Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design (ASAD) thematic network has received funding from Nordic Council of Ministries and SIA to develop international research and educational Summer Schools 2017–2019. The Summer School initiative is called Living in the Landscape (LiLa).

A reminder of the upcoming deadline for submitting Paper and Poster abstracts to the Ninth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS IX) to be held at Umeå University, Sweden 8-12 June 2017. The deadline for submitting paper and poster abstracts is 16 January 2017

Staff and Faculty north2north exchange funding available from and to Danish, Greenlandic and Faroese to other north2north members of UArctic. Apply by February 15, 2017.  

Nadezda Filimonova from Russian State Hydrometeorological University is visiting Aarhus University, Thursday January 12th.

NOVA University network and UArctic Thematic Network on Sustainable Production and Foraging of Natural Products in the North joint PhD-course and workshop on “Invasive Pest Threats in the North” to be held in Finland in 2017.

This symposium will promote discussion and action in innovation in community based research and management for sustainable Indigenous tourism development in Canada. The 2 day event will take place April 12th - 13th 2017 at Vancouver Island University.

The organizer have the pleasure of inviting you to the High North Dialogue Conference, which takes place in Bodø, Norway, April 5–6, 2017.

The UArctic International Secretariat is welcoming a Danish intern from Aarhus this spring.

In 2017 a new research team for the Arctic Centre (University of Lapland) and a new UArctic Thematic Network in the field of Arctic migration might be established. Nafisa Yeasmin, researcher of the Arctic Centre and initiator of the network, explains why there is a need to create a cross-national group of scientists researchi...

The two-day conference (January 19-20, 2017, University of Helsinki, Finland) examines the concept of indigenous people as an international and global phenomenon, and the unique processes through which this concept is applied to, lived and translated for each local situation. Register by January 10.

In the new issue of the UArctic Russian newsletter, prepared by the Research Office in Arkhangelsk, Svetlana Gulyaeva, the Vice-rector on scientific work at Churapchinsky State Institute for Physical Education and Sport, shared her impressions on the first UArctic Congress and spoke about her future plans with UArctic.

UArctic wishes you all Season's Greetings! The International Secretariat will be closed until January 2.

In the new issue of the UArctic Russian newsletter, prepared by the Research Office in Arkhangelsk, Jargal Badagarov who is a leader of a new UArctic Thematic Network "Language documentation and Language Technologies for Circumpolar Region" speaks on the necessity of indigenous languages preservation

The Future of Winter Tourism 2017 workshop announces an extension to the Call for Papers. The new deadline for submissions is January 18, 2017.

The issue is devoted to the first Congress of the University of the Arctic, held on 12 – 16 September in St. Petersburg.