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Activities in 2025

  • Arctic Emergency Management Conference, 18 -20March 2025, featured over 55 plenary, keynote and thematic sessions: 
    • Now the Conference Report is out and you can read more here. 
    • This is one of the first international conferences dedicated to a holistic view of Arctic emergency management. The conference will provide a platform for discussions, information exchange and advancing work on emergency management in the Arctic. It will highlight the importance and interconnectedness of different aspects of emergency prevention, preparedness and response in the Arctic.
    • The committee rewied poster and oral presentations at the Arctic Emergency Management Conference. The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Safety and Security contributed as members of scientific sub-committee to review and select the abstracts for oral and poster presentations. The sub-committee included experts from University College Copenhagen, Memorial University Newfoundland, University of Iceland, World Maritime University, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, and Nord university. Nord university has a liaisoning role in Arctic Council’s EPPR Working Group, as a lead of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Safety and Security, and also took part in the conference programme committee.
    • Oral presentations were on the topics of search and rescue, health preparedness, wildland fires, marine environmental response, radiological and nuclear preparedness, and community preparedness.
    • Poster session organized by Nord University, Center for Crisis Management and Collaboration – Nordlab, which introduced 25 posters and 15 booths showcasing key research on and innovations in emergency management in the Arctic and beyond. The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Safety and Security contributed as members of scientific sub-committee to review and select the abstracts for oral and poster presentations. 
    • Read more here. 
  • Study visit discussing the Student Barents Rescue Exercise: Wildland Fires 
    • In June 2025, several members of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Safety and Security visited Mid-Sweden University’s Risk and Crisis Research Simulation Lab in Östersund as part of the UArctic project “Student Barents Rescue Exercise: Wildland Fires”. 
    • Poster Student Barents Rescue Exercise: Wildland Fires, presented at the Arctic Emergency Managament Conference.
    • Read more here.
  • ATOMEX
    • ATOMEX Tabletop exercise - April 2025: The exercise is developed under the project ATOMEX "Collaboration Complexity in Nuclear Emergency Preparedness in the Maritime Arctic". Purpose of the exercise is to assess risks and uncertainties related to preparedness and collaboration in radiological or nuclear maritime SAR operation by using Inclus survey tool.
    • ATOMEX Simulation exercise - April 2025: The exercise is developed under the project ATOMEX "Collaboration Complexity in Nuclear Emergency Preparedness in the Maritime Arctic". Purpose of the exercise is by simulating a complex, dynamic radiological or nuclear maritime SAR operation, to test the readiness and collaborative capabilities of the involved actors.
    • Poster presentation at the Arctic Emergency Management Conference.
  • Presentation and organizing visit from Interreg NPA 25th anniversary conference, October 2025
  • Session at the Arctic Circle conference, October 2025
    • “Arctic Emergency Management: Insights for Moving Forward” session.The panel among other issues discussed the role of Nord university and UArctic, and what benefits did we see in this partnership. How the academia was engaged throughout the conference with the lead of Nord University/UArctic.
  • Crisis Leadership in the Arctic Response (CLEAR) Workshop, November 2025

    • Representatives from Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark gathered in Copenhagen for the first meeting in the CLEAR network. Crisis Leadership in the Arctic Response or CLEAR aims to further develop the thematic network on Arctic Safety and Security (TNASS) by pursuing crisis leadership training for decision-makers in the Arctic through simulations and exercises. The activities will gather state-of-the-art training professionals, researchers and academics in crisis leadership, management and governance in the Nordics and establish a strong network to share knowledge, best practices and research on simulation-based crisis management training. At the first meeting the rest of the activities was coordinated and it has set out to engage with in the next two years and discuss how they were to achieve the overall objectives of CLEAR.
      Read more here.