Pågående prosjekter / Active projects
The project aims to identify and present the main challenges and opportunities for health preparedness in the Arctic, as they emerged at the Arctic Health Preparedness Conference in Oslo, 22-23 of January, 2025.
The Conference was the main delivery in the Norwegian Red Cross and the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority’s joint project on” Strengthening health preparedness in the Arctic”, a project under the Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response (EPPR) Working Group of the Arctic Council, with support from Norway and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The conference focused on organizing and planning health preparedness in the Arctic, addressing current and emerging risks, and highlighting the role of local communities and civil society in emergency response. The goal was to strengthen collaboration and establish a shared understanding of the main risks and threats to health service delivery in the Arctic.
Contact persons: Hanne Austerheim, Emmi Ikonen, Natalia Andreassen, Rune Elvegård.
Forprosjektet Research infrastructure for technology-based crisis management skal utvikle et konsept for en nasjonal forskningsinfrastruktur som støtter forskning og innovasjon innen teknologistøttet krisehåndtering. Forskningen innen dette området er i dag spredt på ulike institusjoner, med begrenset koordinering, informasjonsdeling og erfaringsutveksling. Konseptet som skal utvikles vil baseres på integrasjon og videreutvikling av eksisterende infrastruktur for forskning og beredskapsøvelser ved fagmiljø innen beredskap og krisehåndtering ved Universitetet i Agder, Universitetet i Innlandet, Nord Universitet og Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge. Infrastrukturen vil muliggjøre tverrfaglig og koordinert forskning på hvordan beredskap og krisehåndtering kan forbedres gjennom innovativ bruk av teknologi for innsamling, analyse og deling av informasjon som støtter samvirke i krisehåndtering, samt opplæring og øvelser knyttet til dette.
Eksempler på muliggjørende teknologi som kan inngå i en slik forskningsinfrastruktur er digitale kartsystemer, kunstig intelligens, utvidet virkelighet (XR), simuleringsteknologi, robotikk og droner. I tillegg til teknologisk kompetanse har også prosjektgruppen omfattende ekspertise innen krisehåndtering, tverrsektorielt samarbeid, risikoanalyse og trusselvurdering, beslutningsstøtte, cybersikkerhet og sikkerhetspsykologi.
Forskningsinfrastrukturen som skal utredes i dette prosjektet vil gjøres tilgjengelig for relevante aktører fra offentlig, privat og frivillig sektor, og vil muliggjøre forskning med stort potensial for å bidra til nasjonal samfunnssikkerhet.
Contact persons: Ensieh Roud, Emelie Johanne Johansen Wold
AREA Risk Awareness and Risk Evaluation in the Arctic
Funding: Nord University Business SchoolAbout
The AREA project's main objective is to enhance shared risk awareness and risk evaluation in the Arctic operations. The AREA project aims to understand how the experience and knowledge of the previous maritime emergencies and the Arctic risk in maritime operations can contribute to a dynamic risk awareness for supporting decision-making for safer operations in the Arctic. This is a pre-project for ATOMEX project, that got a financing through Research Council of Norway, aiming at networking and strengthening cooperation with relevant stakeholders.
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ATOMEX: Collaboration Сomplexity in Nuclear Emergency Preparedness in the Maritime Arctic
Funding: Research Council of NorwayAbout
The increased maritime transportation, flow of goods and populations changes the risk picture in the Arctic. A recent sharp increase in nuclear-powered vessels and ships transporting spent nuclear fuel and radioactive materials adds new uncertainties into risk assessments and challenges of inter-sectoral collaboration complexity in case of response to maritime radiation emergencies in the Arctic. In the research project «Collaboration Complexity in Nuclear Emergency Preparedness in the Maritime Arctic», ATOMEX, we are establishing the international academic interdisciplinary partnership between universities of three countries - Nord University, Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics & Services, supported by non-academic stakeholders — Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority and Joint Rescue Coordination Center Northern Norway. ATOMEX project builds shared knowledge on collaboration competences and risk evaluation within Arctic maritime nuclear preparedness and response operations. The project aims, through case analyses, to generate knowledge-based research on preparedness complexity in the Arctic a shared understanding of risk evaluation between communities, search and rescue and radiation safety authorities, and the maritime industry. The project focuses on exercise methods that can enhance collaboration competences to meet the challenges of emergency response complexity. The project also aims to design a new intelligent algorithm-based model to support decision making in Arctic waters, as well as interactive browser-based data visualization.
