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...

UArctic's new Strategic Plan has been approved by UArctic's Board, after extensive consultation with the Council of UArctic and other units. The new plan sets out UArctic's vision - An Empowered North – With Shared Voices - as well as its mission, values, and goals that will guide the work of the organization for the remainde...

UArctic's senior management team Ma-Mawi hold meetings Dec 2-4, 2013 in conjunction with the international Arctic conference “In the Spirit of the Rovaniemi Process - Arctic Cities, Global Processes and Local Realities”  in Rovaniemi, Finland.  During their meetings, Ma-Mawi will define UArctic's 3-year Implementation Plan,...

The University of Turku coordinates several Erasmus Mundus Action 2 mobility programmes that cooperate between European, Russian and Eastern Neighborhood universities. These projects offer possibilities for EU citizens to apply for academic visits to partner universities in Russian, Belarusian, Moldovan, Ukrainian, Geo...

Why did the governance of the life of populations become a central concern for modern states and what have the consequences been for life? University of Lapland will enable students to answer these questions by offering the first ever master’s degree program in Global Biopolitics. A new application round will be open from Dec...

On behalf of President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson of Iceland, Parliament of Greenland Member Kuupik Kleist, Alaska Dispatch Publisher Alice Rogoff and distinguished partners, thank you for participating in the inaugural Arctic Circle assembly. This new open assembly drew more than 1,200 participants from over 40 nations, bringing...

Lassi Heininen, Adjunct Professor of the University of Lapland, Finland and Chairman of the Steering Committee of Northern Research Forum, visited Northern Arctic Federal University on 12–15 November and gave lectures to NArFU’s students. Professor Heininen’s course of lectures focused on Security issues, Geopoliti...

A new application round will be open from December 2, 2013 to January 31, 2014 for the master's degree program in Media Education at the University of Lapland. The program aims to develop profound media literacy and competence by examining media and media culture from three perspectives: media in teaching and learning; empo...

The University of the Arctic (UArctic), in collaboration with the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation and CIRCLA (Centre for Innovation and Research in Culture and Learning in the Arctic) at Aalborg University held a caucus meeting of its member institutions in Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands o...