Almost twenty organizations from Norway, Russia, Iceland and Greenland are involved into this big-scale project leaded by Nord University. Among them are educational institutions, regional authorities, rescue services and Barents Euro Arctic Council Joint Working Group on Education and Research. The project is financed by the...

The third Barents Summer School will be arranged in Oulanka Research Station in northeastern Finland on August 1-6, 2016. The theme of the doctoral course, Towards Sustainable Communities, covers the whole complexity of sustainability of the communities in the Barents Region.

A total of 13 offices and institutes of the National Institutes of Health in the USA invite applications for their dissemination and implementation research in health funding. The call is open until 16 June 2016.

As parts of a specialization in Greenlandic Health and Environment of the Arctic, five courses on Arctic subjects are offered by the during the 3rd and 4th quarters of 2016. Courses will take place in Nuuk, Greenland. A limited number of places is available. Application deadline has been extended until June 1, 2016.

International Scientific Conference “Monitoring and Assessment of the Development of the Arctic Zone” will be held at Northern (Arctic) Federal University (Arkhangelsk, Russia) on May 19-20, 2016.

Evgenii Alexandrov and Anatoli Burmistrov, Nord University and TN "Energy in New Time" introduce the new course for Master and PhD students.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Extractive Industries will once again organize a PhD course this summer. The course has the theme "Resource development versus other community sustainability options?" and takes place Aug 29 to  Sept 4, 2016 in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

The sixth Northern Political Economy Symposium, organized September 8-9, 2016 in Rovaniemi, Finland by the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, will discuss everyday life in the Arctic and various tactics of tackling the changes in it. This is the first call for abstracts, with the deadline of May 31, 2016.

The home base of the UArctic International Secretariat, the University of Lapland, is pleased to announce open championships for staff and students in running and Nordic walking, to be held as part of the Rovaniemi Marathon on 2 July.

The interview was published in Russian in the fourth issue of "UArctic Russian Newsletter" dedicated to the best practices of international cooperation within Thematic Networks' participants.

The Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station located in the Dronning Maud Land region of East Antarctica was designed and built by initiative of the International Polar Foundation and its partner organizations.  Since the 2008-09 Antarctic season the station has provided a unique platform for scientists interested in co...

The project “Reducing spring flood impacts for wellbeing of communities of the North” engages communities of interior Alaska State and central Sakha Republic in a dialogue on spring breakup floods of the Yukon and Lena Rivers. 

On 11-12 October 2016, the new research unit RAS at the Law Department of the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) will together with SDU’s Centre for War Studies convene a 2-day conference to explore the future of the Arctic Council. Deadline for abstracts: June 6, 2016.

North-Eastern Federal University will hold the Summer school from July 19 to August 2, 2016. The deadline to apply has been extended until  1 June. Apply today!

The Arctic Economic Council is hosting a Broadband Summit in Barrow Alaska on July 13-14, 2016.