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Europe's newest industrial megaprojects are relocating to the far north of Sweden – but are curling, wild reindeer and the northern lights enough to convince workers to follow?

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Tags: work, sweden.skelleftea, jobs, employees, communities, curling, workforce, migration, rural, manufacturing, northvolt, industry, factories.giga, population.growing, megaprojects, author.richard orange, source.the guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/sweden-north-green-jobs

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Title
Wanted: 100,000 pioneers for a green jobs Klondike in the Arctic
Authors
Richard Orange
Published
Nov 19 2021
Word count
1876 words

2 comments

  1. Eric_the_Cerise
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    Sweden is already on our short-list of countries to settle in (although, until now, we've been thinking southern Sweden) ... this makes it a more interesting prospect.

    Sweden is already on our short-list of countries to settle in (although, until now, we've been thinking southern Sweden) ... this makes it a more interesting prospect.

    4 votes
  2. nacho
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    An interesting part of this is also that there are battery factory-projects and similar in Northern Norway. They're competing for the same highly educated, specialized and international workers....

    An interesting part of this is also that there are battery factory-projects and similar in Northern Norway.

    They're competing for the same highly educated, specialized and international workers.

    This is an effective way of seeing what society on the whole is most attractive. The ways in which the neighboring countries have managed their northern areas and development in them is very different.

    3 votes