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A brand new EURAXESS portal will be launched in two monhs. The portal will contain a lot of details on researcher mobility relevant to researchers moving between European countries, including the Faroe Islands.

A new research vessel has been built by the Faroese government and handed to the Faroe Marine Research Institute. The new research vessel has been named Jákup Sverri in honour of Jákup Sverri Joensen, the first marine biologist in the Faroe Islands and former director of the Faroe Marine Research...

    Heini í Skorini, Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Faroe Islands, is one of the authors of a new book analyzing the concept of blasphemy in various periods, countries and religious traditions.  The book examines both historical developments and contemporary...

A marine research programme funded by the Danish government – MARiNAO - has proved very successful in gaining new essential knowledge on the environment in the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe-Scotland Ridge. The subsea mountain ridge is considered a hotspot for climate change, even a possible tipping point...

Since the Faroese Immigration Office took over responsibility for immigration affairs in September 2024 significantly more foreign staff members have been employed at the University of the Faroe Islands. All applications for temporary and permanent residence and work permits for researchers and...

Karin Habermehl-Cwirzen is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Faroe Islands Karin Habermehl-Cwirzen is originally from Germany and has worked as a researcher in Finland and Sweden for several years before moving to the Faroe Islands. She holds a...

Ian Salter is a British researcher at the Faroe Marine Research Institute. He holds a PhD in Chemical Oceanography from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. He has worked as a researcher in France, United States, and Germany. Ian has lived in the Faroe Islands for 3 years. He is...

Hans-Georg Beyer holds a position as a Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Faroe Islands. He has a PhD in Physics from the University of Oldenburg. Hans-Georg Beyer has worked as a researcher in Norway, Brazil and France and has now been a researcher in the...

Ms Clara Ganslandt, Special Envoy for Arctic Matters at the European Union, visited the Faroe Islands recently. At a meeting with Ms Maria Húsgarð and Ms Dagmar Joensen-Næs from Research Council Faroe Islands options and challenges for the research cooperation between the Faroe Islands and the EU...

Ten research projects have been granted at total of 7.5 MDKK from the Faroese Research Foundation this year. Half the funding has been given to PhD projects. The Research Council received 34 applications in total, applying for 31 MDKK, at the annual deadline in February. The projects receiving the...