In April 2011, the ICSU-WMO Joint Committee for the International Polar Year (IPY) will publish a summary of IPY activities in which the Committee and associated teams were directly involved.

On Thursday January 20, the European Parliament has adopted its report "A Sustainable EU Policy for the High North". The report constitutes the first step to a EU Arctic Policy.

The Tromsø High North Cluster (THiNC), Arctic Marine Ecosystem Research Network (ARCTOS) the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) as well as the University of the Arctic announce the Young Scientist Forum, an interdisciplinary annual event parallel to the Arctic Frontiers Conference in Tromsø.

The Sámi Education Institute will organize a 10 day – special training in the self-supervison of reindeer slaughterhouses, in Inari, Finland, on January 19 – 28, 2011. The training also covers the subjects of further processing and product development of reindeer products. The training is located in Inari, Finland and partly...

UArctic’s International Secretariat welcomes back Nikolas Sellheim who has returned to Rovaniemi. For the second time, Nikolas will be part of the International Secretariat.

The Université du Québec à Montréal, and the Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S. (ACSUS), would like to invite you to submit a paper proposal for the Arctic/North section for the 2011 Biennial Conference for ACSUS to be held in Ottawa 16-20 November 2011.

Call is open for Master’s students interested in health, security and wellbeing in the North. The number of students elected to the course is limited up to 15 students. Students are selected based on their previous studies and interest on Northern health and wellbeing. Course will run from January 24th until April 10th,...

An inernational scientific conference, "East meets West: oral tradition, epic text and representation in art" will be organized in Yakutsk, Russia June 15-17, 2011. The conference focuses on the questions of functioning of oral tradition on contemporary social and cultural context, problems, related to the study of fol...

AMAP – The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme is a Working Group under the Arctic Council with the objective to”providing reliable and sufficient information on the status of, and threats to, the Arctic environment and its inhabitants, and providing scientific advice on actions to be taken in order to support A...

The United States is the last of the four countries that voted against the UN Declaration to reverse its position. President Obama announced last Thursday, "The aspirations [the Declaration] affirms -- including the respect for the institutions and rich cultures of Native peoples -- are one we must always seek to fulfill...B...

The Canadian Circumpolar Institute has spent 50 years helping this country become a global leader in northern researchBy Lisa Gregoire

Eye on the Arctic gives voice to the nations on the front lines of climate adaptation.Eye on the Arctic is a collaborative partnership between public, private, and independent circumpolar media organizations.

The fall 2010 issue (#65) of the Polar Libraries Bulletin is now available at http://arcticcentre.ulapland.fi/polarweb/plc/pubs.asp.

On behalf of Joël Plouffe, Université du Québec à Montréal, and the Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S. (ACSUS), I would like to invite you to submit a paper proposal for the Arctic/North section for the 2011 Biennial Conference for ACSUS to be held in Ottawa 16-20 November 2011.

Now accepting abstracts for the 13th International Arctic Ungulate Conference. The online submission form can be accessed at www.abstracts.auc2011.ca. Abstracts will be accepted until May 31st, 2011.