The next UArctic Rectors' Forum is planned to take place at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland on February 27-29, 2008. The meeting will be organized in conjunction with the meeting of the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region (SCPAR).

The Council of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) has decided to establish three Regional Offices of Undergraduate Studies. The three offices will be responsible for the distance degree completion delivery of UArctic’s Circumpolar Studies Program within their respective regions: North America, Russia, and the Nordic-Baren...



A special session dedicated to northern students and northern research policy has been incorporated into the prorgramme of the upcoming 8th International Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) Student Conference on Northern Studies, to take place at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada,...





Text: Asgeir Solstad Photo: Peter Glanfield It was a true international course. The approx. 25 students came from Cameroon in south to Canada in the north. And the teachers came from Russia, Norway, Canada, USA, Finland and Sweden. The first course on master level in “Social Policy in the High North” was held at Bodø Univers...

Papers are invited for the session "Human Dimensions of the Arctic System - Expanding the Framework for Research" at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2007 Arctic Division Annual Meeting to be held on 24-26 September 2007 in Anchorage, Alaska.

The International Polar Year (IPY) International Sea-Ice Summer School, which is part of UArctic’s IPY Cluster for Higher Education and Outreach, was successfully completed 2-13 July 2007 at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) in Longyearbyen.