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.

The latest issue of our annual magazine, Shared Voices, is now available online. In the 2019 issue we explore the impact of UArctic – what kind of a change the past two decades of UArctic programs and collaboration have helped create.

The application process for the 2020 Labrador Institute International Indigenous Intern has started! Apply by July 26, 2019.

UArctic Research Chair, Professor Jeff Welker (University of Oulu & University of Alaska Anchorage) and colleagues from across the Arctic will be contributing to this monumental effort with their studies of the Arctic Water Isotope Cycle. 

In the 2019 Summit the challenges and circumstances in the Arctic are seen as 'laboratory' in which sustainable art and cultural policy is developed in collaboration with all of the Arctic counties. 

The Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit Conference (November 12–13, 2019 in Rovaniemi, Finland) focuses on climate change in the Arctic, especially from the viewpoint of young people and future generations. Abstracts for the five sessions are due August 23, 2019.