The application period for the 2025 Saami Council’s cultural grants is open until November 1, 2024, at 23:59 (CEST).

UNESCO is pleased to announce that the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Routes of Enslaved Peoples programme will be held on Wednesday, 9 October, and Thursday, 10 October 2024, at UNESCO Headquarters.

The 2024 International Congress on Circumpolar Health (ICCH18) will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from Sunday, November 3 to Tuesday, November 5.

9.30am-5pm, 6 Nov at Middleton Hall, University of Hull. The Coast-R Network (https://www.ukcoastalresilience.org/) looks forward to welcoming colleagues from university, industry, government and the voluntary and community sectors to our launch event. Together we are building an inclusive and collaborative network to build k...

On September 20, 2024, U.S. Embassy Representatives from Helsinki arrived at the University of Lapland with Leo Michel, an expert in U.S. defense and foreign policy, to discuss transatlantic security and the upcoming U.S. elections.

The UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and Education organized a panel session at the 17th Polar Law Symposium 2024 at the Mid-Sweden University in Östersund, Sweden

Members of the Thematic Network on Ageing and Gender in the Arctic attended the CoE AgeCare (Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care) Summer School 2024, on August 19-20, 2024, in Valkeakoski, Finland.

Finnish Meteorological Institute is conducting two surveys to collect information (i.e. metadata) on in-situ data related to sea ice and snow, in order to prepare an inventory of in-situ datasets covering the Arctic and the Antarctica.

The Arctic Field Grant supports fieldwork for students and researchers collecting data in Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

The 12th National Seminar on Snow on the name day of Pyry (blizzard in Finnish) will be held the first time in Rovaniemi on October 31 - November 1, 2024.

Thematic Network on Sustainable Strategies for Waste Removal and Restoration of Arctic Mine Waste Areas, RAMWA, led by Roland Kallenborn, UArctic Chair in Arctic Environmental Pollution Research was accepted as a new Thematic Network at the UArctic Assembly in Bodø in June.

Two UArctic programmes, PermaIntern Program and SEDNA, were presented at the 77th GeoMontréal Conference.

Apply by December 2, 2024 for Polar Knowledge Canada's Student Awards and Scholarships. Applications are open to undergraduate, Master's, and Ph.D. students.

Many UArctic Thematic Networks, individuals with UArctic affiliation, and member institutions are organizing or involved in sessions at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavík on October 17-19. 

Nicole Bonnett, a PhD candidate from the University of Alberta, and member of the UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience, was awarded the highly competitive Steve and Elaine Antoniuk Graduate Scholarship in Arctic Research in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, for her work on managed relo...