Barents Education Network is launching a tender for carrying out a feasibility study "Prospects of the Barents Education Network in Formation of the Barents Region Higher Education Area". It is aimed to assist a comprehensive needs assessment for continuous network existence and potential of enlarged network that concerns hig...

Professor Atte Korhola, from the University of Helsinki, gave a lecture at the Arktikum during a visit to Rovaniemi on November 21.

UNEP/GRIP-Arendal  celebrated the opening of their new headquarters, the UN house, on Wednesday, November 22.

The International Cooperation in Higher Education - the High North dimension conference, organized jointly by Bodø University College and the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU), will take place in Bodø on February 13-14 2007.

What is social policy? What forms of social policies exists under different political regimes? And how do citizens experience social policies? Such questions were on the agenda of the first 10-point joint bachelor-level course that Bodø University College and Pomor State University run together.  

The European Union Erasmus Mundus-funded GoNorth! project met for a planning meeting at Roskilde University in Roskilde, Denmark, on 15-17 November 2006. The meeting was hosted by Professor Rasmus Ole Rasmussen and chaired by Astrid Revhaug, the project leader for the GoNorth! project as well as the Programme Chair for UArct...

The International Polar Year (IPY) Education, Outreach, and Communication (EOC) sub-committee held its first meeting in Bremerhaven, Germany, on October 19-21, 2006.

Brandon M. Ilgen will replace Jessica Thiessen as Director of the Arctic Youth Network (AYN).

The Arctic Athabaskan Council (AAC) has published the fifth edition of its newsletter.

The Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat has a revised website available at www.arcticpeoples.org .

Ten years after its establishment, the Arctic Council continues to grow. Over the years, it has become a major tool for cooperation between the eight Arctic States, allowing them to tackle the common challenges they are faced with today.

Kuratorisk Aktion and the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA) will be launching the Rethinking Nordic Colonialism documentation DVD and website on November 25. 

Asgeir Solstad will replace Ståle Sårheim as lead of the Thematic Network on Social Work as of December 1st, 2006.

Norway officially took over the Chairmanship of the Arctic Council for the next two years with a symbolic passing of the gavel ceremony at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Salekhard, Russia, on October 26, 2006.

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Arctic Council and the fifth Arctic Council Ministerial meeting, the Ministers representing the eight Arctic states, convening in Salekhard, Russia, signed the Salekhard Declaration on the 26th of October, 2006.