Department of Animal Nutrition and ManagementSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, SwedenApplication Deadline: Friday, 13 March 2009

 To what extent is higher education today a driver for sustainable development in the national and international context? Does the sector live up to the expectations placed in it to induce change and progress in society and to act as one of the key factors for building knowledge-based societies?

GRID-Arendal is seeking a Head of the Polar Programme to take the lead in further developing GRID-Arendal as UNEP’s key Polar centre to identify, develop and implement projects related to climate change, environmental governance, ecosystems management and environmental information and networking, with a specific focus on the...

With the changing climate in the Polar Regions comes an increasing need for better cooperation between scientists and policy makers. As early career researchers, we have an important challenge not only to do great science, but to find ways to work with policy makers to set the direction of cooperation in the Arctic and Antar...

The theme of this issue of Indigenous Affairs is IWGIA's 40 years of work for indigenous people. It contains articles about Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Arctic.Editors: Mark Nuttall, Diana Vinding and Kathrin Wessendorf.

The following extract is written by Karen Routledge, who wants to introduce a Summer program in northern Canada for undergaduate students.

The deadline for abstract submission for the 14th International Congress on Circumpolar Health - Securing the IPY Legacy: From Research to Action is January 31, 2009.

Fostering Global Engagement through International EducationMay 24-29, Los Angeles, California

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is currently gathering information regarding upcoming field schools, training workshops, and short courses covering topics dealing with the polar regions and/or the cryosphere, for its Field Schools Project (Part of IPY Endorsed Project #168).

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is seeking motivated PhD candidates for our Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and Subarctic (MESAS) program. This interdisciplinary NSF-funded IGERT program incorporates social and natural sciences to explore ecosystem approaches to managing and studying living marine reso...

The Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU) invited to a conference in Tromsø, 21-23 January 2009, in cooperation with the University of Tromsø.