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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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Sharing among hunter-gatherers and in the global sharing economy

The Department of Social and Cultural History invites for a public lecture: "Sharing among African hunter-gatherers and in the global sharing economy"

13.11.2019
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Conference: Visibility and communities - on visual methods in the strengthening of child, adolescent and family research in Greenland & the Arctic

21.11.2019 - 22.11.2019
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Greenland in German National Socialist Travel Literature

The Department of Cultural & Social History invites to a public lecture: "Representations of Greenlanders in German National Socialist Travel Literature"

27.11.2019
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PhD course: Quantitative method

Quantitative method: considerations related to choice of quantitative method and consequences of choice - including data collection and analysis

27.11.2019 - 29.11.2019
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Greenland Science Week

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

02.12.2019 - 05.12.2019
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PhD course: Scientific competencies & Arctic research

09.03.2020 - 13.03.2020
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Arctic Circle Assembly

Again this year, Ilisimatusarfik participated in the Arctic Circle Assembly in Iceland during 10 - 12 October

Ilisimatusarfik went to
Arctic Circle Assembly

01.11.2019
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Visit at University of Akureyri

In the days just before the Arctic Circle Assembly, we visited University of Akureyri in Iceland

01.11.2019
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Inuit Studies Conference

Researchers from Ilisimatusarfik also did various presentations during this year's Inuit Studies Conference

Ilisimatusarfik went to
Inuit Studies Conference

01.11.2019
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Successful criminology conference

During 08 - 10 October, Ilisimatusarfik hosted a conference titled Crime, punishment, social marginalization and rehabilitation in small societies

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Annemette Nyborg Lauritsen

01.11.2019
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researchers' publications

01.11.2019
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01.11.2019
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Shaping the Arctic (November)

Welcome to this November edition of our newsletter Shaping the Arctic

Shaping the Arctic
November 2019

01.11.2019
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