June 1, 2018
The PGI delegation took part in the working meeting of the ASTRA project coordinators – «The Arctic Space Training»

The PGI delegation took part in the working meeting of the ASTRA project coordinators – “The Arctic Space Training”, held at the University of Oslo and devoted to the organization of summer and winter scientific schools.

On the working meeting the work on the project documents was discussed. The Polar Geophysical Institute was represented as the leading Russian partner institute of the project, taking part in the organization of summer and winter scientific schools. Also with the coordinators and participants of the project it were discussed the organizational issues concerning the students visit of the summer school to the PGI Observatory in Barentsburg in August 2018 and the students visit of the winter school to PGI (Apatity) in March 2019. Together with the project coordinators, a work plan and a training program for these activities were drawn up, a budget plan for the winter school into PGI was defined, and requirements for the substantive and financial reporting documentation of the project were discussed.