Organizers announce extended call for papers for the 12th International ETMU Days conference "Mobile Roots - Rethinking indigenous and transnational ties", held on 22-23 October 2015 at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. The call for papers and the early bird registration both end on 31 August.

The European Union's Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency invites applications for its support for European cooperation projects call. The deadline for this call is 7th of October 2015.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, under the Environment programme, invites letters of inquiry for its energy and climate grants. These aim to ensure that energy is produced and used cleanly and efficiently, with limited impacts on human health and the environment.

Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) scientists propose creating Arctic campus for research groups in the region. Scientific base will be located in cities of Pevek and Anadyr in Chukotka, says the director of the School of Engineering FEFU Alexander Bekker.

Marina Kalinina, UArctic VP Interregional Cooperation, Vice-Rector for International Cooperation at Northern (Arctic) Federal University, tells about its international projects and membership in UArctic

The Tomsk State University’s Faculty of Philology carries out a summer school of intensive Russian language for 30 university students from Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia and India.

The Chair of UArctic's Board of Governors, Brian Rogers of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, will attend the conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic (GLACIER), in Anchorage, Alaska from August 30-31, 2015. The conference is organized by the US State Department, and President Obama will also be in attendance.

International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples is celebrated annually on 9 August. On this day 1992 was organized the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations. The holiday emphasizes the richness and variety of indigenous cultures and the contribution they make to the family of nations of the world.

The Polar Yakutia for the first time carried out research on the impact of changes in the native indigenous peoples habitats and the social and cultural situation on the indigenous peoples’ life.

From July 6 to 26, International Summer School "Russian Language and Culture in Siberia" for foreign students was held at NEFU  for the third time. Twelve participants from Palestine, Thailand, Switzerland, France, Japan, Indonesia, Korea studied the Russian language.

NEFU Institute of Applied Ecology of the North undertakes the international expedition “Northern Ecumene” to implement the Russian Geographical Society grant. During the expedition scientists will define the main dwellings of Stone Age people on the north of Yakutia.

The scientific expedition of paleontologists from Tomsk State University being merged with the II International field workshop "Paleological biogeotsenosis of Mesozoic and Cenozoic ages in Northern Hemisphere" has finished successfully.  The students from Russia, France and Kazakhstan took part in this expedition as well. The...

The EU's Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries invites proposals for support measures for small-scale fishing and sustainable management of fisheries. The deadline for this call is 30 September 2015.

NEFU Mammoth Museum is among the 10 most interesting sights in Russia according to the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph. According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the museum contains one of the world’s only complete woolly mammoth skeletons, as well as woolly rhino, ancient bisons, horses and dogs, dating from as far back as the...

The National Research Tomsk State University held the III International Summer School for young researchers "Natural and human environment of the Arctic and alpine regions in a rapidly changing climate."