Project partners
Nord University (Coordinator) – Norway
Joint Rescue Coordination Center Norway
Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority
Laurea University of Applied Sciences - Finland
Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services - GermanyContact persons:
Andrey Kazakov (administrative coordinator), Natalia Andreassen (project leader), Rune Elvegård (WP leader, researcher), Emmi Ikonen (PhD fellow)
Funding: Nordplus Higher Education 2024
About:
5 partner Universities organized a summer course NORDPLUS Intensive Course „Security risk management” from 13 to 24 August, 2024. Turiba University in Riga hosted 28 students and 12 teachers.
Some students from MASIK master in emergency preparedness and crisis management have taken this course as an exchange course abroad.
This course was created for mixed group of security and business students, who explored security risk management process which is important part of any business or company. Innovative aspect of the course was application of ISO31000 risk management standard in security risk management. Students learned to plan and integrate security management in their organizations and in this way to ensure business continuity.
Project partners
Turiba University, Latvia (Coordinator)
Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Lithuania
Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Nord University, Norway
Contact persons:
Natalia Andreassen
Funding: University of the Arctic
About
This projects further develops the Student Barents Rescue exercise and network activities conducted by the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Safety and Security. While the Student Barents Rescue exercise is successfully running, the ever-increasing complexity in circumpolar crisis management collaboration raises the demand for updated scenario understanding on the wildland fires impact, as well as improving the quality of emergency and disaster management education in the Arctic. Students from the educational programs within emergency management at these universities participate in this annual exercise, with leadership rotating between the different actors.
The scenario of the Student Barents exercise has been connected to the wildland fire preparedness and response in the regions of northern Norway, Finland and Sweden. The Norwegian chairship of the Arctic council underlines the need for circumpolar collaboration in light of the record breaking severity and frequency of wildland fires in the Arctic. As the Arctic warms, the nature of wildland fires in the region is changing.
This project aims to strengthen the cooperation and relations between the partner universities, as well as to learn from other Arctic regions and improve overall understanding of the wildland fires emergency preparedness in the Arctic and demands for education. Further exercise development will require physical visits in order to build strong professional relationships, in particular a visit to the simulator lab of Mid Sweden University in Östersund, as well as in light of the technological and methodological progression of the exercise discussing emergency preparedness laboratories’ potential for use in the exercise.
Project partners
Nord University (coordinator)
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Mid Sweden University
Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Contact persons:
Natalia Andreassen, Emelie Johanne Johansen Wold, Rune Elvegård, Hanne Austerheim
Funding: University of the Arctic
About
Networking is one of the main ingredients for strengthening collaboration and consequently the preparedness in the Arctic. Threats to human safety and the environment, as well as the challenging context, necessitate strengthening of the collaboration for advancing crisis management research and education in the Arctic. The current lack of robust research on crisis management programs and courses in higher education leaves a gap that educators must bridge, seeking out ways to provide and assess the essential abilities for student success. This project aims to contribute to crisis management research and education by emphasizing knowledge transfer, sharing experiences, identifying educational gaps and best practices to further develop the academic cooperation and formalize institutional-level cooperation between Norwegian partners and international ones. The primary target group of the CCArctic will be educator (faculty members), students within crisis/emergency management; and professionals. Main deliverables will be two workshops on curriculum development, project initiatives, students and staff mobility.
Project partners
Nord university (coordinator)
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
University of South-Eastern Norway
The Arctic University of Norway
Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Mid Sweden University, Sweden
York University, Canada
Contact persons:
Ensieh Roud
(Senter for barn og unge og sosial beredskap)
Funding: Research Council of Norway
About
Despite the relatively high wealth and robust social services in Norway, more Norwegian children and youth (C&Y) live in vulnerable situations than we might or should expect. Poverty is one factor that increases vulnerability, as does domestic and sexual abuse, and bullying and exclusion in school. C&Y who have endured these adverse contexts and conditions have a greater incidence of contact with child welfare services, of becoming juvenile crime offenders, and of being over-represented among those with low school performance. This proposal aims to establish a research centre that will coalesce its efforts in research, education, and practice to respond to these prevailing social challenges. By focusing on "children and youth in vulnerable life situations" rather than "vulnerable youth" we aim to refocus attention onto social, rather than individual, factors of vulnerability. Rather than treating vulnerability as a static concept, we start from a rigorous examination of how it has been defined, applied, and understood both institutionally and by C&Y themselves, by involving C&Y in both research design, exploration, data- analysis and dissemination. The PrepChild centre will focus on public social preparedness and the need to prevent marginalisation by redeveloping and optimising the conditions – in domestic spheres, educational arenas, social & digital domains, and local communities – of the lives of C&Y. Doing so effectively, however, requires more rigorous and critically informed collaboration between sectors & institutions, and our centre begins from an analysis of how 'collaboration' and 'vulnerability' have been engaged, understood, misunderstood, and misapplied.
