On November 16, representatives of the indigenous peoples of the North of Russia will come to Moscow to participate in the international introductory course "Arctic Council and the role of Permanent participants". Officials of the Arctic Council will take part in the work. The seminar participants will get acquainted with the...

Year 2018 is remarkable for the Russian-Norwegian cross-border cooperation: the largest Arctic universities of the Barents region - the Northern (Arctic) Federal University in Arkhangelsk and UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø celebrate the 25th anniversary of regular academic collaboration. In the last days of Sep...

Thematic Network on Arctic Geology releases a webinar on “Processes that control the distribution of PGE among the minerals in Ni-Cu-PGE deposits of Sudbury, Canada”. For link to webinar click here.

VI International Arctic Legal Forum "Preservation and sustainable development of the Arctic: legal aspects" will take place in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, on November 29 - 30, 2018 and is jointly organised by the Government of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation...

The authors of five projects carried out at the Environmental Economics Department of the Research and Educational Center "INZHEK" of the Ural Federal University (with the support of the Transregional Civic Ecological Organization "Greenlife") became winners at the XI Regional Public Dialogue Forum "Cooperation for Sustainabl...

A new publication by the Danish Department of Science Counseling Group on Environment and Health, includes Christian Sonne-Hansen, Rune Dietz and Charlotte Hviids, publication regarding the holistic health issues of the Arctic wildlife and human life in the Arctic, “One Health” from Arctic Research Centre at Aarhus Universty.

Bifröst University and the Scientific Committee for the Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research, invite researchers to submit proposals for paper presentations for the Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research 2019 (NCCPR), held at Bifröst University in Iceland.

Gender Equality of the Arctic (GEA) issued a call for information and materials related to issues of gender, diversity and equality in the Arctic region. GEA is a project endorsed by the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG). Deadline for submission is December 7, 2018. For more information click here.

Registration is now open for the Arctic Circle Korea Forum, to be held December 7-8 at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul. Click here for registration.

A group of Danish engineering students from Aarhus University, have photographed a complete iceberg below the ocean surface, using an underwater robot they built themselves and reveal surprising new knowledge about icebergs.

The 4th annual Polar Cooperation Research Centre (PCRC) symposium on December 17-18, 2018 at Kobe University in Japan.

On December 6 2018, AAU Arctic hosts a Polar Research conference at the Aalborg University department in Copenhagen. The event includes lectures, panel debates and discussions, the conference also offers an opportunity to socialize and network both on sea and on land. For full program click here.

The leader of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Network on teacher education and the UArctic Thematic Network Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity in Education at the University of Lapland Tuija Turunen, visited the Deir Kifa high school in Lebanon on October 18, 2018. For full article click here.

An article in HighNorthNews written by Kathleen Stephen gives a summary of the UArctic Thematic Network on Geopolitics and Security session at the Arctic Circle 2018 in Iceland. Click here for full article.

UArctic Vice-President Organization Outi Snellman presented the UArctic Congress 2018 at the meeting of the Senior Arctic Officials of the Arctic Council on November 1, 2018. In her presentation, Ms Snellman focused on the UArctic Congress 2018 Declaration as a message from the circumpolar higher education community to the go...