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Jonas Karlsbakk

Jonas Karlsbakk
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Jonas has been working for the Norwegian Barents Secretariat since 2008. He has a Masters Degree in Geography from NTNU in Trondheim from 2003. Between 2003 and 2008 he worked as a journalist in the local newspaper in Kirkenes, Sør-Varanger Avis.

Content by Jonas Karlsbakk

North-Norway's new man i Brussels

Trond Haukanes from Finnmark is going to be North-Norway’s connecting link to Brussels in the years to come, as the new head of the North-Norway European office.

September 03, 2013

Jörgen is digging for iron ore again

After half a year with financial difficulties for Northland Resources, their situation is solved in a € 240 million rescue plan. Last week machine operator Jörgen Norman and his colleagues could finally start up their giant diggers in northern Sweden again.

June 18, 2013

BarentsObserver designer: Entrepreneur of the year

HAPARANDA: Yngve Bergheim at Ramsalt Lab, the agency which developed BarentsObserver’s new innovative design,is the Barents Entrepreneur of the year and the Barents Young Entrepreneur. The prestigious awards are given by IKEA’s founder, Ingvar Kamprad.

June 11, 2013

More cooperation on rescue operations

KIRKENES:We want an even closer cooperation with Russia on search and rescue operations, says Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg after watching a rescue operation outside Kirkenes together with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

June 05, 2013

Calls for regional focus

“An even more active regional level in the Barents cooperation will be of high importance for the future of this region”, says Rune Rafaelsen from the Norwegian Barents Secretariat

May 31, 2013

BarentsObserver presents northern diversity

BarentsObserver is today launching the web documentary borderstories.no with filmmaker Trine Hamran. She thinks all the different voices of the north should have a say on the future of the region.

May 27, 2013

Arctic Council´s international breakthrough

KIRUNA: The decision to invite six new nations as observers in the Arctic Council lifts the status of this forum to a new level, says Norway´s foreign minister Espen Barth Eide.

May 15, 2013

The Arctic is pushed north

By 2100 the climate in the Nordic countries could be similar to what we see in France today, and seasonal variations might be almost gone in parts of northern-Europe, says researcher Hans Tømmervik.

May 08, 2013

Protests against media control

APATITY: “More than ever before we need to set a strong focus on the challenges for Russian media when it comes to press freedom and freedom of speech”, says Arne Egil Tønseth, Chairman of Barents Press Norway.

April 30, 2013

Spektakel break in 2014

10 Barents Spektakel festivals in a row in Kirkenes calls for a one year festival break for the organizers in the art curator group “Pikene på Broen”. The next festival will probably be held in the winter of 2015.

April 25, 2013