The last newsletter of the year 2024 is out! INQ team would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy holiday season!
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Offered in winter 2025 by Institut nordique du Québec, under the aegis of its training committee, this practical Inuktitut course is designed to introduce participants to the language of the Inuit of Nunavik. Registration is now open!
The Forum on the Future of Institut nordique du Québec, held on December 18, 2024 at the Monastère des Augustines in Quebec City, marked an important step in the process of developing the next INQ Strategic Plan 2025-2030.
In 1958, everyone in Salluit lived in an igloo," recalls André Casault, a professor at the School of Architecture at Laval University. In just two generations, the Inuit had to learn to live in immobile houses imported from the south.
In the Arctic, climate change is synonymous with thawing permafrost, a phenomenon that Frédéric Bouchard observes and measures on the ground and from the air.
In southern Quebec, we turn on the tap and watch the wastewater go down the drain without question. Not so in Nunavik, where permafrost prevents the construction of water and sewer systems. At home, questions arise not only about drinking water management, but also about water quality, as Stéphanie Guilherme, professor in the Department of Civil and Water Engineering at Université Laval, explains.
Read the INQ newsletter, May 2024 edition.
René Therrien has been appointed interim director of Institut nordique du Québec (INQ). Professor Therrien has a long-standing relationship with the INQ, having chaired its Implementation Committee from 2014 to 2019...
Before colonisation, the Inuit had their own system of social regulation, often mediated by elders or family providers. Even today, various informal mechanisms help maintain social order, such as denouncing a person's misbehavior on community radio without naming him or her. But with colonisation, Inuit have seen non-Inuit judges and police arrive to settle their disputes...
As part of its annual Symposium, INQ exhibited the photos submitted to the amateur photo contest launched early in 2024. The 200 Symposium participants were asked to vote for their favorite photo...
Congratulations to 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 who won the people's choice award in the My Northern Project science popularisation competition at Institut nordique du Québec's annual Symposium.
These three students took top honours in the scientific poster competition held on May 7 and 8 as part of Institut nordique du Québec's annual symposium...