High North Academy

High North Academy

High North Academy (HNA) is funded by UiT – The Arctic University of Norway and organizes intensive PhD courses in transferable skills.  HNA courses are an opportunity to strenghten your research skills as well as to enhance your future career opportunities.

The courses are taught either online or at UiT’s Campus in Tromsø and in most courses you will use your own research data and results.

HNA courses are designed for PhD candidates from all faculties at UiT, regardless of scientific background. PhDs outside UiT, Postdocs and others may participate if there are available spaces.

Course portfolio

Some courses are handy early on in your PhD, whereas others are more useful towards the end. 

Suggested for first or second year students:

• GEN-8001 Take control of your PhD Journey (2 ECTS) digital course (spring) - physical course (autumns)
• HEL-8045 Innovation and public science communication (3 ECTS) physical course in English (spring) and Norwegian (autumn)  
• SVH-8005 Research Ethics (3 ECTS) digital course (autumn) - physical course (spring)
• TEK-8507 Data stewardship (3 ECTS) hybrid course (spring)

Suggested for second or third year students:

• FSK-8002 Scientific writing (3 ECTS) physical course (fall)
• BED-8004 Academic entrepreneurship (2 ECTS) next course in 2027

PhD candidates who want to gain ECTS credits for our HNA courses need to take the exam and register through Studentweb (PhDs at UiT) or apply in Søknadsweb (PhDs outside UiT). See registration/application deadlines in the UiT course catalogue. 

We also recommend PhD candidates to check further multidisciplinary courses organized by UiT: 

• SVF-8602 Changing Arctic Seminar (hybrid on request)
• BIO-8621 Sustainability science (hybrid on request)
• Introductory course in teaching and learning in higher education

Contact information

If you have any questions, you can reach us via email at hna@uit.no.