Rector's note on current Arctic International Cooperation

• 28.02.2022
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The Arctic is home to nearly 5 million people residing in such northern states as Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland (Denmark), the USA, Canada, and Russia. Effective and sustainable maintenance of this common home is greatly dependent on the efforts applied by the neighbors.

For us, it speaks to the fact that international cooperation in the Arctic, especially in the academic sphere, will always remain of utmost importance for the Northern communities, environment, culture, and economy despite any turbulence occurring in the global world.

After all, the etymology of the word «university» is rooted in the Medieval and Late Latin words «whole», «entire», «society». We would like to thank all our respected foreign partners for the encounters that we have had and will have on the path of making the Arctic an even better place.

We stay anytime open to the dialogue and cooperation that have always been built on the basis of mutual trust and respect.