The University Centre of the Westfjords in Ísafjörður, Iceland offers two programs in Coastal Studies open to students with diverse academic and professional backgrounds.

Aalborg University professor visits Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland) to network with key players on Arctic connectivity through the north2north staff mobility program.

The RISE scheme promotes international and cross-sector collaboration through exchanging research and innovation staff, and sharing knowledge and ideas from research to market (and vice-versa). The scheme fosters a shared culture of research and innovation that welcomes and rewards creativity and entrepreneurship and helps to...

Nord University High North Center for Business and Governance has opened nominations for the High North Hero Award, created to honor a person or an organization that has contributed to highlighting the importance of the Arctic.  The deadline for nominations is February 15, 2019.

ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

Polar climate: Understanding the polar processes in a global context in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions.

The Arctic Science Fellowship Program offers early career researchers from Arctic countries and researchers of Arctic indigenous heritage with an opportunity to cooperate with Korean Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) scientists for a duration of up to 3 months.  The deadline to apply is February 28, 2019.

The University of Oulu is continuing to build on their well-established track-record of being leaders in Arctic research with introduction of their new multidisciplinary Arctic Interactions (ArcI) research programme.   

Globally, glaciers and the large ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are particularly vulnerable to climate change, risking a significant future contribution to changes in sea levels. At present, there are significant uncertainties, e.g. relating to their stability, which prevent an accurate assessment of their vulnerabili...

Marjanah Sadiq from University of Helsinki completed her international internship on November 2018 at Ukhta State Technical University in Russia. Intership was part of Finnish National Agency for Education´s program Traineeship for Finnish students in Russian Higher Education Institutions.

Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Community Investment Program will be providing over $1 million to projects doing good things for and through the Canadian internet.  The application deadline is February 28, 2019.

The summer school at Hokkaido University is for advanced level undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled at the University of Lapland, University of Oulu and University of Helsinki. Approximately 15 students will be selected for the scholarship. Application deadline is February 28, 2019.

Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) is now accepting applications for their Asian Polar Science Fellowship Program.  The Asian Polar Science Fellowship Program consists of two categories: the Institute Visiting Program and the Field Research Program.  The deadline to apply is February 28, 2019.

Heidrun Knorr, an assistant professor from Aalborg University, visited Ilisimatursarfik/the University of Greenland in Nuuk to enhance her competencies in teaching in multicultural contexts with the north2north staff mobility program.

The United Nations declared 2019 The International Year of Indigenous Languages in order to raise awareness of them, not only to benefit the people who speak these languages, but also for others to appreciate the important contribution they make to our world´s rich cultural diversity.