The primary objective of the EduSmart project is to enhance our international education and research in the High North by incorporating knowledge of smart city governance and performance management. In this regard, we aim to increase the extent and enhance the quality and relevance of our scientific cooperation with our international strategic partners.
The idea behind the EduSmart project lies under the funded research project “SMARTNORTH: Sustainable development and management by participatory governance practices in the High NORTH”. The project was funded by the Research Council of Norway. In this project, the research group produced a knowledge base of participatory governance initiatives under the smart city agenda and their potential effects on the sustainable development of High North communities.
The EduSmart will utilize the knowledge developed in the SMARTNORTH project to prepare future public managers, politicians, citizens, entrepreneurs, activists, consultants, managers and directors.
Among the activities of the EduSmart project are three workshops, two joint master’s courses, and two joint PhD courses as well as related student and staff mobility.
The workshops will be devoted to the following themes:
- Workshop 1 “Education and Competence Building for Smart City Governance and Performance Management in the High North”
- Workshop 2 “Practitioners’ Perspective on Competence Building of Smart City Governance and Performance Management in the High North”
- Workshop 3 “Furthering Research and Education Collaboration on Smart Governance and Performance Management in the High North”
The joint courses include the following:
- Master Course “Smart Specialization and Management”
- PhD course “Contemporary Strands of Institutional Theory”
- PhD Course “Governance in the High North: implications for Arctic private and public sector”
- Master Course “International governance and business in the High North”
Financing
The project is financed by the Research Council of Norway under the INPART programme. The total budget for the project is NOK 6,216,000
Project period
The project runs over the period of 2021-2024.
The project is operationally executed and managed by the High North Center of Business and Governance at Nord University Business School.
- Evgenii Aleksandrov (Nord University Business School), the project manager
- Husanboy Ahunov (Nord University Business School), the project assistant
- Elena Dybtsyna (Nord University Business School), the key project group
- Anatoli Bourmistrov (Nord University Business School), the key project group
- Igor Khodachek (Nord University Business School), the key project group
- Xin Zhang (East China Normal University), the key project group
- Robert McMahon (University of Alberta), the key project group
- Sari Hirvonen-Kantola (University of Oulu), the key project group
- Tom Karlsson (University of Gothenburg), the key project group
- David Chapman (Luleå University of Technology), the key project group
- Diane Hirshberg (University of Alaska Anchorage), the key project group
- Nadezda Nazarova (Nord University Business School), the project participant
- Heather Hudson (University of Alaska Anchorage), the project participant
- Alexandra Middleton (University of Oulu), the project participant
- Sara Brorström (University of Gothenburg), the project participant
- Viktoria Hermann (The Arctic Institute), the reference group researcher
- Giuseppe Grossi (Nord University Business School), the reference group researcher
- Roman Vakulchuk (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, NUPI), the reference group researcher
- The representatives of local and regional authorities (Bodø Municipality, Norway; Nordland County, Norway)
- High North News (media)
The “Bermuda triangle” of academic writing.
Iermolenko, Olga; Aleksandrov, Evgenii; Nazarova, Nadezda; Bourmistrov, Anatoli. 2021, The International Journal of Management Education. NORD, NHH.Applying Smart Frameworks to Arctic Cities.
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Aleksandrov, Evgenii; Dybtsyna, Elena; Nazarova, Nadezda; Khodachek, Igor; Routledge 2022 (9781003246015), p. 131-146 .Rankings for smart city dialogue? Opening up a critical scrutiny
Aleksandrov, Evgenii; Dybtsyna, Elena; Grossi, Giuseppe; Bourmistrov, Anatoli ; Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management 2022 (1096-3367).Smartocracy: Context entanglement of the smart city idea and bureaucracy in Russia.
Khodachek, Igor Aleksandrovich; Aleksandrov, Evgenii; Nazarova, Nadezda; Grossi, Giuseppe; Bourmistrov, Anatoli ; Organization Studies 2022 (0170-8406).
Smart & Livable Cities: Governance, Management, Leadership.
Pogner, Karl-Heinz; Dybtsyna, Elena; Pässilä, Anne ; Nordic Academy of Management 2022 2022