The PrepChild centre will become the hub for a nexus of research, education, and practice on social preparedness that can be applied through up-to-date training & exercises and collaboration across subjects, disciplines, services, & sectors.
The Center for Crisis Management and Collaboration – Nordlab will be engaged in the work on training social preparedness in support of youth: optimizing and harmonizing theory, education, and practice. The center will contribute to developing a comprehensive theoretical framework for social preparedness, developing and testing exercise models aimed at building knowledge, skills, and systems for social preparedness in education and training.
Project partners
Nord university, Faculty for Social Sciences (lead)
Nord university, Faculty of Education and Arts
Nord university, Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences
Nord university, Business School, Center for Crisis Management and Collaboration
Roskilde university, Denmark
Police University College, Norway
Fauske, Bodø, Vefsn municipalities in Norway
Nordland County Administration, Norway
Youth Mental Health Norway (Mental Helse Ungdom)
Contact persons:
Hanne Austerheim
Catrine Torbjørnsen Halås
Funding: Seed Funding for International Research Collaboration, Nord university
About
Around the world, countries are increasingly turning to nuclear energy to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels, combat climate change, and enhance energy security. In the Arctic region, small modular reactor (SMR) technologies are being proposed as a vital component of future fossil-free energy systems. In the Arctic SMRs could be game-changers, addressing climate change in the northernmost regions by providing heat to villages during cold winters, creating new job opportunities and benefitting Arctic local communities. Interest in SMRs is growing among governments, authorities, politicians, the private sector, and research institutions.
We will engage relevant universities, industry and authorities and organize workshop on understanding different aspects of SMR emergency preparedness in the Arctic. The project contributes to High North Research and the university’s strategic objective of societal safety in the Arctic.
Collaborative partners
Nord university (coordinator)
Norsk Kjernekraft
Danish Emergency Management Authority
Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority
Contact persons:
Rune Elvegård
Secureu: Digital education tools for security risk management
Funding: Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, Project number: 2021-1-LV01-KA220-HED-000023056About
Partners from Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain joined their knowledge and expertise and developed this ERASMUS+ project which aims to develop various teaching materials on security risk management. On this platform you will find interesting and useful information, many reading materials, digital security vocabulary, recommendations, exercises, video materials and many other useful learning tools. The main target groups of the project are teachers and students of security related study programmes in Universities and training centres providing education to security professionals.
Web-page: https://security.turiba.lv/
Project partners:
Turiba University, Latvia (Coordinator)
Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Security Professionals’ Association, Latvia
Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Lithuania
Fundasio Universitetat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Avans University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Nord University, NorwayContact persons:
Natalia Andreassen, Ensieh Roud, Rune Elvegård, Daniel Strømstad Kibsgaard
Avsluttede prosjekter / Closed projects
Arctic and North Atlantic Security and Emergency Preparedness Network
About
Funding: EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 786571.
ARCSAR is the first project of its kind to establish an international network that brings together in cooperation search and rescue practitioners, authorities, industry and academia and other organizations in order to identify gaps and opportunities and develop further capabilities to face the increasing demands in the Arctic and North Atlantic region.Web-page: https://arcsar.eu/
Project partners
Norway
Joint Rescue and Coordination Centre – North Norway (Coordinator)
Maritime Forum North
Norwegian Coast Guard – NCG
Norwegian Coastal Administration – NCA
Nord University
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Arctic Expeditionary Cruise Operators AECOIceland
Joint Rescue and Coordination CenterFaroe Islands
Marine Rescue and Coordination Center TorshavnFinland
Laurea University of Applied Sciences
Lapland University of Applied SciencesUK
Maritime and Coastal Agency
University of PortsmouthUSA
United States Coast Guard AcademySweden
Polar QuestIreland
Cork Institute of TechnologyCanada
Memorial University NewfoundlandGermany
Marine Rescue and Coordination Center BremenNew Zealand
Rescue Coordination Center New ZealandItaly
e-GEOS – ItalyContact persons:
Andrey Kazakov, Natalia Andreassen, Rune Elvegård, Emmi Ikonen
About
Den arktiske maritime kompetansenoden skal organiseres som en samarbeidsplattform under ledelse av en styringsgruppe bestående av representanter fra næringen og utdanningsinstitusjoner. Representanter fra Rederiforbundet, sjømannsorganisasjoner og relevante utdanningsinstitusjoner ved Nord Universitet og Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet skal inviteres til å delta i styringsgruppen. En representant fra den maritime næring skal lede styringsgruppen. Maritimt Forum Nord skal ha den daglige ledelse og koordinering av kompetansenoden. De midler som stilles til rådighet fra Nærings- og fiskeridepartementet i et eget tilskuddsbrev skal i sin helhet forvaltes av MFN. Disponeringen av midlene skal forelegges styregruppen.
