The University of the Arctic welcomes expressions of interest from all full member institutions and organisations keen to host a candidate for the position of UArctic Vice-President Indigenous. Interested members have until May 1st, 2013 to submit expressions of interest to the UArctic UArctic Secretariat

At the 7th Congress of the Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation (RAIPON), held in Salekhard, Russia from March 27th to 30th, delegates elected Grigory Ledkov as the new President of the association. Also during the Congress, Pavel Sulyandziga was re-appointed as the First Vice-Pr...

The 8th Circumpolar Agricultural Conference UArctic Inaugural Food Summit: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in the Circumpolar North will be held September 29–October 3, 2013 in Girdwood, Alaska, USA, hosted by the University of Alaska Faribanks and organized by the UArctic Thematic Network on Northern Food Securi...

The president of UArctic, Lars Kullerud and the rector of Sami Education Institute, Lisa Holmberg are representing UArctic at the 7th Congress of the Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation. The conference takes place in Salekhard from 27 to 30 of March. The Congress is organised by...

In 2013, the district headquarters of student squads "Russian student squads" and "Arkhangelsk region’s Headquarters of youth labor groups" in cooperation with NArFU, "Sevmorgeo" and National Park "Russian Arctic" are launching a new project “Cleaning the Arctic”. The project is aimed at the creation of student labor squad wo...

The Conference will be held in Rovaniemi, Finland on  23 -25 April, 2013.The natural resources of the Barents Region are of strategic importance for Europe. One intensively developing sector is mining, which will bring new opportunities to the region, but which will also cause changes in the environment.This Conference provi...

30year-old Borlase has taken part in the Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS), GoNorth, The Arctic Studies Program (University of Lapland), UArctic’s Intern program, and the Masters of Polar Law (University of Akureyri). Borlase was raised in Nain and Happy Valley-Goose Bay, and has worked on northern issues all his life, m...

PhD, Docent Lassi Heininen has been appointed as Professor of Arctic Politics as of 1 March 2013. He was invited to fill the position, which is in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Lapland. Responsibilities in this position encompass conducting research, teaching, serving as a supervisor for doctoral student...

The International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) announces the 8th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VIII) to be held at the main campus of the University of Northern British Columbia, in Prince George, British Columbia, from 22-26 May 2014.

”Social Work from a Global Perspective”We are pleased to invite the students who are studying social sciences or related fields to participate in the 16th International Summer School in Social Work in the Social Sciences 2013 – "Social Work from a Global Perspective" from May 20th to June 5th, 2013 at the University of Lapla...

The registration to “the Health, Society and Environment in Relation to Large-Scale Industrial Projects”, PhD Summer School, Nuuk, Greenland 5th-9th September 2013 is open. The PhD Summer School will be held in association with the NUNA MED 2013 conference in Nuuk and thus offers a very good venue for PhD students to learn m...

The deadline for new proposed thematic networks is March 31st, 2013. Please check the guidelines and contact information at http://www.uarctic.org/singleArticle.aspx?m=56&amid=68

The University of Saskatchewan’s International Centre for Northern Governance andDevelopment is pleased to offer the second in a series of presentations broadcast betweenNorthern Sweden’s Luleå University and the U of S. This unique opportunity allows for theexchange of ideas and best practices between international, northern...

 March 2013 edition of Policy Options (Canadian public policy magazine)Please, see an article Saskatchewan VikingsWith uncanny similarities between their resourceblessings and social cohesion, is Canada’s rich prairieprovince poised to be another Norway?Greg Poelzer is associate professor of political studies and director oft...

UArctic’s Board of Governors recently recognised two outgoing Board members Dr Barry Scherr from Dartmouth College (Board Chair 2009-2013) and Dr Andrew Greenshaw from the University of Alberta (Board Vice- chair 2007-2011). Elected to the Board in June 2007, both members will be ending their final term on the Board this comi...