Scott Forrest, Information Manager at the UArctic International Secretariat has been attending the 2011 European Universities Public Relations and Information Officers association (EUPRIO) at the Czech Technical University in Prague. EUPRIO is an excellent resource for university communications staff to learn new developments...

The meeting is organized by NILU, The Norwegian Institute for Air Research, in advance of the NySMAC meeting on 27 October 2011.

The first UArctic TN Network on Social work conference 'Supporting Healthy Communities through Social Work' made a lot of new people familiar with this Thematic Network and opened new possibilities for cooperation.

Arctic Centre researchers Adam Stepien and Leena Heinämäki have designed and created new web-pages for the Thematic Network on Arctic Law.

 Come be part of an exciting program featuring the latest polar research results, thought-provoking keynote presentations from global leaders and outstanding sessions on how Arctic and Antarctic knowledge is being applied and used to enable people to live in, adapt to and benefit from our changing world.

The August 2011 issue of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) newsletter is available online. This issue highlights the contributions of early career researchers to polar science.

Date: Venue: University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland Organizers: Citizens' Global Platform (CGP) http://www.globalplatform.fi/, UN Association of Finland

Evgeny Shepelev is a student of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University (http://narfu.ru/en/), Arkhangelsk, Russia. His specialty is “Regional studies” and it concerns studying everything about the North of Europe – from culture to diplomacy.

International Arctic Science Committee For further information, please go to: http://dels.nas.edu/global/prb/iascFor questions, please contact: Jackie Grebmeier jgrebmei@cbl.umces.edu

The Marine Research Institute of Iceland will host a symposium on Cod Aquaculture at the University Centre of the Westfjords on Wednesday August 31. The symposium will focus on two subjects, Integrated Coastal Zone Management relating to Aquaculture and Knowledge Dissemination and Authorization for Aquaculture. The symp...

A new current, the North Icelandic Jet, discovered by UAkureyri/Uwestfjords professor Steíngrímur Jónsson and his colleague Héðinn Valdimarsson at the Marine Research Institute Iceland, has raised attention in the international scientific world. The current has been measured and mapped by the Woods Hole Oceanographic In...

Olga Bakhireva, leader of the Thematic Network on Environmental Training and Education for Sustainable Development of the Arctic (NETESDA) has moved to Syktyvkar State University. She was invited by the SSU Rector to chair  a new SSU Department – the Euro-Arctic Center of International Initiatives.

Winter Season 2011/2012 and Summer Season 2012.  New Submission deadline: Wednesday, 31 August 2011For further information, please go to: http://www.eu-interact.org/ For questions, please contact: Hannele Savela (hannele.savela@oulu.fi) or Kirsi Latola (kirsi.latola@oulu.fi)

Please find enclosed a call for papers for the 7th international conference organized by the International Laboratory for the Comparative Multidisciplinary Study of Representations of the North from Université du Québec à Montréal: "Mapping Northern Places: Memory, Abandonment, Oblivion". Proposals, in English or in French,...