UArctic's Board of Governors met together with Ma-Mawi (UArctic's senior management group) in Levi, Finland Dec 8-12, 2012. The work of the meetings focussed on finalizing work plans for UArctic activities in 2013 as well as the development of UArctic's next Strategic Plan.

Linda Pemik of Nunavut Arctic College organized a meeting of the VERDDE network during the recent Circumpolar Indigenous Education Conference hosted by the Nunavut Education Department and the Greenland Education Department in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada Nov 27-30, 2012. VERDDE is a UArctic Thematic Network that promotes and...

The Swedish Chairmanship of the Arctic Council is organizing a side-event, "High Level Dialogue: Arctic climate change – Global Consequences and Arctic Response?" at COP18 in Doha, Qatar, 6th of December 15.30 -16.45 (Room 1). The event is open for conference attendees.

Call for Papers for the North Atlantic Forum 2013, "Rural Tourism - Challenges in Changing Times: Community, Experience, Economy and Environment,"  June 13-15, 2013 Hólar in Hjaltadalur, Iceland. See www.naf2013.holar.is

Following the success of the inaugural Adventure Conference in February this year, West Highland College UHI’s Centre for Recreation and Tourism Research, in collaboration with SportScotland, has announced a call for papers for the 2013 Adventure Conference. The event is scheduled for May 21-23 at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on the Isl...

The Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, in partnership with the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, The Inuit Knowledge Centre, St. Jerome's University and the Trinity-Munk Centre for Contemporary International History, is pleased to host the third annual...

The UArctic Thematic Network on Geopolitics and Security is proud to announce the launch of the Arctic Yearbook (AY), the preeminent repository of critical analysis on the Arctic region, with a mandate to inform observers about the state of Arctic geopolitics and security. AY is an international and interdisciplinary pe...

Altogether 17 Nordic PhD and advanced Master’s students participated the multidisciplinary course on security in the Arctic. The course was held in November 12 – 14, 2012 at the University of Oulu, Finland. The teachers included experts on Human and Northern Security: Professor Lassi Heininen (University of Lapland), the l...

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 1, 2012. Indigenous persons who are active in caring for and protecting natural areas and cultural/sacred sites are invited to take part in North America's largest professional meeting on protected areas. Held every two years, the George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and...

The Arctic Centre's Arctic Anthropology group arranges regular lectures. The schedule for the fall 2012 is available from their home page.

The Circumpolar Conference on Education for Indigenous People takes place November 26-30, 2012, Iqaluit. The conference is a partnership between the Government of Nunavut and the Government of Greenland. Jan Henry Keskitalo, UArctic's Vice-President Indigenous, will attend the conference. The conference also brings togethe...

Download the announcement and call for community input and White Papers for the first Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) which will be held in Vancouver (Canada) on 30 April-2 May, 2013. The AOS is a task of the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) which is led by the Arctic Council and IASC.

Update: Based on multiple requests we decided to extend abstract deadline to Dec 15, 2012. You are hereby invited to the Artek Event 2013 with the topic “Sustainability in mining in the Arctic”; a very exciting and highly relevant topic. Please forward this invitation to relevant persons in your network with encouragement to...

The 6th University of the Arctic Rectors’ Forum has concluded in Winnipeg Canada, held from Nov 13-15, 2012. This year, the Forum was attended by 37 presidents and rectors of higher education institutions from all eight Arctic countries.  Hosted by University of Manitoba, the theme of the 2012 Rectors’ Forum was "Pan-Arctic...

The Arctic Co-operation Programme of the Nordic Council of Ministers has opened up for applications for economic support in 2013 to new project proposals as well as for the continuation of existing project. The deadline for applications is January 20th, 2013