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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.

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 Nihlรฉn and Lisa Olsson, from Sunet, and Valter Nordh and Ieva Muraskiene,

Invitation: Opportunities for a long-term Arctic Observatory using Submarine Cables (Webinar)
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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

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

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

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 โPolar Connectโ. The overall goal is to revolutionize data

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