EU funding research in Spitsbergen
The “Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System” (SIAEOS) projekt is designed to understand environment and climate with their components land, sea, ice and atmosphere. EU will fund this project with initially 400 Millionen NOK (ca. 43 million Euro) and subsequently 70 Millionen NOK (almost 8 million Euro) annually.
Important part of the scientific infrastructure in Spitsbergen: the EISCAT-radar near mine 7 in Adventdalen.

Source: UNIS
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