Roundtable The Role of the Universities of the Arctic and the North in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

More and more universities around the world are striving to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, which were adopted at the UN Summit in September 2015. In recent years, the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings have appeared, which assesses the impact of higher education on1 Northern Sustainable Development Forum-2020 Program the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Within the framework of the round table, leading universities in the Arctic and the North will share their experience in achieving the SDGs.

It is also planned to discuss the implementation of the Agreement between the UArctic and the NF

Moderators:

• • Anatoly Nikolaev, Rector, NEFU;
• • Lars Kullerud, President, University of the Arctic, NEFU Honorary Professor.

Speakers:

• • Diana Hirschberg, Vice-President Academic, University of the Arctic
• • Dr. Heather Nicol, Director, School for the Study of Canada, Director, Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, Professor of Geography, School of the Environment, Program Coordinator, Circumpolar Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
• • Magnus De Witt, PhD student, Reykjavik University
• • Douglas Cosey, Professor, University of Alaska Anchorage; Arctic Initiative, Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• • Irina Shadrina, Rector, Murmansk Arctic State University (Russia), Doctor of Pedagogy, Associate professor, сo-speakers: Maria Knyazeva, Vice-Rector for Research, MASU, Candidate (PhD) of Physical and Mathematical Sciences; Lyubov Lychkina, Vice-Rector for Youth Policy, MASU, Candidate of Economic Sciences; Anna Popova, Head of the Project Office, MASU
• Roman Korsun, Rector, North-Eastern State University (Russia)
• Sergey Sorokin, Vice-Rector for Educational Activities, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Arkhangelsk, Russia, Doctor of Philosophy
• Anna Skrigan, Senior Researcher, Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO), University of Tyumen

Participants

• Evgeny Merkulov, Acting Rector, Vitus Bering Kamchatka State University (no presentation, participates in the discussion)

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