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What does geopolitics look like from Northern Norway rather than Oslo? FNI researcher Iselin Nemeth Winther is starting a PhD to explore how geopolitical change and growing military activity are understood and experienced locally in the Arctic.

Norway has abundant renewable electricity, high incomes and ambitious climate targets. Yet the energy transition is exposing increasingly difficult choices over who gets access to power, who pays, which land is used and what can be implemented. Recent FNI research points to some of the tensions.

Russian activity around critical infrastructure, a rapidly changing Arctic Ocean and growing military cooperation in the High North dominated the third Arctic Security Conference, hosted by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo on 16 September.

Ten years after leaving Colombia, Viviana Meixner Vásquez is preparing to return with a new perspective and a new role: as a PhD researcher studying forests, food security and genetic resources in the Colombian Amazon.

Researchers from the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) will take part in sessions on Arctic security and geopolitics, China, critical minerals, shipping, ocean governance and European Arctic policy at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavík, 8–10 October.

2025 was a strong year for research at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, with 66 scientific publications, 66 research projects and several major new research projects.