Event: ARCTIC CONNECTIONS – The great challenge of the Arctic: perspectives and changes for a peaceful cooperation

SOCIETÀ ITALIANA PER L’ORGANIZZAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE – SIOI 

REALE AMBASCIATA DI NORVEGIA IN ITALIA

HIGH NORTH CENTER FOR BUSINESS AND GOVERNANCE – NORD UNIVERSITY DI BODØ (NORVEGIA)

Rome, October 18-19, 2022

 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ARCTIC CONNECTIONS

The Great Challenge of the Arctic:
Perspectives and Changes for a Peaceful Cooperation

Hybrid format (weblive and in presence)

Tuesday, October 18

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Institutional Speeches

Franco FRATTINI, President of SIOI

Johan VIBE, Ambassador of Norway to Italy

Massimiliano NANNINI, Director of the Italian Hydrographic Institute

Maria Chiara CARROZZA, President, National Research Council of Italy

Frode MELLEMVIK, Director of the High North Center, Nord University Business School

First Panel

4.00 pm – 5.30 pm

The Arctic dilemma: regional dynamics of a security in transition

Clara GANSLANDT, EU Special Envoy for Arctic Matters, European External Action Service

Aldo PIGOLI, Professor, International Relations Analysis, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan

Andreas ØSTHAGEN, Senior Advisor, High North Center, Nord University Business School, Bodø,

Senior Research Fellow Fridtjof Nansen Institute

Moderator: Arne O. HOLM, Editor in Chief, High North News

Wednesday, October 19

Second Panel

9:30 am – 11.15 am

New emerging leadership in the Arctic

Carmine ROBUSTELLI, Special Envoy for the Arctic, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Bjørn OLSEN, Professor at the High North Center, Nord University Business School

Ida Kristine JAKOBSEN, General Manager, Clarion Hotel The Edge by Nordic Choice Hotels, Tromsø    

Tonje Margrete WINSNES JOHANSEN, Advisor, Arctic and Environment Unit, Saami Council

Moderator: Bård Borch MICHALSEN, Associate professor, The Arctic University of Norway, Harstad and the High North Center, Nord University Business School

Third Panel

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Europe’s energy crisis and the need of cooperation

Marco PIREDDA, Head of International Affairs Analysis and Business Support – Public Affairs Department, ENI S.p.A.

Knut Vidar LARSSEN, Exploration and Production Director for the Barents Sea, Equinor

Tommaso PARRINELLO, Aeolus and Cryosat Mission Manager · European Space Agency – ESA

Paolo SELLARI, Professor, Geopolitics of transport, University of Rome La Sapienza

Rolf LAUPSTAD, Mayor, Berlevåg

Kjell RICHARDSEN, Business developer, Berlevåg

Moderator: Petter NORE, Professor, Nord University

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