Yukon College and UArctic announce a new online course, International Polar Year IV: Context and Promise.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Local and Regional Development in the North will play a key role in the Borealis Conference 2007 in Alta, Norway, from March 5 to 7.

Permafrost Environmental Consulting has produced the Engineering Resource Library "Pipelines in Permafrost and Freezing Ground" to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Canada-France Ground Freezing Project.

 

The work of the global change curriculum is continuing with the new funding granted by the Nordic Council of Ministers in January 18th. This funding, 400 000 DKK, will be used for curriculum development, which started a year ago also with NCM funding and is now continuing with the actual online course planning in the Master’...

IPY has produced a new brochure about the program and its activities.

Anyone interested in launching a new Thematic Network should send an Expression of Interest and a support letter from the head of the host institution to the UArctic Thematic Network Coordination Office by February 26, 2007.    

The Canadian International Polar Year newsletter for January 2007 has been published.

The annual Erasmus Mundus project coordinators' meeting will take place in Brussels on February 1st and 2nd.

The Nordic Council of Ministers has decided to fund 22 projects in the Arctic.

The UArctic website has a new feature: an events calendar which includes all events and activities involving UArctic and its partners and taking place across the Circumpolar North.

The annual UArctic staff retreat will take place in Alta, Norway, from March 7 to 9, 2007.

UNEP/GRID-Arendal has announced a vacancy for the position of Head of Communications.

When Russian student Oxana Bulanova left for Norway for a semester abroad, she didn’t know what to expect. Three months later, she found herself wishing she could stay longer.  

The University College of the North (UNC) is inviting submissions for the upcoming conference Northern Voices - Northern Realities to be held in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada on May 15th and 16th, 2007.