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Workshop report “Building transdisciplinary bridges in Svalbard”
In 2023 and 2024, the Svalbard Social Science Initiative (SSSI) hosted two workshops...
Ragnhild Bjørnsen (SSSI) in residency with Artica Svalbard
Ragnhild Bjørnsen is currently in Longyearbyen for a residency with Artica Svalbard. She was...
Art/Place webinar about Svalbard
Art/Place is a webinar series exploring how artists and/or arts-based practitioners engage with...
Upcoming SIOS Webinar “Contaminating Encounters”
On 14 April at 13:00, SSSI member Zdenka Sokolickova and colleagues Anne...
Article on Svalbard’s green turn in New Internationalist
The magazine New Internationalist recently published a feature about “Svalbard’s green gamble”....
SSSI contributed to hearing input for the Svalbardmelding
On September 26th 2024, the standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence held an open meeting...
Svalbard Social Science Initiative members at the Arctic Circle Assembly
In Reykjavik in the middle of October every year, scientists, businesspeople, politicians and...
Building transdisciplinary bridges for sustainable Svalbard and Arctic development
On 29 May, the SSSI organized the second in a series of two workshops entitled “Building...
SSSI panel at the Arctic Congress
At the Arctic Congress in Bodø, several members of SSSI participated in a panel session called...
Book Launch: Svalbard Imaginaries
On February 19, 2024 three of our members, Mathias Albert, Dina Brode-Roger, and Lisbeth Iversen,...
Season’s Greetings
The SSSI wishes everyone a very happy holiday season and all the best for 2024! The photos are...
SSSI Workshop: Building transdisciplinary bridges for sustainable Svalbard and Arctic development
On November 30th, the SSSI organized a workshop entitled "Building transdisciplinary bridges for...
Documentary “The Visitors” nominated to Gulluglen
The Visitors (CZ-SK-NO, 2022), the documentary portraying the work of Zdenka Sokolickova...
Good news 3
This time congratulations goes to Dina Brode-Roger who has...
Good news 2
More good news from our members! This time congratulations goes to Julia Olsen who has just become...














