Northern (Arctic) Federal University announces Winter School "Model Arctic Council" (MAC) to take place February, 25 – 28, 2014 in Arkhangelsk, Russia.
Northern (Arctic) Federal University invites proactive and creative Master and PhD students to increase their knowledge on the Arctic issues, meet like-minded participants from the other countries and develop their leadership skills. Winter school participant will be given 5 ECTS after the course completion.
Overall idea of the MAC is to promote scientific Arctic research and strengthen international scientific and educational cooperation between UArctic universities.
School includes lectures, workshops given by the experts in the field of Arctic policy, and a role-play game which is designed to give a chance to the students to model the work of the Arctic Council, to discuss various problems of the Arctic region and to express their own understanding of the situation.
Winter school participants will be given 5 ECTS after completion. The deadline for registration is November, 30, 2013.
More information available here.