sponsored by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea to Denmark and Korea Foundation.

Other Conference facilities
Ilisimatusarfik offers auditorium and meeting rooms.

Other Visit us
It is always possible to visit us at Ilisimatusarfik.

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Research presentation The journal Ilisimatusaat

The journal is free and contains easy-to-read articles on some of our current research and development projects within four main areas: Culture, Society, School and Health.

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Guest students Guest students

Read about being a guest student at Ilisimatusarfik.

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Fulbright American English teacher

In 2018-2019, Ilisimatusarfik and GUX in Nuuk have a Fulbright student through the so-called ETA programme.

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You can buy books & merchandise in our webshop.

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Homelessness and housing in the urban North

Public lecture about homelessness, housing and social policy in Northern Canada and Greenland

Food, Landscape and the Future of Greenlandic Agriculture

Department of Culture & Social History invites to a public lecture with anthropologist Les Field titled: "Food, Landscape and the Future of Greenlandic Agriculture"

Greenland Science Week

The Arctic research conference, Polar Research Day, will be held in Nuuk on December 4 2019

Grant for research project

Danish Arts Foundation and the Arts Council Norway have granted funds to a research project at Ilisimatusarfik

Shaping the Arctic (April)

Welcome to this April edition of our newsletter Shaping the Arctic

Visit by the Australian Ambassador

Wednesday 13 March, the Australian Embassy in Denmark visited us at Ilisimatusarfik

World premiere of film about the threatened Greenlandic dog sled culture

The research project QIMMEQ has produced five films, each of which conveys the thoughts young as old dog sled drivers in Greenland have about the future of the dog sled culture

Reception and release

Reception and release of Ilisimatusaat - new electronic journal about research at Ilisimatusarfik

The first journalism textbook in Greenlandic has been published

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Call for papers

We welcome papers from scholars, practitioners etc. for the conference "Crime, Punishment, Social Marginalization and reintegration in Small Societies", which will take place at Ilisimatusarfik 08 - 10 October 2019

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