Nordregio seeks a new Administrator with experience in project- and/or salary administration.

During June 22nd-26th Nordregio will participate in the Seventh International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences in Akureyri, Iceland.

All over the world and also in the Arctic there is a clear tendency of urbanisation. Ownership to dwellings is also gradually changed from public to private. A housing market is established and Greenland is one example. In Russia, at the Kola-peninsula, the standard of flats in the Krutsjovsky styled blocks is increasing. The owners invest in their flats. A few people are building large villas while many are leaving the region all together. Jobs are fewer and the economical advantages of living in the High North are reduced. Attention is also paid to the growing housing-crisis in Iceland in the Journal of Nordregio no 2-2011, which has just been published. This will also be the last issue of this journal to be available in a printed format.

On May 17th Nordregio hosted the first Nordregio Forum, bringing together Nordregio personnel and practitioners to discuss Green Growth. The event was successful and allowed Nordregio’s research staff the ability to see the issue from multiple stakeholder perspectives.

Nordregio researcher Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, an expert on Arctic related issues, was interviewed by Vetenskapsradion, a program on Swedish Radio, in two broadcasts about the possibilities and dangers of extracting oil in Arctic regions.