Universities Partnering in the BRIDGE Project – Collaboratively Achieving Common Goals TERESA CHEN Universities partnerships bring academic communities and related stakeholders together to share vast knowledge and skills, and gain from such diverse collaborations. For effective outcome of partnerships mutual understanding of goals, objectives and processes is a prerequisite. This in effect means having appropriate knowledge of partners involved with the common understanding of sustainable gains and tackling any challenges that may arise on the way. (Mehling & Kolleck 2019.) With similar resolve the BRIDGE project set out to benefit from a cross-border collaboration involving the partners from across the Kolarctic region: UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Murmansk Arctic State University (MASU), Petrozavodsk State University and ITMO University St. Petersburg from Russia, and Lapland University of Applied Sciences in Finland.
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