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University of South Bohemia

University Centre in Svalbard

The project was focused on organizing common field-work in polar ecology. This proposal by the University of South Bohemia and the University Centre in Svalbard was focused on extending the regular education of life science in an arctic environment. This was preparation for accreditation of arctic life science courses in the university education system in the Czech Republic, and in addition it was a preparatory phase in establishing a common university education provided in collaboration with the above-mentioned universities. This field work continued the previously organized education offered by the Centre for Polar Ecology, the University of South Bohemia. The project intensified university education by using the field coordination capacities of the USB and the laboratory equipment of UNIS together with joint scientific teams from both institutions. The most important benefit was mutual collaboration between Czech and Norwegian students and establishing opportunities for long term research cooperation.

953 678,70 CZK / 35 988 €