UArctic Council Meeting Excursion August 12th – August 14th 2017

Saturday 12th August 2017 Notes to the participants 12.08 - Saturday Arrival Sisimiut Participants transport themselves to their place of accommodation. There are taxis at the airport. 14:30 – 15:00 Welcome by the organizers (ARTEK and KTI) at KTI / Tech College You will be picked up at your Coffee / tea at Tech College Greenland accommodation place at 14:15. Wait for the bus outside of your accommodation 15:00 - 16.30 Round trip by bus in Sisimiut Guides: ARTEK, Mining school and local guide 16:30 Official Inauguration of the ARTEK House - new Sisimiut Campus

16:30 – 16:35 Welcome By Malik Berthelsen, Mayor of Qeqqata Kommunia, the municipality of Qeqqata 16:35 – 16:50 Opening speech Rector Anders Overgaard Bjarklev, DTU 16:50 – 17:05 ARTEK and Vision 125 Niels-Jørgen Aagaard, Head of Centre, Arctic Technology Centre, DTU 17:05 – 17:15 Sisimiut and the technical educations Jokum Møller, Rector, Tech College Greenland 17:15 – 17:25 Arctic Technology from a business perspective Brian Buus Pedersen, Chairman of the ARTEK Steering Committee 17:25 – 17:35 Being an Arctic Engineer in the Arctic Ujarak Rosing, chairman of the ARTEK Advisory Board 17:35 – 17:45 UArctic and capacity building in the Arctic Lars Kullerud, President, University of the Arctic (Uarctic) 17:45 – 17:55 The Greenlandic education strategy and the arctic engineering educations Head of Department Lone Nukaaraq Møller, Self-Government of Greenland 18:00 Opening of the reception 19:30 – 20:30 Dinner at the KTI canteen for UArctic guests for registered participants only no organized transport to return to place of accommodation.

Sunday 13th August 2017 Notes to the participants 08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast at the KTI canteen for registered participants only no organized transportation Culture and society in Sisimiut – presentations and hike through Sisimiut 9:00 – 10:30 Headlines of the since the 1950’ies By Niels Hoedeman. Meeting place : ARTEK House

The Greenlandic language no organized transportation By Carl Christian Olsen

Tourism from a local perspective By Annette Lings 3 hour extended guided city tour with societal and cultural focus.

10:30 – 11:00 Walking tour to the harbor

11:00 – 11:15 Fishing industry / hunting in the olden days and now by Leif Fontain, Association of Fishers and Hunters in Greenland ´s (KNAPK)

11:30 – 12:00 Kajak demo By Nic Ejsted, Sisimiut Kayak Club

12:00 – 12:30 Lunch – picnic in the field

12:30 – 13:00 Walking tour to the sled dog site

13:00 – 13:30 Life of a sled dog – stories about Sisimiut By Henning Frisk

13:30 – 16:00 Return to the harbor by bus and free time Transportation back to the harbor by bus

13:30 – 15:00 Arctic Environmental Engineering / Designing environmental technology solutions (optional) Optional part of the program By Gunvor Kirkelund and Pernille E. Jensen

16:00 – 17:00 Visit of local cultural and historic museum of Sisimiut – guided tour No organized transportation 19:00 - 23:00 Festive Dinner at Tech College Greenland No organized transportation

Monday 14th August 2017 8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast at the KTI canteen optional registration – for registered participants No organized transportation

10:00 Check-in at Arctic Umiaq Line in the harbor of Sisimiut. No organized transportation 11:00 If travelling by boat: Departure with Sarfaq Ittuk to (transport to the harbor on your own. NB. Transfer included when accommodated at the Seamen’s home. All meals incl. breakfast on Tuesday 15th can be bought onboard.

On board: UArctic meetings from 11.30-13.30.

11:25 Travelling by Plane: : Sisimiut to Nuuk (via Kangerlussuaq). No organized transportation

Tuesday 15th August 2017 07:30 Arrival in Nuuk. Official program of council meeting takes over.