We are glad to invite you to take part in the 3rd International Science Forum “Interdisciplinary aspects of the dialogue of cultures”, devoted to the seventieth (70th) Anniversary of the UNESCO Chair and the 4th International Culture Forum taking place in Saint Petersburg on the 14th December, 2015.

Martin Kotol from the Technical University of Denmark's Arctic Technology Centre (ARTEK) in Sisimiut, Greenland received financial support from north2north, UArctic mobility and exchange programme for teachers, researchers and students. In July 2015, he visited Fairbanks, Alaska.

Northern lights - one of the nature's biggest wonders, on the TEDx event show.

UArctic Members and individuals in the communities they represent are asked to contribute feedback on Telecomm, Internet, Broadband needs of their organizations and communities for input to Arctic Council's Task Force on Telecommunications Infrastructure in the Arctic. Please take part in and distribute this survey to any ind...

Last week, the North-Eastern Federal University carried out the local Model Arctic Council, where students discussed Arctic issues and developed a declaration to improve the life quality in the North.

The Russian version of the eBook "Sustainable Development in the Circumpolar North: From Tana, Norway to Oktemtsy, Yakutia, Russia. The Gargia Conferences for Local and Regional Development (2004-14)" was presented in North-Eastern Federal University.

Russian Foundation for Humanities (RFH) and joint Baltic Sea research and development programme (BONUS) organize the International Competition of joint research projects in the humanities and social sciences. The call opens 9 November 2015. The deadline for proposal submission is 10 March 2016.

Several UArctic represenatitives have taken part in the Northern Forum 12th General Assembly, in Yakutsk, Russia, November 4-6, 2015. [Program]

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) will host the first fully developed international Model Arctic Council 9-15 March, 2016, in conjunction with the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW). The deadline to apply has been extended until Nov 20. Apply today!

Within five years, scientists of North-Eastern Federal University and universities of Japan and the US will carry out research in the Arctic and central regions of Yakutia. Their task is to show the importance of the Arctic system in global climate change.

The application period for master's degree programs at the University of Oulu, Finland starts on December 15, 2015. 18 programs are open for applications in the fields of business and economics, education, natural sciences, engineering and architecture, and health sciences.

Research Professor Timo Koivurova has been named as the new director of the Arctic Centre (University of Lapland) for the period 2016-2020. Koivurova, who has led the Arctic Centre's Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law also serves as lead of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law. Announcement (in Finnish).

UiT - The Arctic University of Norway and UArctic will use the opportunity of the COP21 climate summit in Paris to convene interested researchers, students and other stakeholders across disciplines and sectors for a day-long structured discussion at the French-Norwegian Center at FMSH on Dec 4, 2015.

The Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, has two vacant PhD positions for research on indigenous people and governance in the Arctic. Application deadline: 22 November 2015.

The latest addition to the INTERACT products, a highly illustrated popular science book INTERACT Stories of Arctic Science, was launched at the Arctic Circle 2015 conference in Reykjavik.