The INTERACT project under EU FP7 has a Transnational Access program that offers access to 20 research stations in northernmost Europe and Russian Federation. The sites represent a variety of glacier, mountain, tundra, boreal forest, peatland and freshwater ecosystems, providing opportunities for researchers from natural sci...

UArctic's Thematic Network on Distance Education and e-Learning is organizing a open seminar, "Practice of using ICT in educational process at school and in higher institution", November 28, 2012 at Murmansk State Humanities University. See the invitation for full details.

An international group of researchers, lead by the North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU), found unique materials for mammoth study. The results of the Yana-2012 international paleontological expedition may draw attention of the world's scientific community. It was discussed at the meeting with the rector of NEFU on Se...

The Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs has made an agreement with the Office of International Education (OIE) in Iceland regarding the administration of the Arctic Science Cooperation Fund and Exchange scholarships for Icelandic and Norwegian Students in Arctic Studies. Exchange scholarships for Icelandic and Norwegian St...

The 10th Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region was held in Akureyri, Iceland from September 5-7, 2012. In their conference declaration, the parliamentarians once again reaffirmed their support of the University of the Arctic, asking their governments to "Continue to strength[en] cooperation between the Universit...

The International Centre for Northern Governance and Development (ICNGD) is pleased to provide you with the Summer 2012 edition (Vol. 2, Issue 5) of ICNGD News. Please see attached in PDF format.

Thule institute is organizing “5th Joint Northern Environmental Research Symposium” on September 10-14, 2012, together with the University of Hokkaido, the Finnish Institute in Japan and the University of Lapland. The symposium will be held partly at the University of Oulu, in Environmental Sciences Building (Lecture hall IT1...

On September 6-8 the Fifth Polar Law Symposium will be held at one of the birthplaces of Arctic cooperation - Rovaniemi. The meeting will be hosted by the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre and the University of Lapland. The keynote speakers include Charles Emmerson (Chatham House) and Donald...

Jan Henry Keskitalo, UArctic's Vice-President Indigenous, today delivered an opening address for the University of Lapland's new academic year. In his speech, Keskitalo focussed on the importance indigenous perspectives in higher education. He noted that the network of the University of the Arctic can be an important resource...

Beate Hummel is from Germany. She has studied sociology and psychology and been working as a psychologist, first, in different hospitals, and now on her own practice, that gives her a lot of time to travel, she says. And for the last ten years she has been traveling a lot. Firstly she was very busy taking courses for her prof...

The course will cover different levels of securities with respect to health and well-being of individuals and communities in the circumpolar area. The course is funded by the NordForsk Top-level Research Initiative “Effect studies and adaptation to climate change” as the fifth course organized by the Nordic Network “Peo...

The first planning workshop for the new PhD program on Arctic Health and Well-being was held in Oulu, Finland on August 23 -24, 2012. Workshop participants shared their currently available education on the Arctic health and discussed topics for courses to be jointly developed for summer and winter schools. Partners also...

The fifth Polar Law Symposium takes place at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland on 6-8 September 2012. Professors Gudmundur Alfredsson and Timo Koivurova lead the preparations to the event. The symposium is organized as part of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law. The draft program is now av...

Conducting research is a complicated issue and the findings are often even more complicated - especially when they need to be explained to lay-persons. Therefore, APECS Finland is happy to announce an APECS meeting at the 5th Polar Law Symposium in Rovaniemi, September 6-8, 2012.The theme of the meeting is "How to commu...

University of Alaska Fairbanks' Pat Pitney, who has served as head of the UArctic Finance Office, has been named by the Board of Governors as Vice-President Finance for UArctic during their meeting in Nuuk. Pitney will continue in her role with the UArctic Finance Office, but the new role provides greater focus on strategic d...