ARTEK was established in 2000 to educate

Greenland Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...

ic and Danish students in Arctic Technology. In 2001, the first students started their education in

Sisimiut Sisimiut (), also known by its Danish name Holstensborg or Holsteinsborg, is the capital and largest city of the Qeqqata municipality, the second-largest city in Greenland, and the largest Arctic city in North America.The term 'city' is loos ...

, Greenland. The centre will be run by Sanaartornermik Ilinniarfik (the Building and Construction School) in Sisimiut and the

Technical University of Denmark The Technical University of Denmark (), often simply referred to as DTU, is a polytechnic university and school of engineering. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's first polytechnic, and it is today ran ...

(DTU) in

Kongens Lyngby Kongens Lyngby (, Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping street and the site ...

. ARTEK was originally the abbreviation for Arctic Technology Centre, but from 2019 the name ARTEK Campus Sisimiut is used to describe DTU's campus in Sisimiut.

International activities

In the later years, new and more international education opportunities have been added to the activities in Sisimiut. DTU's Arctic Semester was offered in Sisimiut for the first time in the spring of 2016, while the Nordic Master of Cold Climate Engineering was offered for the first time later the same year. Part of the Nordic Master in Cold Climate Engineering takes place in Sisimiut. The operation of ARTEK is a joint venture between KTI (Teknikimik Ilinniarfik/Tech College Greenland) in Sisimiut and DTU. ARTEK is funded by the

Government of Greenland The Naalakkersuisut or the Government of Greenland () is the chief executive body, the cabinet and the government of Greenland since the island became self-governing in 1979. As an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland is a p ...

, private foundations and DTU. ARTEK is an active member of the

University of the Arctic The University of the Arctic (UArctic) is an international cooperative network based in the Circumpolar Arctic region, consisting of universities, colleges, and other organizations with an interest in promoting education and research in the Arcti ...

. UArctic is an international cooperative network based in the Circumpolar Arctic region, consisting of more than 200 universities, colleges, and other organizations with an interest in promoting education and research in the Arctic region.

References

External links

Arctic Technology Centre
Universities in Denmark Arctic research Culture of the Arctic {{Arctic-stub