The University of Lapland and the Arctic Centre will be hosting the conference Knowledge and Power in the Arctic in Rovaniemi, Finland, from April 16-18, 2007. A first call for papers has been announced.

The Tourism at Work research project will host the Third International Winter Academy under the theme New Work in a Mobile Work in Rovaniemi, Finland, on 10-12 May, 2007.

The International PhD School for the Study of Arctic Societies (IPSSAS) invites Ph.D. students to submit their applications to the IPSSAS SEMINAR 2007 under the theme of “Living Communities. New Perspectives on Inuit Urban Life” to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from May 21 to May 31, 2007.

The first meeting of the UArctic Rector's Forum will take place at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire US, on March 14, 2007.

The city of Alta, Norway, will be host to the Borealis Conference 2007: Building capacity for sustainable places in the Circumpolar North - through a integrated local/global problem-solving perspective on March 5-7 2007. 

The Thematic Network on Global Change in the Arctic has made a new Global Change Course catalogue available online.

The Canadian International Polar Year newsletter for December has been published.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Global Change is looking for writers for six online courses on global change in the Arctic. 

The Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON) will be organizing the international fair exhibition Northern Civilization Region Expo 2007, in Moscow (All Russian Exhibition Center), April 25-27, 2007.

The Northern Forum has published its Regional News newsletter for December 4 to 10, 2006.

The UArctic Undergraduate Office, based in Saskatoon, Canada, has welcomed Emmy Stavøstrand Neuls as the new Program Assistant.

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has published the December edition of its quarterly Arctic Future newsletter.

A Memorandum of Understanding between UArctic and the University of Lapland on the role and functions of the UArctic International Secretariat at the University of Lapland for the next three years was signed on December 7, 2006.

The Arctic Frontiers conference, on the theme of Balancing Human Use and Ecosystem Protection, will take place in Tromsø, Norway, from January 21-26, 2007.    

Students on Ice will be organizing nine special Arctic and Antarctic expeditions between 2007-2009 as part as the International Polar Year program.