The University of Lapland, working together with the University of the Arctic, welcomes participation to the international multidisciplinary conference “Knowledge and Power in the Arctic”, at the University of Lapland, April 16-18, 2007.  

Leaders from 15 UArctic member institutions met at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, for the inaugural meeting of the UArctic Rectors’ Forum on March 14, 2007. The Forum was organized in conjunction with the Arctic Science Summit Week, the annual science gathering organized by the International Arctic Science Committ...

An international conference on Nature and Tourism, following  the theme Tools for Sustainability, will take place from May 22 to 24 at the Arktikum in Rovaniemi, Finland.

The Institute of the North has published the first issue of the Telegraph newsletter for the year 2007.

UArctic staff from most of the offices located across the Circumpolar North met for the annual UArctic staff retreat in Alta, Norway, from March 7 to 9.

The Northern Forum has published its Regional News newsletter for the week of March 12-18 2007.

The Norwegian Polar Institute and the Ministry of the Environment will host a conference on climate change as part of the World Environment Week in Tromsø on June 4 and 5.

The latest Arctic Future newsletter features an interview with UArctic Director of Administration and University Relations Outi Snellman as well as an article written by UArctic intern Alex Stubbing.

Researchers, politicians, administrators and students interested in regional development in the North attended the Borealis Conference 2007 in Alta, Norway, from March 5 to 7. 

The Association for Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is a new network which aims to bring together early career scientists from around the world who share an interest in the Polar Regions.

Registration for the fourth International Summer School (ISSK '07) in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, is now open.

Elena Sparrow, Director of the University of the Arctic Office for International Polar Year (IPY) Higher Education and Outreach, is pleased to welcome Barb Hameister as part-time administrative support.  

The Canadian IPY launch took place in Ottawa on March 1, 2007.

The UArctic International Secretariat has moved offices.

Just days before the official IPY launch, the Arctic Institute of North America has announced the completion on its first IPY project: the digitization of the Arctic journal.