Replay or renew? Learning from 20+ years of Norwegian-Russian collaboration on health and social welfare in the Barents region
A research project (2021-2024) funded by the Research Council of Norway (The UTENRIKS programme)
NEWS
- New report on municipal friendship agreementsVigdis Nygaard, NORCE has published a report analyzing 50 years of cooperation between municipalities in Northern Norway and Northwest Russia in the period 1972 to 2022. The study documents signing of 30 agreements involving 28 different northern Norwegian municipalities. This cooperation grew from a formal exchange of delegations of administrative staff and politicians to a …
- Master’s thesis from RE:BarentsAurora Xiao Nicoline Ressler has defended her Master’s thesis: The Friendship Cooperation Between Karasjok and Lovozero: A Qualitative Study of a Multidimensional Cross-border Friendship Between Two Sámi Capitals at Oslo Metropolitan University (Social Welfare and Health Policy). Aurora has been an active participant in the RE:Barents project, and we are proud of her great work. …
- Presenting RE:Barents results at the Arctic Congress conference in Bodø
The Arctic Congress https://www.arcticcongress.com/ is this year’s biggest venue to present social science results of ongoing research in the Arctic. The event took place in Bodø and gathered more than 1000 participating researchers. Vigdis Nygaard from NORCE represented RE:Barents, and her presentation “Fading friendship – in the face of geopolitical changes” told the story about …
RE:BARENTS
RE:Barents examines the impact of Norwegian–Russian collaboration on health and social welfare in the Barents region since 2000. The project fills a gap by producing knowledge on the long-term impact of the projects, programmes and work of the committees, councils and expert groups engaged in this collaboration, and how it has affected the quality and durability of networks between authorities on various levels.
The overarching research question:
What are the impacts, direct and indirect, of the past 20+ years of Norwegian–Russian collaboration in health and social welfare in the Barents region?