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1. 4 November

   Before summer 2025, Dorothee Bohn was accepted into the Arctic Six Fellowship program for 2025-2027. Bohn is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Geography at Umeå University who seeks to use this Fellowship program to develop her expertise on human-nature relations in regional development, team up with fellow Arctic researchers and challenge the discourse on the disconnection between regional development and nature in the Arctic.

   Arctic Six Fellow wants to explore relations in northern sparsely populated areas

2. 24 October

   This question was at the centre of strategic discussions at the Rector’s Conference of The Arctic Six this week in Tromsø.

   How can universities in the Nordic Arctic region jointly support societal development?

3. 23 October

   Yin Hu’s research project aims at developing biobased batteries with enhanced longivity and performance in extreme cold conditions. “Developing these kinds of batteries will contribute to the ecological and economical sustainibility in the Arctic, as well as other cold regions in the world”, says Yin Hu.

   He will develop cold resistant biobased batteries

4. 21 October

   While The Arctic Six at Nord University is newly started, The Arctic Six research is already in full bloom.

   Nord researchers cultivate Arctic solutions through The Arctic Six