Past Activities

  • Coordinated attendance at the 21st April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, hosted by National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) with the support of the World Bank. Professor Aleskerov, HSE and TNAES, will organize a special track of sessions on Arctic issues as he did in 2018 and 2019. To take place in Moscow early April 2020.
  • Student and faculty mobility between HSE and UiT: Society and Advanced Technology in the Arctic – last year of a 3 year PhD field course, financially supported by DIKU. To take place in Moscow early April 2020.
  • Extension of partners – first priority on bringing in an institution from Asia (North America, Euope and Russia already represented). Planned visit Hokkaido University January 2020. Workshop planned in Tromsø in early June 2020 with particants from Arctic Five universities and beyond.
  • Continued efforts to secure long term funding of research projects, preferably involving all partner institutions.
  • Student and faculty mobility between HSE and UiT: Society and Advanced Technology in the Arctic – a 3 year PhD field course, financial support from SIU/DIKU. First year 2018 in Harstad and Tromsø, second year 2019 at Svalbard.
  • Coordinated attendance (financially supported by UiT) at the Remote Regions and Northern Development Sessions organized by American TNAES partners at UAA as part of the Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association. Pasadena in February 2018 and Napa in February 2019
  • Coordinated attendance (financially supported by UiT) at The April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, hosted by National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) with the support of the World Bank. Professor Aleskerov, HSE and TNAES, organizes a special track of sessions on Arctic issues. The 19th conference in 2018 and the 20th in 2019.
  • Student and faculty mobility between UAA and UiT (HNPla-2014/10050 - Conflict and cooperation in the High North – an experimental approach, financial support from SIU)
  • Coordinated attendance (financially supported by UiT) at ICASS IX Umea June 2017, organizing a session on Experimental Approaches to Human Behavior (Session 17.20)
  • Student and faculty mobility between HSE and UiT: HNPla-2016/10109 - High North Economics: Learning how economists work and think in Russia and Norway using theoretical models and laboratory experiments, financial support from SIU;
  • TNAES meetings with Canadian TNAES partners at Université Laval in Ville de Quebec in November 2017, financial support from UiT