The successful kick-off of the Nordforsk funded CLINF-Green project
The Nordic Council of Ministers funding body Nordforsk funded in 2016 four Nordic Center of Excellences on the theme Sustainable Development in the North. CLINF - an Umeå University based international collaboration, clinf.org, reported results on the transition of infectious diseases in the North in March 2022. This has been followed by a smaller grant at first aiming to deepen collaborations with the Russian colleagues but due to political reasons changed to collaboration with partners in Greenland as well as from other Nordic countries, CLINF-Green.
The overall CLINF objective of contributing to the international harmonisation of protocols for surveillance of human and animal health will be pursued also in the CLINF-Green context, by terms of global health-related risk and crisis management. The overall aim of the CLINF-Green pedagogical effort is to foster a new generation of scholars into the multidisciplinary complexity of the OneHealth concept. During rapidly changing northern environments, this action is crucial for the future biosecurity of the North. CLINF-Green therefore intends to expand the existing CLINF network of young researchers with new partner institutions across Greenland, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, including the relatively well-established OneHealth centre at the Swedish University of Agriculture (SLU Future One Health | Externwebben) as well as the Thule Institute Research Centre at the University of Oulu, Finland.