Project summary
The project focuses on the handling of the institutional and practical challenges in such international education cooperation, the learning process in this global setting as well as how to build analytical and research competencies of master students from Norway, China, Canada, and the US.
The project also aims to enhance the research dimension of the existing educational cooperation between partner institutions regarding the joint preparation and supervision of master thesis in international governance and business.
During the master thesis research process, the students will develop new knowledge on opportunities and challenges in the context of global business and governance with relevance to sustainable development, energy transition, and international relations.
The strengthened cooperation between the institutions in the project period will contribute to a solid basis for further collaboration in the field of education and research. This secures that new insights and skills are being developed within global management, international governance and business, sustainability and the development of regional and local solutions to global problems and challenges.
This is central to change and development within sustainable blue and green value creation, and is relevant actors across sectors, cultures, and countries. The dissemination of the research findings will be communicated to relevant users through a diversity of mediums, by published master theses, young researchers series, publications in the professional media, and research.
- Enhance quality and relevance of the partnership program
- Student and staff mobility between Norway and partner universities
- Workshops for teachers and students
- Development of international supervisors board
- Joint master thesis supervision
- Integration of research and education activities/involve students in research projects
- Dissemination via media and articles
- High North Center at Nord University Business School (head of project)
- East China Normal University
- University of Alaska, Anchorage
- University of Saskatchewan
- University of California, Berkeley
- The Norwegian Chinese Chamber of Commerce
- The Norwegian Barents Secretariat
- The Arctic Institute (US)
- Bodø municipality
- Nordland Regional Administration
