First report analyzes funding landscape for Arctic-related research, based on open data on funding and publications

The three-day science section of the UArctic Congress 2016 was officially opened on Wednesday, Sept 14 on the Mikhailovskaya Dacha Campus of Saint Petersburg University.

The official opening session of the UArctic Congress 2016 took place at the SPbU Ceremonial Hall and was followed by an icebreaker on campus premises.

A unique component of the UArctic Congress took place today as leaders of UArctic's member institutions met jointly with our Board and representatives of Thematic Networks.

This year's Student Forum is organized in conjunction with the UArctic Congress 2016 in St Petersburg. The Student Forum participants have their own program on Sept 12-14, and they will also attend the Congress science sessions and plenaries on Sept 15 and 16.

The second group of UArctic Student Ambassadors receive their training and participate in the annual Student Forum in St Petersburg as part of the UArctic Congress 2016, and also meet Ambassadors from the first group.

From September 12 to 16, St. Petersburg State University hosts the first ever UArctic Congress, the University of the Arctic’s largest meeting to date – with over five hundred participants.

The Arctic Centre University of Lapland, Nordregio, University of Akureyri and Chiba University are creating a new UArctic Thematic Network on Migration in the Arctic. Migration and population change across the Arctic during the past, present, and to the future have been and will remain key aspects of the quality of life in t...

We invite you to take part in the 5th MARPART conference onboard the Hurtigruten MV Polarlys from Bodø to Tromsø 17th to 18th October 2016.

The Thematic Network on Permafrost/Natural hazards summer field school was held in the North-Eastern Federal University on August 1-20, Yakutsk. The school was led by Kenji Yoshikawa, a scientist and professor from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of the Arctic are pleased to announce The Arctic Broadband Forum 2017 which will be held in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, May 8-9, 2017, not 2016.

The first ever UArctic Congress is being held in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 12-16, 2016 hosted by St. Petersburg State University. Final preparations are being made and we are looking forward to seeing you all at the biggest UArctic meeting to date, with over 500 registered participants.

Each year the Swiss Confederation awards Government Excellence Scholarships to promote international exchange and research cooperation between Switzerland and over 180 other countries. Recipients are selected by the awarding body, the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS).

The Thematic Network on Permafrost/Natural hazards summer course was held in the North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk in August 2016. The summer field school aimed to provide the students with an overview of the many different research topics related to permafrost, ranging from geoscience, engineering, bioscience to soci...

The UArctic Thematic Network on Communicating Arctic Research, also known as SubZero, has just launched their new website at sub-zero.org. The new website introduces the purpose of the network and the people behind SubZero, and most importantly features several visual projects done within the framework of the Thematic Network.