Petrozavodsk State University scientists during the experiment with rats found that white nights can cause obesity and other diseases.

On December 16 researchers from Ural Federal University will start the first meteorite expedition to the Antarctic in the history of modern Russia. The expedition team plans to find meteorites and dust from Mars and the Moon in the South Pole. 

Recently, twelve reindeer husbandry youth were granted UArctic Scholarships through the UArctic EALAT Institute. [Source]

The primary purpose of the festival is to revive and reveal the profound nature of nationalities's culture in Ugra. The Festival starts November, 6  2015.

From 15 to 19 October 2015 in Reykjavik (Iceland) the I International Art Show «Circum-Arctic» takes place. The show is attended by artists, painters, masters of arts and crafts - representatives of the Arctic indigenous peoples from different corners of such  countries as  Canada, the United States (Alaska), Russia, Finland,...

Staff and students of Laurea University of Applied Sciences took part in the joint international rescue exercise organised by the countries in the Barents region. Laurea's responsibility in the Barents Rescue 2015 exercise in Lapland 28 September – 2 October was to carry out the evaluation of the exercise.

Yakutsk scientists from the Institute of the Humanities and the Indigenous Peoples of the North - Siberian Branch RAS, Arctic State Institute of Arts and Culture and NEFU took part in research trip to Canada from 24 September to 1 October organized by the University of Quebec in Montreal

Daniela Tommasini, PhD, from the University of Lapland received financial support from north2north, UArctic mobility and exchange programme for teachers, researchers and students. The support allowed her to visit the University of the Faroe Islands, April 22nd - May 3rd, 2015.

Seven institutions, representing five countries, met at the UiT-The Arctic University of Norway campus in Alta, from Monday to Wednesday (5th-7th October) to gather ideas on implementation of a future shared masters degree program. 

The expedition «North Oykumena» of the North-Eastern Federal University has found unique data that could be used as a material to clone mammoth.

Paleontologists of Tomsk State University brought unique findings from their expedition to the Novosibirsk region: more than 600 large mammals’ remains of the Late Pleistocene of Northern Eurasia. According to paleontologists, their findings are from 17,000 to 11,000 years old.

The Symposium 2015 - “On, Under and Near the Melting Polar Ice: Human activities, management and the environment” will be held on October 22nd 2015, at the University of Nordland, Bodø.

The China-Nordic Arctic Research Centre (CNARC) invites you to the symposium which will be held in Rovaniemi, Finland, at 6.-9.6.2016. The main theme of the symposium is The Sustainable Arctic - Opportunities and Challenges of Globalization. Save the Date flyer.

When the first Indian exchange student arrived in Germany in 1951, he was welcomed by a crowd of people and festive cheer. Flowers, music and an excited crowds embraced the student. Today, this moment is diluted in the crowds of international students, arriving more unnoticed than half a century ago.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges will shortly be inviting proposals, under the health, demographic change and wellbeing work programme, for its H2020-CS1-2016-2017 Personalised Medicine Call. The first deadlines for this call are 13 April 2016.