According to new research of the UArctic Chair Jeffrey Welker and co-authors, the High Arctic has the most extreme conditions of the Northern Hemisphere, with areas such as Svalbard, having total darkness, “Polar Night” lasting for over 60 days each winter, reaching temperatures as low as -40C/-40F.  These extreme winter cond...

Applications are invited for two vacant junior researcher positions at the University of Lapland, in the doctoral programme of Communities and Changing Work. These two fixed-term positions will be filled from January 1, 2019.

The Thematic network on Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity in Education and the UNITWIN/UNESCO network concerning Indigenous Languages in Urbanized areas captivated the audience at UArctic Congress 2018 side event.

Arctic Arts Summit 2019 - The Arctic as a Laboratory for sustainable art and cultural policy June 4 - 5, 2019, Rovaniemi, Finland.

Thematic Network on Arctic Health and Well-being announces One Arctic – One Health Conference 2019 to happen in Oulu, 7-9 February 2019.

The Arctic5 along with the Thematic Network on Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity in Education work to enhance teacher education for equality and social justice in the arctic region. 

UArctic Thematic Network UArctic World Ensemble (UWE) holds a concert at the Harstad Kulturhus in Harstad, Norway. The concert will take place Thursday November 15 at 18:00 (UTC+1), in Lillesalen. The concert is free of charge.

We are pleased to announce the dates for the 22nd meeting of the Council of UArctic, to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, from September 18 to 20, 2019. We welcome  member representatives to the Council of the University of the Arctic to participate. 

Youth visitors from Northern regions of Russia and Japan gathered to listen, learn and present projects on what effect climate change has on the biodiversity of their region. Youth Eco-Forum is part of the Northern Forum.

The TN in Northern Tourism has organised the filed course in collaboration between University of Lapland (Multidimensional Tourism Institute) and Partnership for Sustainability: Arctic Tourism in Times of Change-project. Date of the coming course: October 29 –November 2, 2018 Place: Rovaniemi, Finland

Journal of Tourism Futures (JTF) calls for papers for a special issue “The Future of Polar Tourism”. The submission of abstracts deadline is October 22, 2018.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law is pleased to announce a call for papers in order to publish at the Current Developments in Arctic Law, Volume 6 (2018).

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), an Arctic Council working group, has published their assessment for 2018, concerning the acidification of the Arctic Ocean. Available from the 10th of October. See full press release here.

This OpenEd Resource provides accessible content on health and health care from a northern perspective for the growing number of health professionals being educated in northern communities.

Janus Drejer from Aalborg University in Denmark has been working as an intern at the Thematic Networks and Research Liaison Office, Thule Institute at the University of Oulu, for two months. He has now joined the UArctic Secretariat at University Lapland, where he will stay for three months.