The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) announces the next Arctic Research Seminar Series event featuring Courtney Carothers (University of Alaska Fairbanks) and Laura Zanotti (Purdue University), to be held in the ARCUS D.C. office on Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 12:00-1:00 p.m. EST. This seminar will also be ava...

The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity Working Group of the Arctic Council, is seeking individuals and organizations to provide abstracts, organize sessions and submit posters that will encourage a dialogue on Arctic biodiversity at the Arctic Biodiversity Congress 2018. Deadline: March 30, 2018.

The 2017 Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit conference brings together academia, policy-makers and other stakeholders to discuss pressing Arctic issues and ways to build a sustainable future through circumpolar cooperation. Several UArctic representatives are also panelists or speakers in the conference and its side events.

Applications are invited for two vacant junior researcher posts at the University of Lapland, in the doctoral programme Northern Cultures and Sustainable Natural Resource Politics.These two fixed-term positions will be filled from 1 May 2018

The theme of the 2017 Relate North symposium and exhibition is "Art and Design for Education and Sustainability", emphasizing the collaboration between academic institutions, communities and business. The symposium takes place at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland on Nov 9-13, 2017.

From October 13 to October 19, 2017, the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Extractive Industries held a masters/Phd course in Iceland on the topic of Security, Governance and Geopolitics in relation to Arctic Extractive Industries. Florian Stammler (Arctic Centre, University of Lapland) of the network contributes this report...

Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia together with the North-Eastern Federal University invite you to take part in the scientific conference "Contemporary state and prospects of studies in languages, literature, and folklore of the indigenous peoples of the Russian North, Siberia, and the Far East" which is to be hel...

The five-day interdisciplinary event, taking place alongside the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø, Norway in January 2018, brings together students from across the world with interest in the Arctic. Bachelor and Master students from any field of study are invited to apply. Deadline: December 7, 2017.

Three specialised study tracks - land, sea and space - give you a unique understanding of working as an engineer in the Arctic, one of the most challenging areas of the world. The Nordic Master in Cold Climate Engineering welcomes applications until January 15, 2018.

UArctic President Lars Kullerud, along with Paul Arthur Berkman (Tufts University), Allen Pope (IASC) Alexander N. Vylegzhanin (MGIMO University) and Oran R. Young (University of California, Santa Barbara), have co-authored The Arctic Science Agreement propels science diplomacy that appears in the November 2017 issue of Scien...

The Horizon 2020 multiannual work programme for 2018-2020 has now been published. 

Do you want to take part in shaping and producing solutions to global and local challenges through the study of indigenous issues? UiT The Arctic University of Norway is one of the few in the world to offer an international Master's degree programme in comparative indigenous studies. Open for applications until December 1, 2017.

The Inaugural UArctic Reseach Chairship seeks postdoctoral researchers whom will be working with Professor Jeffery Welker and his research teams.

The international summer course on permafrost was arranged by the Thematic Network on Permafrost and held at the Reindeer Project Station near the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The booklet published by the Nordic Council of Ministers presents actions taken by the Nordic countries to speed the transition to a sustainable low-carbon society. It is available for download on the Norden website.