On 26-29 March study tour of the project “Waste awareness: Sorting, Treatment and Education” was held in Helsinki for teachers from schools and kindergartens from Petrozavodsk, Sestroretsk and Apatity. The purpose of the trip was to familiarize with the different ways of teaching children and teenagers about waste sorting and...

Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland and Greenland Climate Research Centre.

A new application round is open from April 10-30, 2012 for the European Joint Master Degree program in Arts, Culture and International Management (EMACIM). The program responds to the needs and the constraints of the current situation and market of Europe. The two-year EMACIM program hosted at the University of Lapland in Fin...

Kathleen Osgood and Claudia Federova have been friends since they first met at a meeting of the University of the Arctic in Luleå, Sweden in 2001.

The first meeting of the Expert Council on the Arctic and Antarctic under the supervision of Chairperson of the Council of the Federation, the Russian Federation Federal Assembly, Valentina Matvienko was held in Moscow on the 30 of March.

This Summer School is the first joint effort of the Barents Cross Border University (BCBU) and Finnish-Russian Cross Border University (CBU).

Increased cooperation between Finnmark University College and Murmansk State Humanities University (MSHU) is gaining ground.

At the recent Senior Arctic Officials meeting of the Arctic Council, the Sustainable Development Working Group presented two projects, both of which were approved: Arctic Maritime and Aviation Transportation Infrastructure Initiative and Circumpolar-Wide Inuit Response to the AMSA.

Gustaf Lind, Sweden's Arctic Ambassador has taken to Youtube to highlight Sweden's commitment to youth, and in particular the Arctic Council EALLIN project on reindeer herding youth organized by the Association of World Reindeer Herders and the International Center for Reindeer Husbandry which was just officially launched in...

9th International Summer School of Karelia, ISSK, will be organized in Petrozavodsk 14.-18.5.2012 by University of Lapland and Petrozavodsk State University.

On February 25th Ounasvaara recreation area was the site of the 2nd annual Mad About Snow wintersport carnival where international competitors, young and old, participated in a string of unorthodox outdoor snow sports that included football, volleyball, baseball, and interestingly, deep snow judo. Original article (Universit...

Thematic networks coordination welcomes the proposals for new thematic networks that will fill the gaps in our current thematic networks fields. The minimum requirement is to have three partners including the host organization, all these three have to be UArctic members.

The University of the Arctic (UArctic) today reached a new level of cooperation with the indigenous organizations that are permanent participants in the Arctic Council. By signing a Memorandum of Understanding with these organizations, UArctic formalizes and strengthens a long-standing relationship with these organizat...

A multidisciplinary course on the climate change effects on people and environment and especially the effects on snow and ice was held in Abisko, in Sweden, in March 19-23, 2012. A special aspect was also given to the monitoring and research conducted at the Abisko area during the past decades

The UArctic Thematic Network on Social Work has published its March 2012 newsletter, available in PDF. Highlights of the newsletter include Russian-Finnish collaboration on the Master’s degree program (BCBU) in Comparative Social Work, recent meetings in Arkhangelsk and Akureyri, and the upcoming conference in Stockholm in Ju...