BANHER 2023-2026
The BANHER 2023-2026 is an interdisciplinary endeavor in northern studies including activities in both higher education and research. It explores ideas and develops knowledge bottom up to further social, economic and environmental sustainability in the high north. BANHER 2023-26 has a circumarctic set of networks partners indluding Icelandic and North American prominent scholars, departments and universities.
BANHER 2023-2026 core group
Leader Peter Haugseth, program coordinator Per Kåre Jakobsen, senior researcher Urban Wråkberg
The NSRG institutional collaborations in Russia have been shelved in accordance with Norwegian national directions. Researcher-to-researcher joint work in research and publication continues with trusted Russian individual scholars.
BANHER 2023-26 has re-activated and built new partnerships with North American departments at high-ranked universities. The program of Northern and Canadian Studies at School of the Environment of Trent University Ontario and at the University of Alaska at Anchorage are BANHER partners. We have arranged joint educational excursions on PhD level in 2024 and more is cming up in 2025. Some NSRG based former BNS courses has been discussed as basis for future BANHER joint on-line courses in northern studies. New applications for funding are considered aiming for international exchange of BANHER teachers, joint teaching events and case oriented research projects.
This project's research is based on cutting-edge theory and regional experience from remote place-renewal and development. The overarching aim is to identify and characterize the drivers of innovation in the High North with the East of Finnmark County as the major Norwegian focus and to undertake multifactorial comparative investigation run in common with international partners in the circumarctic. Innovation is today an important rallying call for economic competitiveness and an indispensable link to successful sustainable development. Given several recent measures of e.g. the Nordic Arctic countries to strengthen entrepreneurship and innovation up-north, very little is still known about the factors characterizing policymaking that is successful in promoting innovation long-term both on the local and regional level. It is why the goal of BANHER field research is to empower students and senior scholars to delve into the question of what does innovation mean for the goal of economic and social development in the Circumpolar world?
Photo: The Norwegian Coastal Administration
