In its fourth call for proposals, NordForsk’s Nordic Health and Welfare Programme invites applications that utilise Nordic register data to answer research questions addressing grand societal challenges relating to health and welfare. A total of NOK 67 million is available for research projects, and the application deadline i...

Plasma Research and Education Center (REC Plasma) was opened at Petrozavodsk State University in the fall 2002. It brought together local research teams that focus on problems of fundamental physics. Now the Plasma Center unites scholars and researchers from all over the world. It is always open to new projects and collaborat...

Ural Federal University Innovation Infrastructure together with McKinsey & Company and United Machinery Plants Group has been developing the first Russian «Model Factory» in Ekaterinburg. It is aimed to provide enterprise workers and students with training in modern methods of industrial enterprise organization and workfo...

The Arctic Science Summit Week 2017 will be held in Prague 31 March - 7 April 2017. Call for sessions for the science symposium is open now, you can submit your proposals following this link. Session proposal can be submitted until 30 June 2016.

Fourth annual Arctic Circle Assembly will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland on october 7- 9, 2016. Registration is now open on: www.arcticcircle.org

The program of the Science Section of the UArctic Congress 2016 has now been published. Also, information for presenters and about the congress publications are now available on the congress website.

On 1 June 2016, the European Commission and the European External Action Service organized in Brussels an outreach seminar dedicated to the revamped EU Arctic policy. The University of the Arctic attended the event in its capacity as an observer in the Arctic Council. The new EU policy document (Joint Communication) was publi...

June 2015 the UArctic Council approved applications for the establishment of six new Thematic Networks, including “Working in the Arctic" initiated by Russian UArctic members. Natalya Simonova and Jana Korneeva, researchers from the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology, NArFU, share their experience. The interview was publish...

The application deadline for the PhD course "Resource development versus other community sustainability options?" is June 15. The course is organized by the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Extractive Industries, and it takes place Aug 29 to Sept 4, 2016 in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

"Arctic Floating University", joint scientific and educational project implemented by NArFU anв Northern Branch of RosHydroMet, supported by the Russian Geographical Society started its eighth Arctic expedition.

The final stage of the youth project contest "Discover the Arctic" was held at Northern (Arctic) Federal University (Russia) in the framework of the all-Russian conference "The Arctic as a national megaproject: personnel and research support"

The document on the establishment of National Arctic Research and Education Consortium was signed June 6, 2016 at all-Russian conference "The Arctic as a national megaproject: personnel and research support" hold at Northern (Arctic) Federal University (Russia).