A group of scholars at the University of Tromsø will host a conference on the cultural and scientific history of the transits of Venus, in Tromsø 2-3 June 2012. The conference takes place in Tromsø for two reasons. First and foremost, the last transit of Venus of our century lends itself to be observed on the disc of t...

The graduation ceremony of awarding “Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies” (BCS) diplomas will take place at Northern Arctic Federal University (NArFU) on the 29th of May. This year 15 students will receive their diplomas. The delegation from University of Nordland including Marit Sundet, (regional lead of the BCS program)...

The Calotte Academy 2012 will be organized from May 28 to June 4, 2012 in Rovaniemi and Inari (Finland), Kiruna and Abisko (Sweden), and Tromsø (Norway). The Calotte Academy is an annual travelling symposium for both academic and policy-oriented discussion and dialogue between scholars, scientists, and PhD students, as wel...

Seminar Education for Sustainable Development and the future we wantMay 29th 2012 at 9.00-12.00 Kehys' meeting room, Töölöntorinkatu 2B (5th floor).

The Third International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-3) which will be held in Tokyo (Japan) on 15 - 17 January 2013. Please visit the symposium website http://www.jcar.org/isar-3/ for more information and note that the second circular will be available mid July.

The Arctic Council Secretariat is currently seeking a Director. Please download the job posting in pdf-format.

Enagage! Seminar 28.5.2012 9.30-16.00 Rovaniemi City Hall Enagage! Seminar opens the the Arctic Circles Art & Design Summer School with inspirational presentations about service design, sustainability and applied arts, especially in the Arctic areas.

New inspiration on how to include findings from the Nordic Megatrends project into current policy strategies. To register, send an email including name, organisation, email and any special requests to klaus.georg.hansen@nordregio.se. Deadline for registration for the seminar is 23 May 2012. Visit the seminar’s webpage in or...

A prime objective since the founding of the Thematic Network on Managing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the North in June 2011 has been to fund activities within the network. Good news then is that the Thematic Network on Managing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises recently secured NOK 2.75 million (equivalent to...

Deputy Ministers of the Arctic Council met in Stockholm on May 15, 2012 together with the Permanent Participant Organizations and Arctic Council Observers. The meeting was chaired by the State Secretary for Foreign Policy of Sweden, Frank Belfrage. 

The United Nations mandated University for Peace Human Rights Centre is accepting applications for its annual field course entitled "Indigenous Peoples' Rights in the Field" that will take place from August 6 to August 12, 2012 in Costa Rica.

In September 2012 the 2nd International Festival of Amateur and Professional Films «Arctic Cinema» will take place at the NArFU campus, involving Russian and international experts and film-makers.

The North2North grant made possible for psychologist Eva Carlsdotter Schjetne to lecture about family therapy in Yakutsk.

The Northern Studies Virtual Conference invites students involved in undergraduate, masters, and doctoral studies to submit abstracts for the virtual conference to be held online on 28 August 2012. A virtual conference utilises the video conferencing capabilities of “smart classrooms” to established real-time video connection...

President of the University of the Arctic Lars Kullerud has been visiting University Centre in Svalbard. During his visit, he has met with the new director of UNIS, Ole Arve Misund, as well as, Mayor of Longyearbyen, Christin Kristoffersen.