UArctic students will be joined by 10 selected students from Korean univers ities. Participants will need to be available for the 10-day Program and co nsider their travel time to Korea.

The Program will include lectures on Arctic issues (4 to 5 days) given by international and Korean experts, a nd field trips (3 to 4 days) to Arctic related organizations, research inst itutions, and industrial sites in Korea.

A certificate of completion will be co-issued by UArctic and KMI to participants who have successfully completed the program. 

UArctic members from Arctic States (US, Canada, Russia, Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark/Greenland/Faro e Islands) are called upon to nominate 2 students per member institution to participate in this program. Member institutions should take into consider ation when making the nomination that indigenous students will be prioritiz ed in the overall selection

Please submit a CV (should include email address and telephone number) and motivation letter ( approx. 600 words/1 p age) in one file of each nominated students to This email address is being protected from spambo ts. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by April 5, 2019. We do not accept application s directly from students. Home institution needs to select you.

For s tudents: If you are unsure of whom to contact from your home institution, p lease go to UArctic member profiles and click your institutional profile an d the Representative on Council or north2north contacts (if your institutio n is involved with the north2north program).

The following el igibility criteria apply:
-20 Bachelor/Master/ PhD students f rom UArctic member institutions in Arctic States are selected for the progr am. Students with an indigenous background will be given preference for the program during the selection process. The program is open to students of a ll academic backgrounds.
-The student should be registered at an UArct ic member institution in an Arctic State for an academic degree. 
-UArctic/KMI can also select other Arctic States students to achieve an ap propriate composition of the group
-The student should have finished t heir second year of Bachelor study
-The student is motivated to active ly participate and to enhance understanding of the Arctic and Korea
-T he student must have sufficient knowledge of English, both oral and written

The organizer (will be announced soon, tentatively KMI) in K orea will cover:
- Round-trip flight tickets between Korea (B usan) and the nearest airport to the student 
- Designated accomm odation in Korea during the official period of the Academy (3-13 July, 10 n ights) 
- Additional lodging caused inevitably by flight schedule in accordance to KMI’s financial guideline 
- Transportation wit hin Korea needed for participation in the program activities 
- m eals included in official program
*KMI will not be providing any other types of support other than the ones mentioned above.

Studen ts are responsible for the following expenses:
- Personal tra vel insurance covering medical expenses, flight accidents etc.
- Costs incurring from taking land transportation within one’s own country
- Costs for activities that is not part of the official program
- Costs for additional stay in Korea before or after the official program period, 3 (check-in)-13(check-out), July
- Any additional costs resulting from a ltering the flight schedule provided by organizer to include other destinat ions other than the student’s home country 
- Other personal expe nses such as costs for issuing passport and documentations needed for parti cipating in the Academy

Decisions procedure:
Th e final selection of students will be made by the UArctic and KMI by the en d of April, 2019. The selected students will be informed immediately afterw ards. The students are expected to confirm their participation within one w eek afterwards.

Selected students should submit a 10-slide power poin t presentation to the KMI Secretariat by the end of May, 2019. The KMI Secr etariat will approach each selected student with detailed information after the selection process has been completed.

If the selected student do es not reply to or submit the requested material and information by the KMI Secretariat based on the notified guidelines, KMI holds the right to cance l his/her participation to the Academy and give that opportunity to the nex t applicant for the purpose of the program.

If you have questions, pl ease contact: This em ail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled t o view it.

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