On the 6th of September 2011 Bjorn Sagdahl (professor of the program “Bachelor of Northern Studies”) and Per Moller (coordinator of the program from Finnmark University College, Alta, Norway) visited MSHU. During the meeting with MSHU coordinator of the program Prof. Sagdahl and Mr. Moller informed about the students’ progres...

As a follow-up to last year’s highly successful Arctic Futures Symposium, the IPF will be organizing Arctic Futures Symposium 2011 in Brussels, Belgium October 12th – 14th in conjunction with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.

The Kingdom of Denmark is the latest Arctic state to adopt an offical strategy for the region. Significantly, the strategy recognizes the strong role of the University of the Arctic in promoting research and higher education in the Arctic, and pledges its support.

Murmansk State Humanities University is organizing an international seminar entitled, "Social and cultural mechanisms of everyday life in the Circumpolar world”, 28-29th November 2011 in Murmansk, Russia, and is seeking article submissions. The main topics of the seminar include the evolution of everyday culture in the c...

Leaders of Norway's parliamentary delegation to the Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region (CPAR) will visit Lars Kullerud, President of the University of the Arctic and GRID-Arendal on Wednesday, Sept 14, 2011. Among the issues to be discussed are the follow-up to the Green Growth in the Arctic seminar, as well...

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and the ArcticNet Student Association (ASA) announce a "From Knowledge to Careers" workshop opportunity, to be held in Montreal, Canada in conjunction with the IPY 2012 From Knowledge to Action conference. The workshop is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, 21-22...

The NCM was recently granted 1.8 mill DKR in support for three years to the project titled “Nordic Network and Roadmap Development for Welfare Technology (NeRo). The three UArcic member institutions are the University of Turku, Umeå University and the University of Tromsø. The coordinating institution is the University...

Every year around spring, the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) publishes its yearbook. Around 1500 copies of the IASC bulletin are widely circulated by mail and distributed at the Arctic Science Summit Week. For graphics and photographs we depend solely on what our council members, related research institu...

Being a partner in the aqua-tnet Socrates Thematic Network on Aquaculture, Fischeries and Aquatic Resource Management, UWestfjords' director, Dr. Peter Weiss, ic currently joining aqua-tnet's annual meeting in Faro, Portugal, as well as a aqua-tnet group meeting on establishing and enhancing MSc-Programmes within aquacu...

Help build sustainable prosperity in Canada’s North Canada’s northern communities, environment, and resources are receiving much attention from governments, businesses, and the media across Canada and around the world. Global economic growth is creating a new hunger for the resources that the North holds in...

Presentation made by Jean-François Arteau, Legal Counsel and Executive Assistant to the President of Makivik Corporation Pita Aatami. Makivik (www.makivik.org) is the organization that represents the 10,000 Inuit in Nunavik, northern Quebec, Canada. The Presentation was made at the 6th Open Assembly of the North...

Under the theme "Our Ice Dependent  World, the sixth Northern Research Forum (NRF) successfully took place on the 4th and 5th of September in Hveragerdi, Iceland. Dr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland (pictured) as well as Kupik Kleist, the Premier of Greenland, spoke during the opening session.

Mona Johnson, Chair of UArctic’s Mobility Strategic Area, gave a presentation on How Mobility and other UArctic programs can be used to communicate new knowledge at the 6th Northern Research Forum Open Asembly in Iceland on September 5 in a session moderated by President Lars Kullerud.