10-11 November 2016, Northern (Arctic) Federal University (Russia, Arkhangelsk) held a seminar on project management in the framework of UArctic Days organized by the University of the Arctic Research Office.

The biannual Arctic conference “Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit” will be held next time on 14–16 November 2017 in Lappia Hall, Hallituskatu 11, 96100 Rovaniemi.

The organizers of POLAR2018 are accepting session proposals for the joint SCAR and IASC Open Science Conference “Where the Poles meet“, which will be held on 19-23 June 2018 in Davos, Switzerland.

Three travel grants available for a multi-disciplinary workshop at the 2017 Ninth International Congress on Arctic Social Sciences in Umeå, Sweden for early career scientists and traditional indigenous knowledge holders. Complete applications should be sent to by December 14th 2016.

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) has announced the second call for the International Conference on Arctic Science: Bringing Knowledge to Action April 24-27, 2017 Reston, Virginia, USA.The deadline for abstracts submission has been prolonged to December 1, 2016.

On November 6, representatives of three UArctic member institutions met in Yakutsk, Russia.

Karol Kowalski from the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi (Finland) took part in the north2north visit at the Aarhus University in Denmark.

The call for applications is open until 18th December 2016 for transnational access taking place between March 2017 and April 2018.

The Model Arctic Council 2017-2018, organized under the Finnish Chairmanship of the Arctic Council (2017-2019), will consist of one or two simulations, depending on the level of interest expressed among the member universities of the UArctic.

The University of Akureyri is accepting applications for the Nansen visiting professorship or Nansen Research fellowship based on a cooperation between the governments of Iceland and Norway.       Apply by January 1, 2017.

Michael Sfraga, co-lead of the UArctic Institute for Arctic Policy, has been appointed as the new director of the Wilson Center’s revitalized Polar Initiative. The Wilson Center is the only think tank in Washington to house a broad-based initiative on the Arctic.

A Nordic University Hub is a long-term partnership between Nordic universities, universities of applied sciences and university colleges that forms a consortium which will provide a framework for expanding cooperation in the Nordic region. NordFrosk is now inviting Nordic universities to apply for funding. The deadline for th...

The Arctic Science Summit Week 2017 will be held in Prague, Czech Republic on 31 March – 7 April 2017. The ASSW 2017 Science Symposium is entitled "A Dynamic Arctic in Global Change".

Press release from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science.