Styringsgruppen har ansvar for:
• Etablere et kompetanseråd innenfor de rammer og mål for noden som er satt i oppdrags- og tilskuddsbrev.
• Utarbeide og vedta arbeidsplan for nodens virksomhet med utgangspunkt i rammer og mål som er satt i oppdrags- og tilskuddsbrev.Kompetanseråd:
For å sikre en god forankring og godt samarbeid mellom næringene og mellom næringen og utdanningsinstitusjoner, skal det etableres et kompetanseråd for arktisk maritim kompetanse. Representanter fra den maritime næring, maritime organisasjoner, utdanningsinstitusjoner og forskningsmiljø skal inviteres til å delta i kompetanserådet. I tillegg bør nasjonale myndigheter med særskilt ansvar og interesse for arktisk maritim kompetanse som f.eks. Sjøfartsdirektoratet, Kystverket og Kystvakten være representert.
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Student Barents Rescue: Enhanced Education Capabilities Through Cooperation (SBR).
Funding: University of the ArcticAbout
The project’s goal is to strengthen collaboration for high-quality education within emergency preparedness and response in the Arctic region through joint international crisis management exercise for students using flexible collaborative learning approaches. The project is run under the umbrella of the University of the Arctic Thematic network on Arctic Safety and Security and in cooperation between several universities in the Arctic. The main target group includes universities, running study programs within emergency preparedness, prevention and response and students at such programs. Additional important focus group includes governmental agencies, volunteer groups and local community representatives, working with emergency prevention, preparedness and response in the Arctic.
RNSARCARDS: Nordic Action Cards for Maritime Radiological and Nuclear Search and Rescue
Funding: NKS – Nordic Nuclear Safety ResearchAbout
The RNSARCARDS action cards are meant to be used for coordinating search and rescue in a maritime radiological / nuclear emergency. The aim is to establish a common operational picture between the on duty RAD authority and the Search and Rescue Mission Coordinator (SMC) as quickly as possi-ble to conduct an effective rescue operation. The action cards give operation-al guidance for the SMC and provide a checklist of the most relevant RN spe-cific questions in order to conduct risk assessment and start appropriate ac-tions. RNSARCARDS are created based on the standard operating procedures de-scribed in the Nordic handbook for search and rescue in a maritime radiolog-ical / nuclear emergency (RNSARBOOK). RNSARCARDS are aimed to be used as a template for creating national procedures.
On 29 and 30 September 2022, two exercises were conducted to test and improve the first version of the Nordic action cards (RNSARCARDS v. 1.0) for maritime search and rescue operations involving radioactive and nuclear emergencies (RNSAR: Radiological/Nuclear Search and Rescue). The exercise contributors were: Nord University, Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Joint Rescue Coorindation Centre North Norway, Danish Emergency Management Agency, Icelandic Coast Guard and Icelandic Radiation Safety Authority. The main training audience in the exercises were search and rescue mission coordinators from both Norway and Iceland, as well as radiation experts from Norway, Iceland, and Denmark. The scenario was played out in three different positions off the coasts of Denmark, Norway, and Iceland. The scenario involved a nuclear-propelled vessel encountering problems with the cooling system in a reactor. There was a risk of an ongoing release of radionuclides into the air, and the measured levels of radioactivity had increased substantially. The exercise achieved its overall purpose of testing and determining how to improve the action cards for search and rescue operations in a maritime radiological/nuclear emergency. The Exercise-I has improved participants’ understanding of the roles and responsibilities, and the use of the action cards. The exercise-II has provided an opportunity to test the functionality, applicability and structure of the RNSAR action cards among the involved experts. These exercises were conducted under the project RNSARCARDS, led by the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority.
