Brussels, October 7th, 2013: – European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Maria Damanaki, Vice-President of the European Parliament Isabelle Durant and Belgium’s deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders headline next week Brussels’ premier gathering on Arctic issues, which this year...

The Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU) has recently posted a call for applications for collaboration projects in higher education in the new High North Program. The High North Program 2013–2018 supports cooperation between higher education institutions in Norway and in five important collabor...

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law has published the online publication "Current Developments in Arctic Law," (edited by Timo Koivurova and Waliul Hasanat, 2013) now available from their website. The contributions from members of the Thematic Network were chosen for their insights into their fields and show the bread...

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law has launched a new blog site at http://www.arcticlawnetwork.blogspot.fi/. Members of th Network will post regular blog entries on different aspects of Arctic law. The first entry by Kamrul Hossain is entitled "New Observers in the Arctic Council: AN Enhanced Legitimacy in Arctic Gove...

Last year in September students from Norway visited Nenets Agrarian Economic Technical School under a project called “Peace Painting”. In spring 2013, Russian students had the opportunity to travel to Norway as part of the same project.

Alaskan Public Media has presented an article and radio piece on the UArctic Thematic Network on Northern Food Security's conference, "Advancing Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in the Circumpolar North,” September 29 – Oct. 3, 2013, Girdwood, Alaska. This is a joint conference with the Circumpolar Agriculture Asso...

The XII All-Russian Scientific Conference entitled "Political, Economic and Sociocultural aspects of Regional Governance in the European North" will be held October 24-25, 2013 in Syktyvkar, Russia.

Held over four days and hosted by the University of Akureyri, the 6th Symposium on Polar Law will begin in Akureyri on October 11th before moving on to the Arctic Circle open assembly at Harpa, Reykjavik, October 12th to 14th, 2013.

Northern Arctic Federal University would like to invite young researchers and practitioners (up to 35 years old) interested in presenting the cases of youth cooperation in the field of scientific research in the Arctic region. Conference is aimed to create a road map for international youth cooperation in the Arctic Region.

UArctic's Board of Governors met in Reykjavik, Iceland on Oct 12-14, 2013 in conjunction with the Arctic Circle open assembly. The venue for the Board meeting was the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre. One of the main items on the Board's agenda was the approval of UArctic's new Strategic Plan, that has been in develop...

Anastasia Emelyanova is one of the applicants who received travel support from MobilityDK, UArctic's pilot model for providing financial support for teacher, researcher and student exchange. The PhD student from Thule Institute at the University of Oulu used her travel support to participate in a...

Helsinki Climate Forum: Arctic Urgency is a high-profile conference on climate change organized by students at the University of Helsinki on 28 September 2013. Helsinki Climate Forum: Arctic Urgency brings together inspiring thinkers and doers with differing approaches, but a shared willingness to act on climate change...

In recent decades Saami research has gone to new directions and become more multivoiced. The aim of the Conference (25th-27th September 2013 Inari, Finland) is to chart this new multivoiced research and to find out at what point Saami studies are today and what are the main questions, new thoughts, and directions at the prese...

Six students from the University of Akureyri (Iceland) are this semester, attending the Marine Institute in St. John‘s Newfoundland on an exchange. The boys are all on their third year in fisheries B.Sc. Program but their studies in Newfoundland will be accredited in Iceland. They find the Marine Institute very welcoming and...

Doing exchange studies is an excellent way to learn about a new culture first hand, but it isn't always easy. Nooa Nykänen travelled from Central Finland to Siberia and soon noticed that in addition to being challenging it was also hugely rewarding.