Finland has said that the next iteration of its Arctic policy will take a long-term perspective on the region by pushing for economic development that does not capitalize on the effects of global warming, strengthening the Arctic Council and other institutions and linking its strategy for the region to its national goal of be...

The Calotte Academy 2020 is planned to be organized on 31 May – 7 June (tbc.) 2020 in the European Arctic — Enontekiö and Inari, Finland; Kautokeino, Kirkenes and Svanvik, Norway; and Apatity and Nikel, Russia. 

On February 20-21,  4th International Arctic Summit “Arctic and offshore projects: prospects, innovations and development of regions” (Arctic - 2020 St. Petersburg) was held in St. Petersburg.

An open seminar on Indigenous Education will discuss educational contexts of indigenous people in Greenland, Canada and Australia. The second part of the seminar includes the launch of the international book Indigenous postgraduate education: Intercultural perspectives. 

The Fulbright Arctic Initiative will bring together professionals, practitioners, and researchers from the United States, Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark including Greenland and the Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden for group seminars and an individual Fulbright exchange to address key research and po...

The EU-H2020 funded INTERACT (International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic) opens a call for research groups to apply for Trans-national Access to 10 new research stations offering TA in INTERACT III.

Over 80 participants attended the first Meeting of the Assembly of UArctic which was held in Copenhagen, February 25 & 26, 2020.

The Future of the Arctic Human Population: Migration in the North Conference takes place in Rovaniemi, Finland on 28–29 May 2020. This will be the first ever conference on (im)migration in the cap of the north that is a part of series of activities of UArctic Thematic network on Arctic Migration.

On the 10th of February 2020, the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM) at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, in cooperation with the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law, hosted a half-day seminar titled: Infrastructure Development and Sustainable Use of the Arctic Ocean. The seminar was...

What would you do if you were in charge? The Arctic Youth Network has partnered with the UArctic Congress 2020 to bring together a panel to participate in a plenary session on youth: how youth see the future of the Arctic, what they think should be done, and how they would do it were they in a position of power.

The first in a series of three summer schools, the "Global Arctic" summer school aims to show how the Arctic and the rest of the world is connected, and how globalization, climate change and transboundary pollution shapes science, commerce, security and geopolitics.

The winter school hosted by the Harbin Institute of Technology in collaboration with the UArctic-HIT Training Centre united 100 international students from 25 countries for a week of lectures from January 5-12, 2020.

On February 7, a delegation of the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Norway arrived at the Kola Science Senter on an official visit. The Consul General of the Kingdom of Norway in Murmansk, Mr. Erik Svedahl, arrived accompanied by Consul Mrs. Torunn Hasler, public relations coordinator Maria Salikova, and economic and busin...

Travel funding via IASSA and APECS is available for early career researchers in Arctic social sciences, Indigenous Arctic experts of all backgrounds and career stages, and scholars from remote Arctic communities. The 10th International Congress for Arctic Social Sciences is organized June 15-19, 2020 in Arkhangelsk, Russia.

The Arctic Permafrost Research Center at Norilsk State Industrial Institute invites you to participate in the II International scientific and technical conference "Experience and prospects of construction and operation of buildings and structures on permanently frozen soils", which will be held in Norilsk on April 2, 2020.