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Nordic Centre, Fudan University
25-year anniversary
 

Nordic Center 25th Anniversary was organizer as a digital event on October 18-19, 2021.

Program

October 18 - Anniversary Ceremony

09:00-10:00 (CEST) 15:00-16:00 (CST)

09:00 / 15:00 Opening
Chair of Nordic Centre Board and Council Prof. Per Cramér, The University of Gothenburg

09:05 / 15:05 Screening of short anniversary film: 25 years of Nordic Centre

09:10 / 15:10 Presentation on Sino-Nordic Collaborations
Prof. Kalle-Antti Suominen, Vice-rector for research, University of Turku.

09:30 / 15:30 Keynote speech
Prof. TANG Xu, Fudan University. Executive Director, IRDR International Center of Excellence

October 19 - Scientific Workshops

Four workshops were arranged parallelly 09:00-12:00(CEST) 15:00-18:00(CST):

  • Social policy workshop: The changing conditions for social resilience – Sino-Nordic perspectives on social policy. Session conveners: Rune Halvorsen, Oslo Metropolitan University & Stein Kuhnle, University of Bergen

  • Arctic workshop: Multidisciplinary perspectives on a changing Arctic.

    Part 1: The Arctic and Social Impacts of Climate Change

    Session conveners: Guðbjörg Ríkey (University of Iceland), Pia Elísabeth Hansson (University of Iceland), Sanna-Kaisa Kopra (University of Lapland)

    Part 2: The Arctic from the perspectives of Climatology and Atmospheric Sciences

    Session conveners: Zhang Ruonan (Fudan University), Mats Björkman & Deliang Chen (University of Gothenburg)

    Part 3: Plenary discussion

Anniversary film

Anniversary committee:

Lu Li’an (chair, Fudan University, China)

Jan Ifversen (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Geir Sigurðsson (University of Iceland, Iceland)

Camilla Brautaset (University of Bergen, Norway)

Kalle-Antti Suominen (University of Turku, Finland)

Hans Abelius (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)