Mon, Mar 19, 2007

GoNorth Background

The idea of such a program was initiated by a representative from a University of the Arctic member, Scandinavian Seminar Group, in 2005. At that time, University of the Arctic already had a successful student mobility program called north2north, which facilitates study opportunities to students from the North, in the North and by the North. The idea of a new student mobility program was to facilitate the same opportunities to students outside the Circumpolar regions, as a supplement to north2north.
 
GoNorth- as it came to be called at the time of the approval by the University of the Arctic Council in May 2005 – has the philosophy that the best way to learn is by first hand experience. By making higher education in the Circumpolar world more visible and accessible, the program will have an important function in recruiting students from more southern regions of the world to study issues of importance not only for societies in the North but for the world at large.
 
The initial program task force submitted a proposal to the EU Erasmus Mundus program in 2005 and was granted financial support for two years (ending in December 2007) to develop the program through a GoNorth! project with 12 UArctic partner institutions.

Today GoNorth has a Program Team whose task is to develop GoNorth as a joint recruitment tool together wtih Studies Catalogue.
 
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