The State Administration Database

The University Centre in Svalbard

This page shows the event history for this unit.

18.01.1994 Regular founding

Name: The University Centre in Svalbard
Short name: UNIS
Affiliations: Fringe foundation
Hierarchical level: Highest level
COFOG 09 Education
Superior body: University of Tromsø
Main affiliation category: National single organization (without subordinated units)
Located: 2111 Spitsbergen

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

29.11.2002 Change of name

Name: The University Centre in Svalbard
Short name: UNIS AS

29.11.2002 New superior organization and level

(The unit reports to a new superior organization and at the same time changes its form of affiliation/administrative level.)
Affiliations: Fully state owned limited company
Hierarchical level: Highest level
Procedure and documents for this change:

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.