Strategic tasks
- Implement scientific coordination in accordance with strategy documents (including policy documents from the Research Council of Norway)
- Initiate new, update and revise science plans as well as other documents related to
the coordination of research in Svalbard
- Promote the interests of science in matters that will influence scientific activities in Svalbard
- Award ear-marked funds for field research in Svalbard
Facilitation tasks
- Information
- Inform about the availability of infrastructure, including logistics, laboratories, field stations, observatories, office space, necessary applications and permissions, etc
- Maintenance of a web-portal with relevant information for both Norwegian and foreign scientists
- Communicate the societal significance of science in Svalbard
- Meetings
- Arrange workshops, conferences etc. – networking and ”meeting place” functions
Read the entire mandate (Norwegian only):
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