Exercise Evaluation Report RNSARCARDS
Project partners
Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA)
Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Norway
Danish Emergency Management Agency (DEMA)
JRCC Denmark
Icelandic Radiation Safety Authority (IRSA)
Icelandic Coast Guard (ICG)
Finnish Border Guard (FBG)
Nord UniversityContact persons:
RNSARBOOK: Nordic Handbook For Search and Rescrue in a Maritime Radiological/Nuclear Emergency
Funding: NKS – Nordic Nuclear Safety ResearchAbout
Maritime operations in waters surrounding the Nordic countries include traffic of nu-clear propelled vessels and vessels transporting radioactive materials. These opera-tions present a risk of encountering emergency situations at sea where radiological or nuclear (RN) concerns will be an inherent part of conducting successful Search and Rescue (SAR) operations in order to save lives and provide assistance to persons in distress. The aim of the Nordic handbook for search and rescue in a maritime radiologi-cal/nuclear emergency (RNSARBOOK) is to provide harmonized guidelines and rec-ommendations for the handling of maritime SAR operations involving radiologi-cal/nuclear material by Nordic SAR and RN authorities. The handbook is not intended to be used during an ongoing SAR-operation when situational stress is high, but rather to be used for harmonized contingency planning and educational purposes by both SAR and RN organizations. The primary target audiences are SAR and RN authorities and planners at the opera-tional level. The handbook will provide guidance to SAR authorities with a responsibility to coordinate maritime SAR, and RN authorities that have a mandate in providing liai-son and expert advice to the SAR authorities, as well as the possible involvement of specialized radiation measurement teams. The guidelines and procedures explain RN emergencies and safety issues in general and clarifies roles, responsibilities, chain of command and coordination, so both RN and SAR authorities can work efficiently and have an understanding of how the operations are conducted and what is needed in order to respond to these kinds of incidents.
Nordic Handbook For Search and Rescrue in a Maritime Radiological/Nuclear Emergency (RNSARBOOK)
Master thesis in preparedness and emergency management
Project partners
Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA)
Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Norway
Danish Emergency Management Agency (DEMA)
JRCC Denmark
Icelandic Radiation Safety Authority (IRSA)
Icelandic Coast Guard (ICG)
Finnish Border Guard (FBG)
Nord UniversityContact persons:
MAREC: Inter-organizational coordination of mass rescue operations in complex environments
Funding: Research Council of Norway, SAMRISK-2, project nr. 271943About
The Inter-Organizational Coordination of Mass Rescue Operations in Complex Environments (MAREC) project focused on issues related to the coordination of major rescue operations. Joint emergency organizations may include institutions such as fire and rescue services, police forces, coast guards, military forces, medical services, private rescue organizations, and volunteers, each with a different organizational framework and management structure. It can be demanding to quickly mobilize resources and manage the interactions between the available emergency response capacities. Complex environments are characterized by vulnerability, scarce resources, and a high degree of interdependence among the stakeholders involved.
The background for this research project was the knowledge gap related to the organization of emergency response in complex settings, particularly in the context of maritime emergencies in the Arctic, where resources for providing effective emergency response in scarcely populated areas are limited. There had previously been little systematic research in this context dealing with management, inter-organizational coordination through organizational structures, and information coordination during seaborne disasters.
The primary objective of this project was to contribute through knowledge that strengthens and improves strategies related to the emergency response system’s integration of a broad range of actors with varied backgrounds, such as volunteer groups in large-scale emergency operations. The secondary objective was to illuminate the institutional framework for mass rescue operations (MROs), including cross-institutional arrangements that may influence the emergency response and the participation of the organizations mobilized.
The project has contributed to increased knowledge of the collaboration between emergency preparedness actors, including their coordinative roles and mechanisms, the interplay between emergency preparedness policy frameworks and response capacities, information flows, and competence needs. The research work was divided into four appropriate work packages to answer the project objectives. The first focused mostly on the secondary objective and illuminated the institutional background for coordination. The second, third, and fourth work packages together contributed to the primary objective of the project, contributing to our knowledge of coordination and how exercises and courses may integrate and share competences among a broad range of actors.Project partners
Nord University (Coordinator)
World Maritime University
Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping
Police University College
University of Iceland
Memorial University of Newfoundland
University of Greenland
UiT the Arctic University of Norway
UNIS University Centre of SvalbardContact persons:
Natalia Andreassen, Odd Jarl Borch, Andrey Kazakov, Rune Elvegård, Ensieh Roud, Emmi Ikonen, Johannes Schmied
Funding: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
About
The overall goal of the SARex Svalbard project is to increase the possibility and probability to survive long enough to get rescued in an emergency in the polar regions.
