According to the new IASSA by-laws there will be an election of an IASSA president for the term 2017-2020. The candidates should include a presentation of the host university, financial and institutional commitments, experience and capacity in the proposal. Candidates will be presented in Northern Notes and on the IASSA website.

We are pleased to invite representatives of academia, business and government with professional interests to participate in the Conference in order to discuss future development in the High North as well as create a firmer foundation for decision-making and sustainable economic development in the Arctic.

Lea Giffard, a student at Science Po University (France), shared impressions on her internship in UArctic Research Office in Arkhangelsk.

Throughout 2017 we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Barguzinsky Nature State Biosphere Reserve. This September's Forum and Conference, “Nature Reserves as the Pillar of the Future,” will be the year's major environmental event dedicated to Barguzinsky. 

Dear students! Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Russia) will hold a youth forum "PROFormat" from 15 to 16 March. One of its sessions is called "PROPlanet" and connected with environmental awareness. Organizers ask young representatives of the Circumpolar region to record a 3-minute video on how to protect the pure nature of the...

Russian State Hydrometeorological University invites you to take part in Pytroll Seminar, taking place in Saint Petersburg on  March, 27 –  April, 02, 2017.

I have spent my last 3 and a half months as an intern at the UArctic Secretariat as part of a project funded by the Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation. My office was located at University of Lapland in the city of Rovaniemi (Finland). From several points of views, the experience was amazing and it was a great...

The Arctic is changing fast, both in terms of climate warming and in how organisms interact with each other. To understand the implications of such changes, we need to understand how Arctic ecosystems are structured, and how Arctic species are interlinked by complex, live interactions, such as predation and herbivory. In shor...

Global challenges affect us all. This summer, from 12-22 June, 2017, Bergen Summer Research School presents six PhD courses dealing with some of the most pressing global challenges, ranging from migration, higher education, global health, water management, poverty, and the use of language, taking place at the University of Be...

Interview with pro-rector and head of Institute of Nursing & Health Science, Suzanne Møller, who for the past 20 years has worked with developing the nursing programme.

The K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea (JCLOS) is arranging a summer course for PhD students in Tromsø, 15 - 16 June 2017.The closing date for applications is Monday 3 April.

Today, on February 6, 2017, the Sami National Day also marks the 100-year anniversary of cross-border Sami collaboration. Exactly a hundred years ago, on February 6, 1917, the first Sami congress was held in Trondheim, Norway, bringing together 150 representatives from Norway and Sweden to advance joint issues.

To date, the impact of Russia's federal energy policy on local sustainable development has not been systematically investigated, writes Daria Gritsenko, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute.

On January 31, 2017 Henning Åkesson and Øyvind Paasche (Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and University of Bergen) invited Nordic researchers to sign a petition supporting their American colleagues in climate science.

Barents EU Centre of Petrozavodsk State University invites European and Russian students to take part in international school "Prospects of European integration: comparison with the regional integration processes in the Northern Europe" from 13 to 17 March 2017.