On 13 April 2021, as part of Candidacy of the Czech Republic for Observer Status in the Arctic Council, an online scientific and cultural seminar, Czechia in the Arctic / The Arctic in Czechia – Echoes of Arctic Festivals 2018-21, was hosted by the Consulate General...
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New important information reagarding the spread of COVID-19
The Norway Grants and the Ministry of Finance accepted further adjustment of the AF 2020 programme due to the spread of COVID-19. The duration of the festival has been extended until the end of this year and our foreign partners will arrive in Prague in September...
Prof. Emeritus Josef Svoboda appointed Officer of the Order of Canada
You are cordially invited to celebrate Professor Emeritus Josef Svoboda, world renowned high Arctic plant ecologist and Officer of the Order of Canada on 26 January 2021 from 11am (5pm CET): https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88931074070 More information here...
Arctic Festival 2020 Opening on 6 December in Ústí nad Labem and vernissage on 10 December in Teplice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNkATnAUp4c&ab_channel=DarumaSro https://youtu.be/RQnI9Dh_RTM
Press release on the opening of the Festival
Press release on the opening of the Arctic Festival 2020. We start on Sunday 6 December 2020 at 3 pm in Ústí nad Labem. We continue with an online presentation of the "Arctic" issues of the magazines A2, Plav and Geografické rozhledy on Monday 7 December at 4 pm. The...
Important news concerning the spread of COVID-19
The Norway Grants and the Ministry of Finance accepted the modification of the AF 2020 programme due to the spread of COVID-19. The programme will be divided in two parts and our foreign partners will arrive in Prague first in March 2021 instead of December 2020. The...
Norway’s indigenous people: From assimilation to recognition
New article by Robert Kvile, Ambassador of Norway to the Czech Republic. Norway’s indigenous people: From assimilation to recognition Back in 2007, the then President of the Sami Parliament in Karasjok, Mr. Egil Olli, told me about his first day in school as a...
The Arctic Festival is Online!
On 13 July 2020, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, supported by its partner, Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromsø, applied for financial support for the preparation and implementation of Arctic Festival 2020. The grant application for bilateral...