The Centre for Mountain Studies (CMS) is based in Perth, Scotland, at Perth College UHI, an Academic Partner of the UHI Millennium Institute (the future University of the Highlands and Islands). This new post is to fill a key need at the CMS associated with effective communication and knowledge transfer activities bet...

Applicants wanted for a temporary 'Climate Change Communicator' post, to work in Scotland, the Nordic countries and Greenland. The Centre for Mountain Studies (CMS), based in Perth, Scotland at Perth College UHI, an Academic Partner of the UHI Millennium Institute (the future University of the Highlands and Islands), is seek...

The Triple I Project consortium, University of Turku as the coordinator together with ten Russian universitiess and eight other European universities, is applying for EU funding to continue the Erasmus Mundus Mobility Project in 2010-2011.

The Calotte Academy is once again ready to embark on its annual tour of the Barents region. The group, comprised of academics and students from Finland, Russia, Canada, France, Norway and Germany will be making stops in Salla (Finland), Apatity (Russia), Murmansk (Russia), Kirkenes (Norway) and Inari (Finland) on its Barents...

The UArctic Office of Undergraduate Studies hosted a Workshop on March 15-16, 2010 in Saskatoon to develop the student evaluations for the Circumpolar Studies Core Courses. The development of the course evaluations is an important component of the revisions of the core courses, and the academic quality assurance process.

Nordic higher education institutions are welcome to apply for funding up to 1 million DKK for the development of Nordic Master Programmes. 

The International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) invites contributions for the next issue of the Northern Notes Newsletter. Contributions are invited from both members and non-members of the Association on issues of interest to arctic social scientists. Articles, reports, announcements or reviews (books, films, e...

There will be to groups for "Alive Arctic Art" and "Plain Air" courses. We invite students, post-graduate students, teachers, researchers all those who are interested in culture of Indigenous peoples of Siberia and Circumpolar region to take part in courses of our Summer School !

Yakutsk State University, Faculty of Geology and Survey and “Mineral raw material resources and evaluation technologies” research educational center invite undergraduate and post-graduate students to join Summer Geological School.

Lakehead University, located in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, is excited to announce that NORT 1111: Introduction to the Circumpolar World (equivalent to BCS 100) will be taught during their Spring 2010 session – May 25-June 15 – for the first time simultaneously on campus and will also be media-streamed on the Internet. Stud...

An interdisciplinary experience in Polar Studies In celebration of the IPY 2007-09 year, this three-week course will focus on environmental change in the Arctic and Antarctica through a series of lectures and field excursions in Svalbard, Norway. The course will cover topics on Glaciology, Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography,...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) seeks candidates for a two-year postdoctoral research opportunity: The Relationship between Climate and Ice Rheology at Dome C, East Antarctica. The position will be based in Fairbanks, Alaska.

The Environment and Natural Resources Institute at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is recruiting an ecosystem ecologist for a postdoctoral position on a new National Science Foundation (NSF) project with field studies in northwest Greenland. The position will be based in Anchorage, Alaska.

The International Barents Secretariat (IBS) seeks an Adviser on project funding and environmental issues. The position will be based in Kirkenes, Norway. The successful candidate will promote project funding for the multilateral cooperation in the Barents region. The adviser will also assist in maintaining a key database on e...

The first of two volumes written by members of the international IPY consortium 'The Political Economy of Northern Regional Development' is now available.