Polar Connect highlighted at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik
The session “Digitizing the Arctic – Science and Industry Synergies” was held at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik on October 19, 2024. Jørgen Qvist, Katarina Gårdfeldt and Julia Muchowski presented the Polar Connect initiative (which includes North Pole Fiber). The topics covered during the session were: The session was very well attended, and there […]
Arctic connectivity as research infrastructure for scientific observations
Nordic and international researchers are keen to equip the future Polar Connect fibre optic submarine communication cable through the Arctic Ocean with sensors to support a range of scientific fields. Marine wildlife, earthquakes, and changes in the heat content of our oceans are just three examples of topics which can be studied by equipping a […]
North Pole Fiber Project Finds New Opportunities at the CEF Digital Community Event
On 17th October 2024 the Polar Connect team attended the first CEF Digital Community Event in Brussels. Per Nihlén and Lisa Olsson, from Sunet, and Valter Nordh and Ieva Muraskiene, from NORDUnet, represented the North Pole Fiber Project. The CEF Digital Community Event was organised by the European Commission, in collaboration with HaDEA, and brought […]
Invitation: Opportunities for a long-term Arctic Observatory using Submarine Cables (Webinar)
💡 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁, 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻! 𝗟𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱!📅 7 October 2024, 2:00PM CEST👉 https://nordu.net/PC_0710 👈 The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat has the pleasure of inviting you to a webinar on Polar Connect. The goal of Polar Connect is to build a submarine cable system between Northern Europe and East Asia, equipped with […]
NPF presented at NORDUnet Conference 2024: Spotlight on upcoming Polar Connect Webinar
Lisa Olsson’s lightning talk in Bergen on September 10 reached the audience effectively while offering a spotlight on NPF’s upcoming webinar event. Lisa Olsson, Project Coordinator at Sunet attended the yearly NORDUnet Conference on 10-12 september 2024 in Bergen, Norway. In her lighting talk she promoted the upcoming Polar Connect webinar event for engagement with […]
Attendance at the Submarine Data Cables Conference
The North Pole Fiber Project was presented at the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) in Berlin on 2 July 2024. Earlier this summer, the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) in Berlin arranged the conference “Submarine Data Cables – Strengthening the Lifelines of the Digital World”. The invited speakers and panels […]
NPF presented in plenary talk at leading international conference on submarine cable connectivity
For both technical and political reasons, the timing is right for building submarine cables connecting Northern Europe to East Asia through the Arctic Ocean. This was the key message when Erik-Jan Bos, Senior Advisor at NORDUnet, addressed the Submarine Networks EMEA conference in London at the end of May 2024. The conference is the leading […]
SMART Cables: Sensing the Deep Arctic Ocean
The North Pole Fiber project, co-funded by the European Commission under the CEF-2 Digital program, prepares the ground for the global “Polar Connect”. The overall goal is to revolutionize data connectivity between the Europe and East Asia using a fiber optic cable on the shortest possible path. An important part of the project investigates how […]
Kick off meeting January 2024
In January 2024 the first meeting of the North Pole Fiber Project was held in Stockholm, Sweden. The NPF project team from the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat (SPRS) and NORDUnet came together to discuss and coordinate the work of the project. Magnus Friberg, Senior Advisor and Research engagement at the Swedish […]
