Education and Research

The first Regional Working Group on Education and Research (BEAR WGER) was established in 2001 after the Barents Council had approved an Exchange Programme for Higher Education and Research in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region with a Programme Board consisting of representatives from relevant authorities in order to facilitate exchanges in higher education and research. After having finished its task the Programme Board was closed, and the activities then were passed to the Working Group on Education and Research (WGER).

In 2004 by the decision of the Committee of Senior Officials BEAC (BEAC/CSO) it was transformed into a new Joint Working Group on Education and Research (JWGER). Several international forums on education have been held on the basis of different Barents Region universities, that proves there is joint activities and successful collaboration among the Barents universities.

The present work of the group is carried out through regular forums on education and research hosted by an institution of higher education and research in any of the member countries.

In May 2009 The Barents Regional Committee and the Committee of Senior Officials BEAC adopted a new Mandate of the JWGER and Petrozavodsk State University was adopted to act as a regional chair of the Joint Working Group on Education.

The Joint Working Group on Education and Research presentation at the BEAC CSO Meeting in Oslo, 7-8 December 2011 

NARFU (Northern Arctic Federal University) presentation at the BEAC CSO Meeting in Oslo, 7-8 December 2011 

More information on education and research in the Barents Region can be found here .

Documents

Contact information:

Co-Chair
Ms. Marina Kalinina
Vice-rector of International Cooperation
Northern (Arctic) Federal University
17, Naberezhnaya Severnoj Dviny, 163002 Archangelsk
163002 Archangel, Russia
Tel: +7 (8182) 21 61 60
Mob: +7 921 721 09 44
E-mail: m.r.kalinina@narfu.ru

Co-Chair
Ms. Britt -Vigdis Ekeli
Vice President for Education
University of Tromsø
9037 Tromsø, Norway
Tel: +47 77 66 07 08
Mob: +47 99 71 21 96
E-mail: britt.ekeli@uit.no 

Mr. Anatoly Voronin,
Rector of Petrozavodsk State University
33 Lenina Avenue
Petrozavodsk 185910, Republic of Karelia, Russia
Tel: +7 (8142) 71 10 01, 78 51 40
Fax: +7 (8142) 71 10 00
E-mail: rector@psu.karelia.ru
E-mail: voronin@psu.karelia.ru

Ms. Liudmila Kulikovskaya (contact for Mr Anatoly Voronin)
Head of Directorate for International Cooperation
Petrozavodsk State University
Tel: +7 (8142) 71 10 89
Mob: +7 (9217) 268 458
Fax: +7 (8142) 78 26 68
E-mail: kulikovskaya@psu.karelia.ru 

Mr. Ilya Ivankin
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture in the Arkhangelsk Region
49 Trotksy Pr., 163000, Arkhangelsk, Russia
Tel.: +7 8182 215280
Fax: +7 8182 207817
E-mail: arhobr@dvinaland.ru  

Ms. Nina Nesterova
Deputy Minister of Education of the Republic of Komi
210 K. Marx St., Syktyvkar, Komi, Russia
Tel.: +7 8212 25 70 02
Fax: +7 8212 24 22 29
E-mail: minedukomi@yandex.ru