The Nordplus Call for Proposals 2014 has been published and the application system Espresso opened. Please remember that the DL for submitting applications is on Monday 3rd March 2014. As this is the second application round in this programme period, there are no changes in the call, e.g. regarding goals. However, we h...

On December 11th the European Commission presented the first calls for projects under Horizon 2020, the European Union's €80 billion research and innovation programme. The call includes twelve areas that will be a focus for action in 2014 / 2015, including topics such as personalised healthcare, digital security and smart cit...

On December 10th 2013, the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC), and six institutes from the Nordic countries as well as three other institutes from China signed in Shanghai a Cooperation Agreement on the China-Nordic Arctic Research Center (CNARC) to formally mark the inauguration of CNARC. Finland is represented by the...

The Arctic Yearbook  is calling for abstracts for the 2014 edition.  The Arctic Yearbook is an international and peer-reviewed volume which focuses on issues of regional geopolitics, circumpolar relations, and security, broadly defined. The Arctic Yearbook is a joint initiative of the Northern Research Forum (NRF) and the UAr...

Tyumen State University (Russia, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) invites you to take part in an International Science-practical online conference called “Arctic in the Modern World” that is scheduled for the 25th of December 2013. Participation procedure requests the participants to send their articles to be then uploaded on...

UArctic's Council Chair Jim McDonald and Circumpolar Studies lead Pat Maher of the University of Northern British Columbia have been elected to the Royal Canadian Geographical Society College of Fellows.elected to the College of Fellows of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. - See more at: http://unbc.ca/releases/1088...

UArctic's new Vice-President Indigenous, Keith Chaulk, participated in his first meeting of its senior management group "Ma-Mawi" held in Rovaniemi Dec 3-5, 2013. Ma-Mawi, made up of the President, Vice-Presidents, and heads of strategic areas. Dr. Keith Chaulk is the Director of the Labrador Institute of the Memorial Univers...

The 2013 Christmas edition Progress Newsletter from the International Arctic Science Committee / IASC is now availalble for download. This edition focuses on the Third International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP III).

UArctic is a partner in organizing a side event at Arctic Frontiers, "Humans in the Arctic: How to create a climate for change" on Jan 22, 09:00 - 16:00 Venue: UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø, Tabletten Room F1.101, Pharmacy Building. Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time. Given the scope of the tasks ahea...

The Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College invites applications for the 2014-15 (September -June) Dartmouth Fellows Program in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security. Applicants from all disciplines working on research that bears directly on U.S. foreign policy and international security...

Oulu UAS' School of Engineering will arrange an International Teacher Exchange Week, 17 - 21 March 2014. We'd be happy to welcome teaching staff from your institution for teaching and networking. Our R&D shall be also offering optional workshops during the week in the following areas: 1. Workshop on CAVE and Augmented Rea...

Professor Mauri Ylä-Kotola, President of the University of Lapland, recognizes early visionaries of UArctic during his dinner address at the In the Spirit of Rovaniemi Process Conference in Rovaniemi, Finland. Held from December 3rd to 5th and organized jointly by the City of Rovaniemi and the Arctic Centre of the University...

The Arctic is undergoing substantial changes regarding urbanisation, settlement patterns, occupational structures, climate and migration, creating challenges for engineering, technical and societal strategies as well as solutions. The development enhances the need for affordable, robust and sustainable engineering solutions t...

Northern (Arctic) Federal University invites Master and PhD student to take part in the course “Model Arctic Council”. The goals of the Model Arctic Council are: - to support already existing cooperation between the UArctic member institutions and between the UArctic and the Arctic Council - to allow the high school youth to...