Objectives : On the cruise, we focused on three main objectives:
1. Test and evaluation of equipment in order to meet the requirements of the IMOs Polar Code in terms of survival and evacuation. The activities are related to all four working packages (WP) in the project plan, i.e. Survival (WP#1), Communication and situational understanding (WP#2), Evacuation (WP#3), and Oil spill protection (WP#4).
2. To establish and document the best practise of evacuation methods from shore to a rescue vessel, through repeated testing and evaluation of several cases of passenger conditions, and to exercise and train the search and rescue personnel in the Red Cross Longyearbyen, at the Governor of Svalbard's o‑ce and at the Coast Guard Vessel Svalbard in order to improve their skills and knowledge. This activity is a recommendation from the SARiNOR project.
3. To increase the knowledge about how leadership and organization of a group of passengers aects the probability and possibility to survive over a period of several days, on shore, waiting to be rescued after an emergency evacuation of their vessel
MARPART 2-MAN: Maritime Preparedness and International Partnership in the High North-Management
Funding: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nordland County AdministrationAbout
Project Marpart-2 (MAN) focuses on emergency management competence and the development of tailor-made programs for education and training of key personnel involved in emergency operations. There is a demand for knowledge transfer, education and training programs for key personnel working in joint operations, both at sea, within companies, in the voluntary organizations, the local and national government and the preparedness agencies. We focus our research on competence and emergency management capabilities needed at operational and tactical command levels in cross-border high-risk operations.
Marpart-2 (MAN) project goals:
To facilitate knowledge transfer between the educational system, government institutions and emergency key personnel dealing with cross-border high-crisis situations.
To contribute to more tailor-made task force education and to more goal-oriented and cost-efficient training and exercise schemes.
To contribute to more competent host-nation emergency support and efficient cross-border operations through knowledge transfer in and between competence institutions.Project partners
High North Centre at Nord University Business School (Coordinator, Norway)
Norwegian Police University College (PHS) (Norway)
University Center in Svalbard (UNIS) (Norway)
Norwegian Fire Protection Institute (NBSK) (Norway)
Royal Norwegian Naval Academy Navigation Center (RNoNA) (Norway)
Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (FFI) (Norway)
World Maritime University (WMU) (Sweden)
Murmansk State Technical University (MSTU) (Russia)
Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NArFU) (Russia)Contact persons:
Natalia Andreassen, Odd Jarl Borch, Andrey Kazakov, Ensieh Roud, Rune Elvegård, Emmi Ikonen, Johannes Schmied
SARINOR: Styrket beredskap i nordområdene
Funding: Ministry of Foreign AffairsAbout
Project partners:
Maritimt Forum Nord (Coordinator), Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, Christian Michelsen Research, CMR, GMC Maritime AS, Hansen Protection, Harding Safety, Kystvakten, Lufttransport, Marintek, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Nord Universitet, Nordland fylkeskommune, Norges Fiskarlag, Norsafe, NORUT, Polar Safety Systems, SINTEF, Tromsø Skipperforening, Universitetet i Stavanger, Universitetet i Tromsø, Universitetssykehuset Nord-Norge, Viking Life-Saving Equipment, Viking Supply, 133 Luftving, 330-skvadronen
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MARPART: Maritime Preparedness and International Partnership in the High North
Funding: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nordland County AdministrationAbout
The main purpose of this project is to assess the risk of the increased maritime activity in the High North and the challenges this increase may represent for the preparedness institutions in this region. We provide increased knowledge on cross-border partnerships within the maritime preparedness system in the High North including Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Russia. The project has a special focus on the operational management of joint operations and resources within search and rescue, oil spill response, firefighting and counterterrorism.
Project partners
High North Center at Nord University Business School (Coordinator, Norway)
Norwegian Defense University College (Norway)
Norwegian Police University College (Norway)
UIT-the Arctic University of Norway (Norway)
University Center in Svalbard (Norway)
University of Greenland (Greenland)
University of Iceland (Iceland)
Northern (Arctic) Federal University (Russia)
Murmansk State Technical University (Russia)Contact persons:
Odd Jarl Borch, Andrey Kazakov, Natalia Andreassen, Rune Elvegård, Ensieh Roud, Emmi Ikonen, Johannes Schmied