The APECS-UArctic Science Communication Workshop is organized in connection with the UArctic Congress 2018 in Oulu, Finland on 3 September. Participants will be expected to work on tasks throughout the duration of the congress. Deadline for applications is on Sunday 13 May 2018.

UArctic Congress 2018 will feature a strong array of political and scientific leaders who will engage with the main themes of the event. 

The UArctic Congress 2018 social program will offer participants many different opportunities to discover Oulu and Helsinki. These events highlight Finnish nature and culture, where you can also relax and meet with your fellow Congress attendees. The full details of these events can be found from the Social Program.

The registration for the UArctic Congress 2018 is now open. The deadline for the Call for Abstracts has also been extended until March 26, 2018 (16:00 CET).

The “IASSA Working Group Gender in the Arctic” hosts an IASC-SHWG funded workshop on 6th of September 2018 in Oulu/Finland as a side meeting to the UArctic Congress. The deadline for papers is 1 April 2018.

On September 6th and 7th, the University of Helsinki will host a non-academic side event, “Women of the Arctic: Bridging Policy, Research, and Lived Experience”, as a part of the second leg of the UArctic Congress 2018.

The world’s climate is changing, particularly in the Arctic. Here, the changes will not only affect local communities, permafrost and ecosystems; they will have an impact on the rest of the world. The Arctic plays a special role in the global climate system, and the University of Helsinki is very proud of its versatile and mu...

The Call for Abstracts for the UArctic Congress is now open until March 16, 2018. We welcome submissions to more than fifty science sessions to be held in Oulu from September 5 and concluding in Helsinki on September 7, 2018.

When I was growing up, the University of Oulu was a natural choice for a place to study. During my master studies, I saw the fast development of the ‘miracle of Oulu’, which was a name for rapid development of electronics and ICT-industries in Oulu. At the same time, I witnessed a decline in mining and forest cluster industri...

The new portal at congress.uarctic.org will be continuously updated with new information as we get closer to the second UArctic Congress, organized in Oulu and Helsinki, Finland on September 3-7, 2018.

Prince Albert of Monaco will give the main opening address at UArctic Congress 2018 in Oulu, as an invited guest of UArctic and University of Oulu rector Jouko Niinimäki.

The science section of the UArctic Congress will start in Oulu on Sept 5 and conclude in Helsinki on Sept 7, 2018. The call for session proposals is open until Sept 30, 2017.

The call for session proposals for the UArctic Congress has been extended until October 15, 2017 (submission form).

The University of Oulu and the University of Helsinki are excited to invite you to the second UArctic Congress, September 3-7, 2018.