The Northern Institute for Environment and Minority Law (NIEM) at the Arctic Centre has received 35,500 euro from the Finnish National Agency for Education (EDUFI). The funding is granted to implement the project entitled “Interdisciplinary curricula on indigenous and tribal peoples’ studies.”

The project brings together scholars from
Finnish and Indian higher education institutions to develop a coherent and uniform
interdisciplinary course module with explicit content concerning indigenous and
tribal peoples’ studies. The project will establish a learning satellite
through an online environment for students and scholars from both
Finland and India and offer education mobility opportunities for a selected number
of students and scholars from Finland to Indian partner institutions to carry out
comparative studies on indigenous and tribal peoples. The project’s ultimate
aim is to strengthen cooperation in research and education between partner
institutions from Finland and India.

The project runs for two
years, starting from October 2020 and ending on 31 December 2022. The project
partners are the Universities of Lapland and Oulu from Finland and three
Universities from India including, the India Indira Gandhi National
Tribal University, University of North Bengal,
and Sikkim University. 

The
UArctic Law Thematic Network supports the project, and Research professor
Kamrul Hossain at the NIEM leads the project.

For more information

Research professor
Kamrul Hossain

tel. +358 40 484 4281,
kamrul.hossain@ulapland.fi