A unique partnership has emerged from cooperation activities between leading academics from our networks. Tor Gjertsen shares more about his personal story.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks hosted the University of the Arctic's Board of Governors meeting from Dec 4-6, 2012, chaired by Barry Scherr. The Board reached a number of key decisions on UArctic's future direction. Finance policy was at the centre of the Board's agenda, with the approval of an overall budget and work pla...

A Memorandum of Understanding between North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU) and the University of the Arctic during the Board of Governors meeting in Fairbanks on Dec 5, 2011.The MoU addresses NEFU's hosting of UArctic's Undergraduate Office, and Claudia Fedorova becomes UArctic's new Dean of Undergraduate Studies. NEFU's...

NArFU Vice-rector of International Cooperation Marina Kalinina and other NArFU representatives took part in the meeting of the Barents Council Joint Working Group on Education and Research. The meeting was held in Murmansk on 17th November, on the premises of Murmansk Humanities Institute. The idea of the meeting was i...

Herb Enns, co-lead of the Thematic Network on Digital Media and Media Arts, has been named as the first director of the University of Winnipeg's Cisco Innovation Centre. Read the full story here. Congratulations Herb!

Sini Kestilä has joined the UArctic International Secretariat on a six month internship in the role of Office Secretary, with duties including meeting support, communications tasks, and general administrative functions.

Social Sciences, Ilimmarfik Institute, Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland The Department of Social Sciences at the Ilimmarfik Institute at Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland hereby announces two vacant positions as associate or assistant professor of political science and economics. The positions are to be filled...

The NETESDA Thematic Network organized the International Round table on the Thematic Network of Environmental Training and Education for Sustainable Development of the Arctic under UArctic, which took place in Syktyvkar State University where NETESDA Secretariat is located. The workshop was held between November 22- 2...

A new Arctic Co-operation Programme for 2012-2014 takes off by announcing an application deadline for project proposals by December 19, 2011.(source: Norden)

The University of Lapland is now accepting applications for the program Master of International and Comparative Law. The program offers specialization in either Arctic Law and Governance or Transcultural Business Law. 

Everyone who has ever attended a Council meeting, needed to figure out how to fly from Barrow, Alaska to Salekhard, Russia or had to find a key document on our website knows who to contact: Riitta Aikio.

The Arktis graduate school, Arctic Centre NIEM and Anthropology Research Team are organizing a seminar "Anthropological and legal aspects of industrial development impact assessment" at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland) on December 19, 2011. Deadline for abstracts is Dec 7, 2011.

Why did the governance of the life of populations become a central concern for modern states and what have the consequences been for life? Beginning in 2012, the University of Lapland will enable students to answer these questions by offering the first ever master’s degree programme in Global Biopolitics (120 ECTS).

We wish to inform you about the following Arctic session at the ‘6th SETAC World Congress’ which will be held in Berlin, Germany, 20-24 May 2012. The conference website provides guidelines for the preparation and submission of your abstracts http://berlin.setac.eu. The abstract submission deadline is 30th November 20...

IASC Medals are awarded in recognition of exceptional and sustained contributions to the understanding of the Arctic. A maximum of one award is made each year, assuming that there is a nominee of appropriate quality. The award of medals will normally be by the President of IASC during the Arctic Science Summit Week (or...