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The company conducts both teaching and scientific research. The original UNIS building opened in 1995. The new Svalbard Science Centre, designed by Jarmund/Vigsnæs architects, was officially opened on April 26, 2006, by the King and the Queen of Norway. [1] On September 2, 2009, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon visited ...
In the decade of the 2020s, Norway values its Svalbard fishing trade at about US$94 million annually. [18] The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) has 350 students and a permanent faculty of 40 professors and assistants and 120 guest lecturers. UNIS does not offer degrees, but instead offers semester courses in biology, physics and geology.
School [5] Location(s) Control Established Nord University: Bodø, Levanger, Mo i Rana, Namsos, Nesna, Steinkjer, Stjørdalshalsen, Vesterålen: State: 1994* [note 1] Norwegian University of Life Sciences
The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) in Longyearbyen was established in 1993 and offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses to 350 students. [15] The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a " doomsday " seedbank to store seeds from as many of the world's crop varieties and their botanical wild relatives as possible.
The museum displays artifacts from the history of Svalbard since its settlement, and exhibits of local plants and animals. Its exhibitions describe the factors that support human activity in Svalbard, showing the close relationship between nature and human cultural history on the islands. "Life in Light and Ice" is the museum's core exhibit.
The main building of the University Centre in Svalbard. Academic grading in Svalbard is performed at the University Centre in Svalbard and at the Longyearbyen School. The University Center of Svalbard use the same university grading system as in mainland Norway: [1]
Smeerenburg was a whaling settlement on Amsterdam Island in northwest Svalbard. It was founded by the Danish and Dutch in 1619 as one of Europe's northernmost outposts. It was founded by the Danish and Dutch in 1619 as one of Europe's northernmost outposts.
Today its character reflects that of Svalbard's more mixed economy (tourism, research and mining) with two guesthouses (Guesthouse 102 [2] and Spitsbergen Guesthouse [3]) utilising the former miners' barracks, as well as being home to the Svalbard Art Gallery & Craft Centre, [4] and nearby is the Huset restaurant, club and cinema. [5]