Thanks to a research project of the UArctic Thematic Network on Permafrost, students in Siberia get hands-on scientific experience through permafrost monitoring. Kenji Yoshikawa, lead of the Thematic Network, explains in his Shared Voices 2015 article how the project has been evolving.

The Institute of Economics of Karelian Research Centre of RAS with the Government of the Republic of Karelia organize the 7th Youth Economic Forum “New Economy – New Opportunities” in Petrozavodsk (Russia) in November 12-13, 2015.

Arctic renewable energy is underrepresented in our mindsets. Yet, ideas move sometimes faster than we expect. The US Chairmanship of the Arctic Council chose Arctic renewable energy as its focal point. 

The technology developed in the Biological institute, Tomsk State University, allows to clean the bottom of water bodies polluted with oil and save their ecosystems.

Canadian Political Science Students’ Association invite you to attend the 20th annual CPSSA National Conference, held at the University of Victoria from January 27th to the 31st, 2016. This conference is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. The focal theme for the conference will be Sovereignty.

Lassi Heininen, professor of Arctic Politics and the leader of the UArctic Geopolitics and Security Thematic Network will be honored with the degree of the Doctor Honoris Causa of Petrozavodsk State University.

Northern (Arctic) Federal University hosted the conference "Ensuring Safety and Sustainable Development in the Arctic Region, Preservation of Ecosystems and Traditional Way of Life of the Indigenous Peoples of the North".

EUROFACULTY PSKOV project is aiming at upgrading university education in the field of business administration and business economics.

"True people" (Nenei nenecha) is the self-name of Nenets, the indigenous people of the Yamal peninsula (Russia), and the name of the complex 2015–2016 ethnographic expedition. Project participants will become part of the reindeer herders' family during the whole year just to “dive” in the casual life of Arctic nomads in XXI c...

ACI Europe together with Murmansk Shipping, IMO and Swedish Government is organizing 7th Arctic Shipping Summit, taking place in London, 11th – 12th November 2015

V International Conference "Culture, science, education: problems and prospects" will be held at Nizhnevartovsk State University 9-10 February 2016.

Arctic Frontiers Emerging Leaders calls for young professionals and Ph.D. students/post docs to meet with representatives from academia, business and the public sector through an inspiring and educational program. Emerging Leaders for the Arctic challenge will be arranged in Norway, 20 - 26 January 2016.

The 2015 UArctic Rectors' Forum Declaration has now been approved, following their meeting in Umeå in August, and is available on the UArctic website. In addition, the participants of the Students' Forum have also finalized their 2015 Students' Forum Declaration.

UArctic is launching a call for an internship position for the Spring 2016 at UArctic Research Liaison and Thematic Networks Office at the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland.

September 4-6, 2015 in the frame of the VIII All-Russian Festival of Mass Communications, participants attended the final conference "Tourism's image as a factor of socio-economic development in the Far East and Siberia."