
Polar Connect represented at the first Forum for the Arctic and Antarctic in Kiruna
On November 6-7, researchers, authorities and actors from civil society gathered in Kiruna for the Forum for the Arctic and Antarctic. In the session News from the Swedish platforms for

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

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

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

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 “Polar Connect”. 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