About NOR
Nordic Council for Reindeer Husbandry Research (NOR),
- was founded in 1980 and is now formally under the auspices of Nordic Council of Ministers (http://www.norden.org/) with regulations from 2003.
- membership includes Finland, Norway and Sweden.
- is economically sustained by the Ministries of Agriculture in the member countries.
NOR actively promotes contact between reindeer husbandry and the research community within the Nordic countries and between the Nordic researchers themselves. NOR offers publishing possibilities for scientific results, and provides information from other sources concerning reindeer from the Nordic countries involved. NOR also opens contacts to scientists elsewhere working on topics of relevance to reindeer husbandry. NOR’s work includes both natural and social sciences.
NORs main strategies are:
- create meeting places for science and reindeer husbandry/industry,
- publish the scientific journal Rangifer and organise regular Nordic meetings,
- be information source about the reindeer industry in the Nordic area and also about the activities and work done by NOR,
- distribute travel grants to Nordic researchers, and Ph.D. and Masters students, which are studying reindeer or reindeer husbandry,
- be information source for reindeer/reindeer husbandry projects, and obscure scientific literature,
- contribute to literature and information dissemination among the Nordic countries,
- improve research contacts (between researchers and their institutions) to promote co-operative projects and facilitate financial support.
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