Northern Notes, Issue 36 (Winter 2011/2012) is now available at http://iassa.org/images/stories/northernnotes_issue36.pdf

Student registrations for the "Snowtalks" PhD course People in a Changing World, organized by the UArctic Thematic Networks on Global Change and Health and Well-being in the Arctic, are now open. Please see the course page for more information.

UArctic's Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design is organizing a two-day (10th - 12th April, 2012) conference, Arctic Cinema and Applied Arts, which will take place at Inari, Finland, brings together national and international experts from the fields of culture, cinema and arts. The event will be of inter...

Arctic Yearbook 2012: “Arctic Strategies and Policies” ; Editor: Lassi Heininen, Northern Research Forum/UArctic-NRF Network on Geopolitics and Security, University of Lapland, lassi.heininen@ulapland.fi. Call for Abstracts (deadline): 1 March 2012 (200-250 words). Draft papers (deadline): 14 May 2012 (2500-5000 words)...

The Finnish-Russian Cross Border University networks (CBU and BCBU) announce their first joint summer school program entitled 'Multidisciplinary Dialogue – Wellbeing, Technology and Environment'. The 5-day course will be offered from the 27th to the 31st of August 2012, at the University of Lapland, in Rovaniemi, Finland.

“There was an ordinary lecture of pedagogy at Murmansk State Humanities University in October 2010. I was sitting on this lecture when a member of the international office came into the classroom and introduced the BNS-program (Bachelor of Northern Studies) as an international program for those who are interested in Ci...

The organizers of “Summer in Siberia-2012” program have made some changes in program dates.

This week the University of Akureyri hosts joint meetings of Ma-Mawi, UArctic's Strategic Area leads, and Thematic Network leads. These meetings will address the practical implementation of UArctic program delivery at all levels, as well as planing towards a new strategic plan starting from 2013.

A Thematic Network Conference will be arranged July 8, 2012 in conjunction with the Conference on Social Work and Social Development in Stockholm, Sweden (July 9-12, 2012). Program and details.

The University of Saskatchewan's International Centre for Northern Governance and Development is pleased to provide you with the first edition of its new monthly newsletter, ICNGD News. Please see attached (PDF format).

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has approved the UArctic project "Global Access to Northern Higher Education", granting funding of NOK 2 635 000 over three years. The project involves UArctic's GoNorth Office at the University of Tromsø, the International Secretariat at the University of Lapland, and the Research Of...

Returning from the UArctic Board meeting, President Lars Kullerud will today (Dec 9, 2011) visit several partners in Montreal, Canada including representatives of Makivik Corporation and University of Quebec à Montreal (UQAM). Makivik is already a member of the University of the Arctic, while avenues of potential future coope...

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...