Granted networks 2009 - Nordplus

07 Geography
ID: 21882
Network: Nordlys
Coordinating institution: OULUN YLIOPISTO - ULEÅBORGS UNIVERSITET Country: FI
Coordinator: Riitta Kataja (riitta.kataja@oulu.fi)
Network description: The purpose of Nordlys is to give those students who do not have a
Nordplus network in their own field of studies a possibility to go on exchange to another Nordic
country. There is a gap in certain disciplines where students who do not have Nordplus grants
available in their own field. Also, although there are some existing Erasmus agreements with
certain Nordic Universities, they are restricted and cannot necessarily offer placements to all
disciplines. Greatest demand currently is in geography and other geosciences, which is part of
environmental sciences. The purpose is to encourage these students to gain and share information
about how sustainable development is taught in other Nordic countries and to be able to tackle the
challenges that societies with similar environmental have. Another student group that currently
apply Nordlys grants to Nordic Universities are Humanities students and Dentistry students,
because their own Nordplus networks have stopped getting funding.
Granted activities
MOBILITY
Partners
KARLSTADS UNIVERSITET
AARHUS UNIVERSITET
HÁSKÓLINN Á AKUREYRI
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Country
SE
DK
IS
ID: 22249
Network: Geonord
Coordinating institution: ITÄ-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO Country: FI
Coordinator: Ilkka Pyy (ilkka.pyy@uef.fi)
Network description: The main purpose of the Geonord-network and its co-operation is two-fold:
a) to develop and intensify the links between geographers and universities in the Baltic and Nordic
countries, b) to create new skills in research and problem-solving of regional development in the
context of Northern peripheries. The main activies of the network contains jointly planned
intensive courses and student/teacher exchange mobility. The thematic issue of the course varies
year by year, but the basic content always offers new and comparative viewpoints to local and
regional development matters in Northern Europe with special emphasis on peripheral areas. In
this year 2010 the course will focus on on regional disparities and spatial policies concerning binary
thinking as a major obstacle and various settings of dialogues as oppotunity for development. The
field research will be conducted in the Baltic borderlands but comparative analysis will be made
with some Nordic counterparts. A special attention will be targeted to local development events
and initiatives, but they will be analyzed both in the general context of supra-local factors and in
the theoretical context of path-dependency, learning region and post-colonialism. The empirical
cases will cover the whole variation of activities from resource-based economies (agriculture,
mining, forestry, energy industry) to features of experienced economy.
Granted activities
MOBILITY, INTENSIVE COURSE
Partners
UMEÅ UNIVERSITET
HØGSKOLEN I BODØ
Country
SE
NO