MASU students receive BRIDGE project certificates

• 22.06.2021
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The fourth session of «BRIDGE: Barents Region Initiative for Developing Growth and Employability» that was organized at UiT — the Arctic University of Norway came to its conclusion. Students were awarded certificates proving that they had successfully presented their business-cases and finished the session.

Ivan Morgun (a third-year student, tourism major), Valeria Chadrantseva (a second-year student, economics major), Ksenia Ovcharenko (a first-year student, speech therapy major) spent a semester working side by side with their colleagues from Russia, Norway and Finland and designed strategies to promote tourism in Northern Norway.

Valeria Chadrantseva won a scholarship of Barents+ programme to do an internship in Norway in autumn 2021. Hence, in the final project session Valeria will represent a Norwegian university.

CBC Kolarctic 2014−2020 (Kolarctic Cross-Border Cooperation program) is a financial tool to support cooperation between the northern regions of Finland, Sweden, Norway and North-West Russia.

Program's tasks:

• Supporting economical and social development in regions on both sides of the common border;
• Addressing common challenges in the field of environmental protection, public health and safety;
• Creating better conditions and assumption for increasing the mobility of people, goods and capital.

Details of the project can be found here and pages on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.