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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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Centres Ilisimatusarfik's Centre for Arctic Welfare
Ilisimatusarfik's Centre for Arctic Welfare works with contemporary and historical welfare issues.
Centres Centre for Children, Youth & Family Research
Centre for Children, Youth & Family Research - Ilisimatusarfik.
Centres Centre for Pedagogical Innovation
Please refer to the Greenlandic or Danish site.
Centres Centre for Language Research
Collecting language research in general in cooperation with Greenlandic institutions as well as international institutions interested in working with languages.
Centres Greenland Center for Health Research
Greenland Center for Health Research (GCHR) at the Institute of Nursing & Health Science.
Centres Nasiffik - Centre for Foreign & Security Policy
Nasiffik - Centre for Foreign & Security Policy analyses Greenlandic foreign policy and international relations as well as geopolitical dynamics in the Arctic.
Projects ArcticChallenge
Arctic petroleum development as a challenge to societies: A comparative look at Norwegian, Greenlandic and US case sites.
Projects Arctic Living Conditions
Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA).
Projects Ageing in the Arctic
Well-being, quality of life, and health promotion among older people in Greenland.
Projects Arctic crime
Arctic crime is an interdisciplinary research group on crime in the Arctic - with a special focus on crime in Greenland and the portrayal of crime in media and fiction.
Projects Arctic Oil & Gas Research Centre
Arctic Oil & Gas Research Centre - Ilisimatusarfik.
Projects How do companies create a better working environment?
This will now be explored in a new research collaboration between Ilisimatusarfik and the University of Southern Denmark.
Projects Children of the Arctic
The overall goal of this research network is to assess and study successful practices of sustainable development concerning children in the Arctic - considering the adaptation of indigenous traditional knowledge to contemporary conditions.
Projects Sentenced
A research project on convictions to psychiatric patients and physically and mentally disabled people.
Projects Forgotten Friends
An interdisciplinary research project about the so-called 'Old Friends' in a Greenlandic context.
Projects Rock flour
Can mud benefit the Greenlandic economy and simultaneously solve global problems?
Projects Greenland-EU relations
Greenland-EU relations - Ilisimatusarfik.
Projects Mapping the media in Greenland
Mapping the media in Greenland - Ilisimatusarfik.
Projects 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.
Projects Hunting - household economic importance
The importance of hunting and small-scale fishing in Greenland.
Projects Kinguaariit Inuunerissut
Kinguaariit Inuunerissut is a new project where young and elderly people exchange knowledge and work with culture, nature, body and traditions in a 1-week camp in summer followed by activities in autumn, and a 2-day final camp in winter.
Projects Climate and Society
Climate and Society - Ilisimatusarfik.
Projects 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.
Projects MARPART
Maritime Preparedness and International Partnership in the High North.
Projects NorValue
The NorValue project investigates how people in Nordic Atlantic local communities are involved in connections and linkages crucial to their livelihoods and survival as a part of the Nordic Atlantic societies of Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands and Northern Norway.
Projects Population Dynamics
Population Dynamics in Greenland - A Multi-Component, Mixed-Methods Study of Demographic Change in the Arctic.
Projects Danish Realm research
Danish Realm research has as its focal point a research project entitled: "What can we all learn from Greenland and the Faroe Islands in the social and pedagogical field?" and will - in addition to articles and communication - also result in a textbook in all three languages for use in practice and in higher education.
Projects 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.
Projects 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.
Projects Social policy - Massakkut
Social policy is discussed through the production of popular articles, teaching materials and research articles.
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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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Profile magazine Shaping the Arctic

Welcome to Ilisimatusarfik’s profile magazine Shaping the Arctic.

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Happening at Ilisimatusarfik?
Event
Inaugural lecture

With the lecture Data Driven Diabetes Care - what have we learned and where are we going? Michael Lynge Pedersen marks his appointment as Professor at the Institute of Health & Nature

Live-streaming on
our Facebook page

29.09.2022
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Ilisimatusarfik's annual celebration

On 30 September, Ilisimatusarfik hosts its traditional Annual Celebration of the university

30.09.2022
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NUNAMED 2022

NUNAMED is for all researchers and health care persons with an active interest in Greenlandic health research and takes place in Nuuk on September 30 - October 02, 2022

Live-streaming on
our Facebook page

30.09.2022 - 02.10.2022
Event
Info meeting about PhD Cup Paasisavut

On the 4th of October 2022, at 10.00 am Greenlandic time, Arctic Hub and Ilisimatusarfik host a digital info meeting about the Greenlandic PhD competition Paasisavut

04.10.2022
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Lecture with Lise Hounsgaard

We wish to mark that professor Lise Hounsgaard retires from the Institute of Health & Nature

04.10.2022
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Literature evening with Kim Leine

04.10.2022
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Screen production in the Arctic: Location, entanglements and ultrasmall screen industries

Department of Language, Literature & Media invites to a public lecture with PhD Fellow Anders Grønlund titled: "Screen Production in the Arctic: Location, entanglements and ultrasmall screen industries"

05.10.2022
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Seminar on the occasion of KNR-TV's 40th anniversary

On 1 November 2022, it is 40 years since KNR-TV first transmitted a TV programme

31.10.2022
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Career Fair 2022

Ilisimatusarfik has the pleasure of inviting you to the Career Fair 2022 at Ilisimatusarfik

Registration deadline:
21 October 2022

07.11.2022 - 25.11.2022
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The multilingual & multidialectal Greenland - implementation of the language law in the different institutions in Greenland

Centre for Language Research at Ilisimatusarfik invites to a free seminar

17.11.2022 - 18.11.2022
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Scientists to compete in communicating their research to the public

A major new competition puts research conducted in Greenland center stage as researchers compete to make their work come alive for everyone to see

Application deadline:
01 December 2022

01.03.2023
News
The Translation & Interpreting programme celebrates its 10th anniversary

In 2012, the first students of the newly created bachelor's programme in Translation & Interpreting were welcomed at Ilisimatusarfik - this also means that the programme can now celebrate its 10th anniversary

01.10.2022
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Watch & Listen

On our website you can always listen to the podcast series "Watch & Listen", where our researchers take you behind the curtain and right into their research projects

01.09.2022
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Valuable Knowledge

Remember, on our website you can also always listen to the podcast series "Valuable Knowledge", where some of our graduates talk about their theses (in Greenlandic)

01.09.2022
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Social science practice - Arctic perspectives

This methodology book is the first to focus on social science practices in the Arctic and the Western North

Buy the book
in our webshop

01.09.2022
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