First interdisciplinary Permafrost in Arctic Societies course started in Sisimiut, Greenland

After almost two years of planning, the Permafrost in Arctic Societies interdisciplinary master course was finally kicked-off Wednesday 15 April, as 19 engineering and natural science students from Greenland, Denmark, Norway, Canada, Germany, China, US, Austria, Ireland, Belgium and Spain started a 6 weeks course at the Arctic DTU campus in Sisimiut.

Students received key knowledge of permafrost and the skills needed to design tailored solutions for the sustainable development of  Arctic societies focusing on infrastructure and using an innovative and holistic approach that integrates natural sciences, social sciences and engineering.

The course has been developed by the network project Developing interdisciplinary permafrost higher education in collaboration with a Greenlandic community (EduPermaGR) funded by the UArctic. It is led by the Danish Technical University, DTU. Seven researchers from the partner universities of Ålborg, Århus, Oslo, Umeå and the Norwegian Science and Technical University  will be teaching and supervising projects throughout the course.

As far as we know, our course is the very first interdisciplinary master course on permafrost!