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Umea's
Marta -
player of the year 2007
Umea's Brazilian star Marta was the best of the women
The
star of Swedish side Umea remains as enthralled as ever with the Gala,
this despite making her fourth consecutive appearance at the event.
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Goldminers has decided to apply for listing on the Oslo Stock
Exchange.
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The Goldarea in Västerbotten |
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Lappland Goldminers AB is an exploration
company with the goal of becoming a producing mining company.
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The Forest Technology |
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The Forest Technology Cluster increases
competitiveness on the international market.The
County of Västerbotten in northern Scandinavia is a world-leader in the
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Building a world-class
railway
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The Bothnia Line is the biggest railway
project of modern times in Sweden. It is a single-track railway being
laid from the bridge over Ångermanälven, north of Kramfors airport, via
Örnsköldsvik, Husum, Nordmaling, to Umeå. This new railway will be 190
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Welcome to Norrlandsförbundet
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Norrlandsförbundet
is a lobby organisation, with approximately 6 000 members, that operates
in issues related to the northern part of Sweden, i.e. the five
northernmost counties; Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Västernorrland, Jämtland
and Gävleborg.
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Umeå - Capital of
Culture 2014
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Umeå aims to be the
European Capital of Culture 2014. The objective of this venture is to
step by step, year by year, strengthen and develop Umeå´s cultural
profile.
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Mountain hiking and fishing
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Join us for a long weekend with fishing and
mountain hiking in southern...
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Boat tour to Sami mountain home
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Start your mountain holiday with a day trip
by boat into the back country. Travel across a lake with mountains
on both sides in a Sami river boat to the Sami mountain home Geunja.
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3 million acres
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The County Administration administrates
government land above the cultivation limit in the County of Västerbotten,
an area that extends over nearly 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares).
This is roughly the equivalent of 2.5 million football pitches.
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Bildmuseet in
Umeå
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Contemporary art and
visual culture attract over 100,000 visitors annually to Bildmuseet, the
museum of Umeå University. Exhibitions of Swedish and international
art, photojournalism, design, architecture and scientific imagery
combine present-day perspectives with historical investigations.
Ethics and aesthetics, art and society, the global and the local,
creativity and human living conditions are central to Bildmuseet’s
program
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Susan
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Guest
professor at the
Academy of Fine Arts
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Two of these positions
are focused on Fine Arts. These positions require experience of artistic
work in an international context and are primarily related to artistic,
technical and theoretical tutoring at the Bachelor and Master levels.
Over three years, the guest professors can apply for funding a combined
research and teaching project through the academy.
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27,000
students at the university!
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All
of us working or studying at Umeå University are driven by a thirst for
knowledge. There are about 27,000 students and 3,900 staff at the
university.
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Workforce in Västerbotten
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Access to highly-trained and skilled labor
is good in Västerbotten. University education exists in Umeå,
Skellefteå, and Lycksele.
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Motor for the country’s
development
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The Umeå region and Sweden’s three
largest cities are driving the entire country’s development according
to the West Sweden Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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Certification of building products for export to Japan
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SP, the Swedish National Testing and
Research Institute, has been approved by the Japanese ministry MLIT to
carry out the entire testing and approval process in Sweden regarding
levels of formaldehyde in building materials intended for the Japanese
market.
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