The Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas (CAPP) of the ISCSP is organizing the IV Lisbon International Arctic Workshop and Conference on "Artic Global Sustainable Development, Challanges and Resilience - From Climate Change to Security, People and Places". The event will take place on December 5th.

From 25 to 26 November the International Conference "Gargia-Oktemtsy - 2016 “Agricultural development in the northern territories of Russia" took place for the third time on the base of the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk and Oktemtsy village.  

Students at UArctic institutions with a north2north contact, can apply for a north2north student exchange at another member institution. The application deadline for the next calendar year is Feb 15, 2017. 

November 26 – December 1 UArctic president Lars Kullerud visited Yakutsk. The President participated in the international seminar on the Arctic Council project EALLU: Reindeer youth, adaptation to climate change, and traditional food culture in the framework of the program.

Last chance to participate in the UArctic communications survey and help us develop our information sharing! The survey closes on December 6, 2016.

Here is a call for papers from the 5th IPTRN conference (held in August 2016 in NE Iceland). Although it’s linked to IPTRN5, the call is open to all submissions and full details can be found below. Deadline for submission is 30 April 2017.  

In an article for the High North News, UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law leader Timo Koivurova reflects on the recent discussion and media focus on the potential conflict in the Arctic and whether it is more speculation than reality.

On 29 November representatives of North-Eastern Federal University, University of Tromsø  and UArctic held a round table.

On 29 November 2016, the rectors of North-Eastern Federal University and UiT the Arctic University of Norway signed a Cooperation Agreement.

Three master’s degree programs at the University of Lapland, Finland will be open for applications December 1, 2016 − January 31, 2017. The programs are Arctic Art and Design, Media Education, and Tourism, Culture and International Management. Studies start in September 2017.

Anastasia Kaptsova from the Russian State Hydrometeorological University visited the Aarhus University as part of the UArctic north2north program. Now, it is possible to read her story.

Three of the Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design Network partners (the University of Highlands and Islands, Iceland Academy of the Arts and the University of Lapland) arranged a collaborative socially-engaged art workshop in Westfjords Iceland.

Global environmental change calls urgently for new perspectives, practices and fresh imaginations. The book Interventions explores new possibilities for visualizing environmental change and introduces innovative ways for communicating environmental change and raising public awareness on environmental issues.

The University of Arctic Thematic Network Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design held their fifth annual RELATE NORTH symposium in Lerwick, Shetland, UK November 2016. 

Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts will host an International conference: "Culture and education in the development of human capital of the Arctic". (December, 15-16, 2016).