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The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat has opened for applications for Support to Minor Extent (SiMO) grant offering. This grant offering is open to researchers and post-graduate students from all disciplines at Swedish universities, colleges, research institutes and government agencies with a research mandate. Masters students are allowed to apply for support to participate in field …

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On October 31st APECS Sweden’s Ex. Secretary, Ylva Sjöberg, will go to APECS Portugal’s workshop “How to be a polar Scientist for Dummies” in Faro, Portugal. The workshop is held in conjunction with the Portuguese Polar Science Conference and Ylva will participate in a discussion panel on how to work with early career scientist associations. …

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Probably no one in Sweden missed that IPCC held a huge meeting in Stockholm last week – and APECS Sweden was there with 8 volunteers who helped out during the conference, night and day for the four days of the meeting. During the meeting the Summary for Policymakers for the next assessment report (of working …

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Are you interested in doing outreach and educating kids about climate change in the Arctic? The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat (SPRS) are looking for young researchers who want to tell school kids (12-13 years old) about their research during the IPCC conference week, Sept 24-26, in Stockholm. The activities will take place in Kulturhuset in …

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APECS Sweden’s workshop in scientific photography with Peter Rosén was successfully held in Abisko on August 18th. A video of the workshop will be posted on our website after some editing. We thank Peter Rosén and our sponsors MISU, Arcum, Polar and Zoology!