University of Lapland (Finland), in cooperation with the Model Arctic Council Thematic Network, will host a Model Arctic Council 2018 in October 29 November 2, 2018 in Rovaniemi, Finland.

Applications are invited from highly qualified and motivated applicants to take up a new PhD scholarship opportunity in the Department of Anthropology in the School of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen. The online application must be completed by 16 May 2018.

The UiT the Arctic University of Norway invite applications from early career researchers within the field of International Relations and Political Science for a Marie Skƚodowska Curie individual fellowship (MSCA-IF). This full-time, 24-month fellowship will be located at UiT the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway.

The Arctic Circle Secretariat is now accepting proposals for Breakout Sessions at the Arctic Circle Assembly to be held October 19-21, 2018, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Submissions will be accepted until 25 May, 2018.

Laval University is encouraging interested students to apply for the Sentinel North International School: Shedding Light on Arctic Marine Ecosystem Services. The school will be held July 12-24 in Baffin Bay, Nunavut aboard the CCGS Amundsen Icebreaker. The application deadline is 28 January, 2018.  

A group of international academics has nominated the Arctic Council for the Nobel Peace Prize. Sixty signatories, among them members of the UArctic Thematic Network on Geopolitics and Security, from over 20 different countries submitted their nomination letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Sunday.

The Russian-British workshop took place at Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, UK. This event was organized by UArctic research office within the project “Development of the UK-Russia Arctic Research and Collaboration Network” to deepen existing links between educational and research institutions in both countries. 

The University of Turku has high quality programmes covering a wide range of topics from exact sciences to broader and more general fields of study. Applications are open until January 31st, 2018.

Northern (Arctic) Federal University invites you to participate in the expedition project "Arctic Floating University 2018". Arctic Floating University was established in 2012 to unite science and education on the territory of the Arctic region and its objectives are to preserve the Arctic environment and to ensure the sustai...

The Nenets Agrarian Economic Technical School invites teaching staff and students to take part in a scientific conference  "Science. Vocational education. Production". The conference will be held on February 8, 2018 in Naryan-Mar, Russia.

The Arctic region is like a real-time laboratory for climate change – the sensitive northern climate reacts first to changes and foreshadows changes to come elsewhere in the world. This is why Arctic research is important. The results of such research have already brought changes for the better.

The Arctic Funders Collaborative (AFC), in partnership with the Tamalpais Trust and Tides Canada Foundations, invite Expressions of Interest from next generation Indigenous leaders to serve as Advisors. These Advisors will design and lead the new Arctic Indigenous Fund.

Special issue editors for the Journal of Ecotourism have issued a call for papers on Sustainable Indigenous Tourism. The submission deadline is March 31, 2018.

Inuit student Chaim Andersen of Memorial University of Newfoundland took the Chemistry Outreach program to her hometown of Nain, Labrador to showcase relevance of chemistry in traditional Inuit life and culture.

The International Conference on Emerging Contaminants is a biennial conference series that has provided an excellent forum for presenting the latest research on all aspects related to emerging contaminants across all environmental compartments since 2007. The event will take place in Oslo, Norway from June 25-28th, 2018.