Extended abstract submission deadline for the Arctic Science Summit Week (27 March - 1 April, 2011 in Seoul, Korea):Saturday, 15 January 2011 For more information, please visit the http://www.assw2011.org or contact assw2011@kopri.re.kr.

The PhD training course "People in changing wolrd" was held at the University of Oulu, Finland in November 15-17, 2010. For more information see the Thematic Networks page.

Call for Applications at the University of Lapland: 1.12.2010 – 18.2.2011.

The fourth  PhD training course will be held in March 19-23, 2012 at Abisko Scientific Research Station, Sweden. The course is titled "Snowtalks" and will conclude the climate change effects on people and environment in the North where snow is a very important factor. Find out more from the Global Change Thematic Networks page.

Arctic Frontiers Conference, Tromsö, Norway, January 23-28, 2011

Circumpolar Perspectives in Global Dialogue: Social Sciences Beyond the IPY JUNE 22-26, 2011, AKUREYRI, ICELAND

Indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East do have the future!On November, 23rd in Moscow the First Congress of youth - significant event in the history of youth movement of indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East - has come to an end.

While development aid is nominally targeted at improving the ‘human security’ of indigenous peoples, in practice it functions to depoliticize them, shaping and conditioning the forms of subjectivity their life may take, such that they may be more amenable to liberal governance. Thus is it necessary for indigenous communities...

Call for Proposals / Appel de propositions (pour de détails en francais)The Northern Governance Thematic Network of the University of the Arctic, with support from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, is pleased to announce 10 available fellowships for graduate students, valued at $5,000 each.

University of the Arctic and its 126 members across the Circumpolar Northcongratulates the Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary..

Pat Pitney and David Read of the University of Alaska Fairbanks met with President Lars Kullerud and the UArctic International Secretariat this week (Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2010) in Levi, Finland to plan the establishment of a UArctic Finance Office.

Thematic network will focus on creating and developing an effective network model to promote environmental education for schools and higher educational institutions of Circumpolar North through establishment of a network consortium of partner universities – UArctic members.

The universities in Norwegian Tromsø and Russian Arkhangelsk are widening their field of cooperation. Last week a delegation from Arkhangelsk visited Tromsø, where it was agreed to give 15 Norwegian students grants to study in Arkhangelsk.via Barents Observer.

On November 24 and 25, 2010, a workshop on Indigenous economic development was hosted at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, BC, Canada.

The new UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Coastal and Marine Issues, led by University of Akureyri and University Centre of the Westfjords in common, represents an extremely important field within the Arctic, as live in the Arctic is heavily dependant on the sea and hardly imaginable without the sea.