Through COFUND, the EU provides organisations established in the EU or associated countries with additional financial support for new or existing regional, national and international training programmes. The deadline for submission of proposals is September 26, 2019.

Call for projects addressing at least two of the following three areas of science: Life science; Physical Sciences & Engineering; Social Sciences and Humanities. Deadline November 13, 2019.

The Institute of Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) of University of Helsinki recently welcomed Prof. Lassi Heininen as the expert in environmental politics. To strengthen the transdisciplinary efforts, the two UArctic thematic networks, UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Boreal Hub led by INAR and UArctic Thematic...

Greenland Science Week is a multidisciplinary Greenlandic Arctic science conference surrounded by research-related workshops and public outreach. It builds bridges between science and the Greenlandic society, business community and government, and creates a networking and cooperation platform.

UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Boreal Hub has published a newsletter, Issue #09 - June 2019.

The five-month GEST programme is designed for professionals from government and non-governmental institutes, as well as for enthusiastic post-graduate students. For the spring semester 2020, GEST will for the first time accept two fellows from the Arctic region. Nominations are due June 30, 2019.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher to study one or more of the inter-related research areas of knowledge co-production and boundary spanning assessment related to climate change in Alaska. Application review begins 8 July 2019.

The International Mohn Prize for Outstanding Research Related to the Arctic carries a cash award of 2 million NOK (approximately 210 000 €) and is awarded biennially. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2019.

The book Sámi Early Childhood Education Now—Values, Practices and Participation in Everyday Life is intended to provide knowledge and inspiration for those involved in early childhood education and later education.

Two areas are covered: Rare disease registries for the European Reference Networks and Stakeholder actions to implement the EU guidelines on prudent use of antimicrobials in human health. The deadline for submission is September 10, 2019.

The newsletter of UArctic Thematic Network on Teacher Education and UNESCO/UNITWIN Network on Teacher Education collects all the information on current, past and upcoming activities of the networks. 

North Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk is hosting Arctic Summer School-2019, July 29 to August 15, 2019.

The University of Akureyri is accepting applications for the Nansen visiting professorship based on a cooperation between the governments of Iceland and Norway.

A special issue of the 2019 Synnyt Journal, edited by Maria Huhmarniemi, Timo Jokela and Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja, has been published. The volume includes articles from around the Circumpolar North and encourages discourse about the role of art in the development of the Arctic.

The investment of $4.5 million in UArctic is part of a larger $28.7 million Canadian federal government commitment to the Arctic to support Canada at the Arctic Council, the Sustainable Development Working Group, permanent participation capacity and youth engagement.