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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.
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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 Management in Greenland
Research project aimed at strengthening the management practice in Greenland, by developing empirical descriptions that analytically come close to the collective practices leaders are involved in.
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
QIMMEQ is a research project about the sled dog culture and the origin and genetic history of the sled dog.
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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Read about being a guest student at Ilisimatusarfik.

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Profile magazine Shaping the Arctic

Welcome to Ilisimatusarfik’s profile magazine Shaping the Arctic.

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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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Public lecture: The US Navy's visit to West Greenland in 1925

11.12.2019
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PhD course: Scientific competencies & Arctic research

09.03.2020 - 13.03.2020
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Shaping the Arctic (December)

Welcome to this year's last edition of our newsletter Shaping the Arctic

Shaping the Arctic
December 2019

02.12.2019
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Another great year has soon passed - and on behalf of Ilisimatusarfik, I would like to thank all students, staff and business partners for a good cooperation in 2019

Merry Christmas
& Happy New Year

02.12.2019
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New book: "Collaboration, Dialogue & Trust"

On 21 November 2019, Ilisimatusarfik published a new book titled: "Collaboration, Dialogue & Trust" by Tina Enghoff and Peter Berliner

02.12.2019
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Five million for new research project

Ilisimatusarfik has been awarded five million for a new research project on sustainable development of coastal communities

02.12.2019
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Teacher students work with 'genuine issues'

Teacher students at the Institute of Learning have called for challenges and issues from the country's primary schools - and several primary schools have sent our students genuine issues

02.12.2019
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'Education caravan'

Again this year, Ilisimatusarfik participated in the traditional 'Education caravan' around Greenland - and you could visit our booth and talk with our students and staff

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being a guest student

02.12.2019
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Application to Ilisimatusarfik

Deadline for applying for education in Greenland is 01 March 2020

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being a guest student

02.12.2019
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02.12.2019
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You can buy many of our publications and much of our merchandise online in our webshop

02.12.2019
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Unique sled dogs followed the Thule culture's Inuit from Siberia to Greenland

The Qimmeq project has contributed to a new study showing that Inuit brought their own dogs all the way from Siberia across Alaska and to Greenland. The results are published today in the prestigious English journal "Proceedings of the Royal Society B"

Press release about
the Qimmeq project

27.11.2019
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Trine Bramsen welcomes new strategic partnership between Royal Danish Defence College and University of Greenland

Dean at the Royal Danish Defence College, Peter Dahl Thruelsen, and rector at University of Greenland, Gitte Adler Reimer, have signed a strategic cooperation agreement on more research and education on Arctic security policy

27.11.2019
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