WELCOME TO ARCI FINAL CONFERENCE TO OULU
November 16th and 17th 2023
Understanding Interactions in the Arctic – ArcI Final Conference is an international, two-day conference organized jointly by the ArcI research community at the University of Oulu. The conference will focus on the integrated approach to better understand complex Arctic systems and their interactions and highlight the science collaboration in a sustainable future of the northern and Arctic regions.
Understanding Interactions in the Arctic
Global environmental changes, globalization, digitalization, demographic changes, migration, and urbanization influence the development in the Arctic. These megatrends lead to challenges and threats but also provide opportunities for people living in these regions.
Arctic Interactions (ArcI) – Coupling of Nature and Human Responses to Understand and Mitigate Global Change’ is one of the University of Oulu´s interdisciplinary research profile themes. The objective is to integrate, strengthen and expand Arctic research at the University of Oulu. ArcI measures have built excellence through tenure track and postdoc programmes, nurturing researchers’ international networking, and providing mobility. Likewise, the High-Risk High Reward and the Advanced Collaboration programmes created new initiatives as well as internal, national, and international cooperation.
The ArcI Final conference will host a science track of sessions on both conference days, November 16th and 17th 2023. The main structure of the sessions is based on three ArcI themes: Global change & northern environments (ArcI 1), Human-environmental relationship (ArcI 2), and Sustainable systems, resource use, and development (ArcI 3) in the Arctic. The presenters of the sessions are invited through an open Call for Papers that will be opened in May 2023. We welcome proposals from both experienced academics and early career scholars.
Arctic Development in the Face of Global Megatrends
Global environmental changes, globalization, digitalization, demographic changes, migration, and urbanization influence the development in the Arctic. These mega trends lead to challenges and threats but also provide opportunities for people living in these regions. Excellence in Arctic research and education is built on an international community of diverse, engaged researchers and teams capable of working together with a multiplicity of methods and a variety of data on various Arctic locations.
Arctic Interactions (ArcI) – Coupling of Nature and Human Responses to Understand and Mitigate Global Change’ is one of the University of Oulu´s interdisciplinary research profile themes. The objective is to integrate, strengthen and expand Arctic research at the University of Oulu. ArcI measures have built excellence through tenure track and postdoc programmes, nurturing researchers’ international networking, and providing mobility. Likewise, the High-Risk High Reward and the Advanced Collaboration programmes created new initiatives as well as internal, national, and international cooperation. An increasing number of the University of Oulu’s researchers are now focusing on ArcI research questions and an integrated approach.
The ArcI Final conference will host a science track of sessions on both conference days, November 16th and 17th 2023. The main structure of the sessions is based on three ArcI themes: Global change & northern environments (ArcI 1), Human-environmental relationship (ArcI 2), and Sustainable systems, resource use, and development (ArcI 3) in the Arctic. The presenters of the sessions are invited through an open Call for Papers that will be opened in May 2023. We welcome proposals from both experienced academics and early career scholars.
Conference Venue
The Conference will take place in the beautiful surroundings of the City of Oulu’s green heart Hupisaaret. The venue is the Hotel LASARETTI, and we will visit the LUMO light festival which is a remarkable art performance in the darkness of northern autumn time.
Contact information
Conference Agency Konffa Oy Ltd
arci@konffa.fi
+ 358 (0)10 2926 500
