This year’s Korea Arctic Academy (KAA) had a very diverse program, spanning from lectures on Arctic policy, climate change and educational challenges in the Arctic. A report from Paul Markusson, Vice President Mobility, UArctic.

The Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College invites applications for a PhD fellowship to study the impact of impurities and stress state on the deformation of polycrystalline ice. This position will be located in Hanover, New Hampshire.

To stimulate academic research and to strengthen cultural exchanges and promote academic cooperation in snow and ice architecture HIT, UArctic and the IASS Working Group 21 have organized the 2019 HIT International Ice and Snow Architecture Innovation Design and Construction Competition.  

10th Northern Political Economy Symposium will be organized on 14-15 November 2019 in Rovaniemi, Finland. The symposium is organized by the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland. Symposium is the side event for the Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit Conference 2019, which will take place on 12-13 November 2019.

The Arctic Awareness Week consists of the international symposium “Arctic Connections: A trust-building Arctic cooperation on Energy, Security and Blue Economy” (October 1) and the youth event "ZeroHackathon: Oceans and Polar Connections" (October 2-4).

The conference "HEALTH AS A RESOURCE: V2.0" will be held September 26-27, 2019, at the Faculty of social sciences, Nizhny Novgorod state university named after N.I. Lobachevsky, Russia.

The One Arctic - One Health report is a summary of the Finnish activities and achievements in the One Arctic - One Health project during the Finnish Chairmanship of the Arctic Council. 

DTU Byg (department of Technical University of Denmark) announces one or more 3-year PhD position(s), funded under the research project "ABC - Arctic Building Practice". The project investigates Arctic construction practice in a broad sense, based in Greenland. Application deadline: September 15, 2019.

The successful applicant may be appointed to a permanent full professorship or a fixed-term associate/assistant professorship (tenure track) depending on qualifications and career stage. The position is full-time. Application deadline: September 15, 2019. 

Call for Papers for Arctic Week 2019, which will take place from 9 to 13 December 2019 at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (Paris, France) under the chairwomanship of Ségolène Royal and Alexandra Lavrillier. 

The Arctic Frontiers Science 2020 conference invites abstracts for the conference and paper contributions for a Springer book volume. The conference will convene 28-30 January 2020 in Tromsø, Norway.

The 5th biennial Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) with the theme "Observing for Action" will be held March 31–April 2, 2020 as part of the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2020 in Akureyri, Iceland. Community input and perspectives for AOS are now invited in the form of white papers and short statements (deadline Oct 18, 2019). 

The successful candidate is expected to develop a PhD project on diet assessment of selected small pelagic, sympagic and benthic invertebrates in a seasonal perspective using molecular tools. Applications for this full-time, four-year position are due August 1, 2019.

The Northern Sustainable Development Forum will be launched in the city of Yakutsk, September 24 -28, 2019. From this year on, the Forum is an annual event and is aspiring to become one of the main collaborative grounds for solving and discussing challenges and possible perspectives of sustainability in the North/Arctic regions.

Arranged on June 12, 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden, the Climate Culture Conference was the first ever Tandem Cultural Dialogues conference, an annual current situation and future scenario analysis which seeks to explore the future at the intersection of arts and science.