The arctic delegation of the Norwegian Parliament Stortinget will visit Rovaniemi and Helsinki from April 8 to April 10. In Rovaniemi, the delegation gets to know the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, as well as to discuss with the mayor Esko Lotvonen about issues related to Barents region economic cooperation.More...

Conference on Sustainable Business in the Arctic that will take place in Stockholm on 18 April 2013.The conference will address challenges facing the Arctic and focus on the need for a structured business dialogue and discuss Corporate Social Responsibility in an Arctic context.The invitation to the conference from Mikael Anz...

The Canadian Polar Commission (CPC) Board of Directors met in Iqaluit on March 4-6, 2013 to continue directing the activities of the Commission and to approve its work plan and budget for Fiscal Year 2013-14. The Board also took the opportunity while in Iqaluit to meet with key Federal and Nunavut representatives to discuss a...

UAF’s Department of Geology and Geophysics offers a two-week field class, (June 9-22) in volcanology in cooperation with the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (IVS) and the Kamchatka State University (KSU) in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. The course is offered every summer both in Katmai National Park, Alaska, site...

The NVP-Nansen summer school 2013 “Shipping in Arctic Water: The interaction of sea ice, ship technology, climate change, economy and other operational conditions” will be organized in Longyearbyen on  Svalbard from 18th to 25th August. Graduate & postgraduate students are invited to submit applications for participation...

Oovtâst – Together. New concepts, theories and methodologies on Saami studies conference will be held in Inari, Finland on September 25th–27th, 2013. The aim of the conference 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 dire...

On 27th April 2010, Norway and Russia signed a bilateral intention agreement concerning higher education. On Monday 18th March 2013 State Secretary Ragnhild Setsaas at The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research met Alexandr Klimov ,Russian Vice-Minister for Education and Research at University of Nordland. Read more fr...

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...