Tuesday 01.July 2008
RES's Director, Dr. Bjorn Gunnarsson, was one of several professors teaching in the International Summer School of Karelia 2008, ISSK'08, held May 15 - 19. This was the third time that Dr. Gunnarsson
participated in ISSK, but the main theme of ISSK'08 was "Energy Security".
Lectures were given at the Petrozavodsk State University, Petrozavodsk, Russia. Altogether about 25 undergraduate and graduate students took part in the program, majority coming from Russia. Students' backgrounds were mainly in political science and international relations with emphasis on natural resources. Dr. Gunnarsson gave four hour-long lectures on the following topics: "Current and Future Outlook for Renewable Energy Technologies", "Renewable Energy Utilization: What can be learned from the Icelandic Experience?", "The Importance of Energy Education: RES – School for Renewable Energy Science in Iceland"; and "Arctic Energy Sources, Transportation & Climate Change".
ISSK'08 students with Professor Dr. Vladimir Voloshin from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Picture taken on an afternoon excursion to Kondopoga's pulp and paper mill (Photo by B. Gunnarsson).
The proposed theme for the next summer school, ISSK'09 is "Environmental Politics in the Eurasian North". For further information about ISSK please contact Dr. Gunnarsson or Dr. Lassi Heininen, ISSK Director and Docent at the University of Lapland (tel. +358 40 734 7417).
Additional information on ISSK'08
Lectures were given at the Petrozavodsk State University, Petrozavodsk, Russia. Altogether about 25 undergraduate and graduate students took part in the program, majority coming from Russia. Students' backgrounds were mainly in political science and international relations with emphasis on natural resources. Dr. Gunnarsson gave four hour-long lectures on the following topics: "Current and Future Outlook for Renewable Energy Technologies", "Renewable Energy Utilization: What can be learned from the Icelandic Experience?", "The Importance of Energy Education: RES – School for Renewable Energy Science in Iceland"; and "Arctic Energy Sources, Transportation & Climate Change".
ISSK'08 students with Professor Dr. Vladimir Voloshin from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Picture taken on an afternoon excursion to Kondopoga's pulp and paper mill (Photo by B. Gunnarsson).
The proposed theme for the next summer school, ISSK'09 is "Environmental Politics in the Eurasian North". For further information about ISSK please contact Dr. Gunnarsson or Dr. Lassi Heininen, ISSK Director and Docent at the University of Lapland (tel. +358 40 734 7417).
Additional information on ISSK'08
