University of Lapland students at the Master’s and PhD levels now have the opportunity to participate in an extracurricular online module, run by the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam.

The module is called REPAIR, which stands for
‘Re-focusing the European Green Deal on the protection of the environment, security
and Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the Arctic’. Students from the University of
Lapland will join students from the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam in this online
module. 

Studies include topics such as
introduction to Arctic development, territorial conflicts, natural resource
politics, contemporary colonialism, Green deal, environmental protection, Indigenous
rights, and environmental governance.

The module is
intended for students from a variety disciplines, ranging from political and social
sciences and law to earth sciences and environmental resource
management. 

The module kicks off with an opening
event on 25th November 2022. The lectures of the module will take place in
topic-based sessions every 2-3 weeks, starting from December 2022 with a tentative
end date 9th June 2023. Full schedule will be available soon, please see the REPAIR
website www.jmmodulerepair.org

Upon concluding the module, the students will receive a certificate from the
Faculty of Social Sciences, VU Amsterdam, demonstrating that they have taken the
module as an extracurricular activity (upon regular attendance). There are no exams,
and no graded assignments. As an optional assignment, the students can write a
policy paper. The best papers will be published as a policy outlook paper on the
webpage of REPAIR.

The module is taught by researchers in
politics and law from VU Amsterdam and by researchers from the Arctic Centre,
University of Lapland.

Students can self-register to this
Module by scanning the QR code below. Upon registration, students will be given
guest accounts to VU Amsterdam’s online learning environment, Canvas. Students can
register at any time during the module, but preferably by the opening event on 25th
November 2022.

This Jean Monnet Module is supported
by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and is hosted at the Department of
Political Science and Public Administration of VU Amsterdam. 

For more information, please see the REPAIR website: www.jmmodulerepair.org

With any questions, please email the REPAIR coordinator, Dr. Özlem
Terzi,  o.terzi(at)vu.nl.

Further
information:
University researcher Marjo Lindroth,
marjo.lindroth(at)ulapland.fi, 040-484 4028
Research professor Monica
Tennberg, monica.tennberg(at)ulapland.fi, 040 019 2005