The Call for Abstracts for the IPY 2012 From Knowledge to Action Conference is closed and over 2100 abstracts were received from 46 countries. Featuring the latest research results from both the Arctic and Antarctic, the conference will provide an opportunity to network with polar experts and consider ways to translate...

The new study, "Mapping mobility in European higher education" has now been published electronically by the European Commission, for whom it was produced. It was written by ACA and INCHER (University of Kassel), in cooperation with ACA members DAAD and CampusFrance, as well as HIS (Hannover). Mapping mobility is a sequel to A...

12 October, 2011, the Institute of the Northern Peoples of the Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University hosted the International  Workshop Conference “Reality of Ethnos: Northern Dimension”. The conference was organized in collaboration with Research Institute of Arctic and Sustainable Development of Indigenous People w...

UArctic's Thematic Network on Distance Education and e-Learning is organizing a workshop from Nov 21-25, 2011 at the University of Tromsø, Norway: "Students’ scientific cooperation between Murmansk State Humanities University and the University of Tromsø." See program. For more information contact steinar.thorvaldsen@uit.no o...

Close to 100 attendees representing government, industry, community leaders, academia, and NGOs took part in the first ever Greenlandic oil and gas key stakeholder dialogue designed to discuss and address key issues regarding oil and gas development in Greenland. UArctic's Thematic Network 'Energy in New Time' was involv...

Having been member of the UArctic since 2006, the University Centre of the Westfjords has established an intensive relationship with the Higher Education Institutions of the high north and is an active part of UArctic.

Several articles have appeared in the Canadian media in reaction to the Canadian government's budget decisions that saw funding for the University of the Arctic drastically cut.

The Arctic Frontiers (AFT) conference is a central arena for discussions of arctic issues. The conference brings together representatives from science, politics, and civil society to share perspectives on how upcoming challenges in the Arctic may be addressed to ensure sustainable development.

Two of the members of UArctic Thematic Network in Indigenous Arts and Crafts, Sami University College in Guovdageaidnu and Sami Educational Centere in Jokkmokk, Sweden have completed a joint education project. The project lasted one acadmic year, from August 2010 to June 2011. It was a 30 credits course in duodji (Sami...

The University of Québec at Montréal hosted the two-day “Arctic in Transition: Regional Issues and Geopolitics” conference. The Centre Jacques Cartier, ArcticNet, and the Northern Research Forum (through the University of the Arctic and the University of Lapland) also helped organize the conference. Its main purpose was to an...

The theme of Arctic Frontiers 2012 is energy in the High North, under the banner of 'Polar Might.' The UArctic EALAT Institute at the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry is preparing a session on impact assessment related industrial development in the Arctic.

UArctic's Thematic Network on Arctic Law, co-chaired by the Arctic Centre's (University of Lapland) Timo Koivurova, has been engaged in a variety of new activities. Professor Koivurova, together with Professor Betsy Baker of the Vermont Law School, will edit a special Arctic issue of the prestigious journal Carbon & Clima...

A special Arctic issue of Nature has now been published, featuring articles contributed by past UArctic Board Chair Oran Young, current President Lars Kullerud, and Lawson Brigham of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the UArctic Institute of Applied Circumpolar Policy. Read more online at Nature.

North- Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosov under “The NEFU Development Program” activity 2.25 “Development and Realization of Cooperative Research under Strategic Cooperation between leading Russian and International Universities and Scientific Centres" is organizing an  Interdisciplinary Scientific Seminar: C...