UArctic International Secretariat has a new team member, Janette Peltokorpi, who started in September 2021 as the new Director of Governance and Finance Support.

The Executive Organizing Committee for the Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) 2022 is seeking community input, in the form of brief statements, that will help guide discussions during the AOS Thematic Working Group sessions.

On the occasion of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, jointly organized by Harbin Institute of technology, IASS Working Group21 and UArctic, the International Ice and Snow Innovation Design and Construction Competition is committed to accelerating discipline integration, promoting cultural exchanges and deepening academic...

On Sept 14th, the founding partners for the Thematic Network on Bioregional Planning for Resilient Rural Communities hosted a webinar to celebrate the network's kick off.

The GRISCO research project invites communities near Disco Bay, Greenland to co-produce knowledge with scientists on a socially, culturally, ecologically, and economically sustainable design of ice sheet conservation of Greenland’s glaciers for helping slow down the global sea-level rise.

Following up on their spring film screening, Yáa at Wooné, the Canadian Studies Center and partners across campus are bringing together representatives from the Tlingit and Heiltsuk Nations, as well as experts in tribal law and natural resource management from both British Columbia and Alaska, to discuss the state of Pacific...

In an interview by the HSE University, Igor Makarov, Head of the HSE Laboratory for Economics of Climate Change at HSE University, speaks about the pressing problems Russia and the world are facing in relation to climate change, and the research HSE scholars are doing on the subject.

The International Mohn Prize for Outstanding Research Related to the Arctic (The Mohn Prize) has been established in collaboration by Academia Borealis The Academy of Sciences and Letters of Northern Norway (NNVA), Tromsø research foundation (TFS) and UiT The Arctic University of Norway (UiT). The prize amounts to 2 million N...

Nord University Business School is currently looking to recruit a new research fellow / PhD candidate within the area of risk and emergency management. The position is a part of a research project on risk awareness and risk evaluation in the Arctic sea areas aimed at emergency management and coordination in complexity.

The pace at which the western world moves is at odds with the pace of nature, says Evon Peter. “We have to be communicating across the Circumpolar North so that we can better understand the challenges we collectively face, and find solutions and understanding that can help guide us forward in a way that provides for a sustain...

University of Arctic’s thematic network Arctic Sustainable Art and Design arranges annually a Living in the Landscape (LiLa) course that brings together researchers, lecturers and MA and PhD students from different disciplines to learn from each other in the art-based study of Arctic environments, communities and landscapes....

When: Monday 15 November 2021, 10:00-16:00 (EET)Venue: Hybrid (Santa Claus Hotel and online)  

The Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) of the Arctic Council, the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) will offer the inaugural SDWG-IASSA-IASC Fellowship to encourage an early career scholar to participate in and contribute to the work of the...

The theme of the 14th Polar Law Symposium is “The Blue Earth, from the Poles, through the Law.” The event has both online and physical participation and runs from November 21-23, 2021

The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources has announced two openings for researchers respectively in the Department of Fish and Shellfish and The Greenland Climate Research Centre (GCRC).