On Friday 13th of May Nothern Stars Seminar 2016 was organized by students of Lapin AMK in cooperation with student union InnoBarentsLab. The core team consists of the project leader Denis Ivanov, together with students from IB14: Ekaterina Bogoaivlenskaia, Alesya Gritsuk and Sergei Tarasenko. Planning phase of the project started already in February, where the team was formed and the actual work began by planning the timetable for the next few months. From time to time along the way there appeared some challenges (time management, financial support to mention a few) but despite…Read more

This is it – the last day of our senior citizen units visiting tour around Lapland! This time we went to Ylitornio to organize activities for elderly in Ylitornion palvelukoti and Palvelukoti Lantonvainio. Aaron Celeste from Tornio drove first to Rovaniemi to pick us up (Irina Sergeeva, Milla Sandholm and Nina Niskala). Even though Aaron didn’t know Rovaniemi that well, everything went smoothly and we managed to set out to Ylitornio on time. Since this was indeed the last day of our visits, everyone felt little bit tired, and to break the ice…Read more

Thursday proved to be quite an interesting journey as I was travelling with the member of the project coming from Tornio, Aaron Celeste.  It was Aaron´s first time ever to drive to Rovaniemi so naturally there was a small complication in finding a place for him to stop the car and me to hop in but we were efficient enough to stay on schedule any way. On the way to Ranua I received a phone call from the director of both of the senior citizen units we were going to visit that day,…Read more

  Monday morning started off in a bit different tone as members became a temporary moving firm in addition to planned visits in senior citizen units. We moved small shelves and wooden pieces of a bed to the minibus and unboxed them in our destination in Pello, at Nina´s grandma´s place, proving how multifunctional we can make our processes. Since Nina was familiar with driving to Pello, her drive to there was really smooth and the relaxed atmosphere reminded me of a fun road trip. As usual I hosted the performances in senior…Read more

Week 16 proved to be busy for everyone so that in the end only us, Nina Niskala & Laura Ukkola, were still able to reserve time to visiting the senior citizen units in Kemi from Wednesday to Friday. Despite dealing with a car booking hassle and hard-to-read GPS, we were able to keep our promise to visit all the units that were expecting us and provide to them the performance successfully. Nestorin palvelukoti & Virekoti Purola On Wednesday morning  first up was Nestorin palvelukoti. When we arrived to the assigned place, seniors were…Read more

Nothing – early morning, bad weather, long distances – stops IBL team today! With a positive attitude we have started DAY 1 of trips within the project ‘Give Back to Lapland’! Our first aim was a housing unit ‘Hopeaharju’, located in Salla. Today’s team consisted of Nina (driver), Laura (guide), Jia, Michelle and Irina. IBL members were welcomed by a friendly staff and curious elderly people. Surrounded by quite an impressive group of them, IBL team performed the following activities: Introduction – presentation of each member and short description of the project itself…Read more

Organized for already seventh time in Rovaniemi, this year´s Arctic Business Forum  took place in Korundi, house of culture, April 6-7. The core of ABF was to introduce the latest developments of the Arctic regions inside the framework of business possibilities, with special focus on European High North.   Participants of forum were many and diverse. Lapland Chamber of Commerce had a huge role during the forum both in presenting their speeches as well hosting panels. There were ambassadors to Finland from USA and Canada as well as counsellor of Chinese Embassy in Finland.…Read more

On Thursday morning 31.3. , class C121 received influential quests from Kaunas Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts , Vytautas Magnus Universitetas ,  G.G. Eurosuccess Consulting LTD.  , Lapin Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy  , European University Cyprus  and Universita Degli Studi Di Verona  . Quests came in order to hold a two-day seminar for discussing the best methods of developing skills and competences for higher education graduates to find their place in labor market. Opening day After settling down and introduction of the agenda by KCCIC, members of each organization presented their findings on country-specific…Read more

International Culture Club took place in auditorium at University of Lapland campus in 4.3.2016. It was the first event in the series of planned visits to school campuses in order for more teachers and students to join in discussion in hopes of making participation culturally diverse. Screen projector, unlike previous times, there were a few presentations to showcase InnoBarentsLab organization, an ongoing project Give Back to Lapland and an example of entrepreneurship. Welcoming speech was held by project leader Medo Aljanahi, mentioned the importance of breaking the ice among international community. It was…Read more