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New multinational project will support hospitality, sustainable tourism, and land and fisheries management
The town of Ilulissat in western Greenland
Image: Nathan Reigner
Building sustainability and hospitality in Greenland
December 02, 2020
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Penn State has joined a new education partnership between organizations and universities in Greenland and the U.S. will work to build vocational education programs that support sustainable tourism, hospitality, and land and fisheries management in the Arctic nation.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Greenland Climate Research Centre at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (Pinngortitaleriffik) will lead the effort, called the Arctic Education Alliance. Other partners include Penn State, the University of Greenland (Ilisimatusarfik), the University of Southern Maine, and Victoria Qutuuq Buschman, the partnership’s Indigenous knowledge and conservation adviser. The U.S. Department of State will prov