Evgenii Alexandrov and Anatoli Burmistrov, Nord University and TN "Energy in New Time" introduce the new course for Master and PhD students.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Extractive Industries will once again organize a PhD course this summer. The course has the theme "Resource development versus other community sustainability options?" and takes place Aug 29 to  Sept 4, 2016 in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

The sixth Northern Political Economy Symposium, organized September 8-9, 2016 in Rovaniemi, Finland by the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, will discuss everyday life in the Arctic and various tactics of tackling the changes in it. This is the first call for abstracts, with the deadline of May 31, 2016.

The home base of the UArctic International Secretariat, the University of Lapland, is pleased to announce open championships for staff and students in running and Nordic walking, to be held as part of the Rovaniemi Marathon on 2 July.

The interview was published in Russian in the fourth issue of "UArctic Russian Newsletter" dedicated to the best practices of international cooperation within Thematic Networks' participants.

The Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station located in the Dronning Maud Land region of East Antarctica was designed and built by initiative of the International Polar Foundation and its partner organizations.  Since the 2008-09 Antarctic season the station has provided a unique platform for scientists interested in co...

The project “Reducing spring flood impacts for wellbeing of communities of the North” engages communities of interior Alaska State and central Sakha Republic in a dialogue on spring breakup floods of the Yukon and Lena Rivers. 

On 11-12 October 2016, the new research unit RAS at the Law Department of the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) will together with SDU’s Centre for War Studies convene a 2-day conference to explore the future of the Arctic Council. Deadline for abstracts: June 6, 2016.

North-Eastern Federal University will hold the Summer school from July 19 to August 2, 2016. The deadline to apply has been extended until  1 June. Apply today!

The Arctic Economic Council is hosting a Broadband Summit in Barrow Alaska on July 13-14, 2016.

The 4th issue of the newsletter concentrates on best practices of international cooperation within Thematic Networks. One of them is “Managing small and medium sized enterprises in the North”. Svein Johansen, Thematic Network and project leader shared his experience of multilateral cooperation in frames of the three-year proj...

Vera Gulina from Northern Arctic Federal University took part in the north2north exchnage and visited Aarhus University

The Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme is now inviting applications for the fourth call of its project grants. The deadline for this call has been extended until 30 November  2016.

In an article for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Heather Exner-Pirot (coordinator of the UArctic Thematic Network on Northern Nursing Education, managing editor of the Arctic Yearbook) from the University of Saskatchewan shares her experiences from Yakutsk and the challenges of nursing in remote areas - similar all across the Arc...

The University of Aberdeen will host next year's UArctic Rectors' Forum at its King's College Conference Centre, August 23-26, 2017. The theme of the meeting will be "The Inhabited Arctic: Lands, Peoples and Scholarship in the Circumpolar North."