The UArctic Research Area staff wishes all a happy summer! During the holiday season, our office will be working on a limited capacity. Both the Director of Thematic Networks Kirsi Latola and Coordinator Hannele Savela will be on holiday 4-29 July. Project Planner Outi Moilanen will be on holiday from 25 July until 1 August.

The 12th ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting will be held from 05 to 09 December 2016 at the RBC Convention Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The preliminary program will be available in July. The conference will take place at Ilisiamatusarfik, University of Greenland. The participation is free.

“Trans-Siberian Scientific Way” (TSSW) is the research centre at National Research Tomsk State University (Russia). Welcome to the Trans-Siberian intellectual journey!

The handbook entitled "Doing Community-Based Research" by Greg Halseth et. al. is a natural follow-up of the anniversary e-book about the Gargia-Oktemtsy conferences 2004-14, (2015) published jointly by UNBC, UiT, NEFU and the University of the Arctic. The handbook provides guidance on the community-researcher relationship in...

The first ever UArctic Marathon will be held in Rovaniemi, Finland on July 2, 2016.    

On June, 6-9 Yugra State University hosted the International symposium “Multidisciplinary experimental research of mire ecosystems and climate change in Western Siberia”. Scientists from Moscow State University, Siberian Branch RAS and University of Orleans, France participated in this event. All of them are involved in the e...

In its fourth call for proposals, NordForsk’s Nordic Health and Welfare Programme invites applications that utilise Nordic register data to answer research questions addressing grand societal challenges relating to health and welfare. A total of NOK 67 million is available for research projects, and the application deadline i...

Plasma Research and Education Center (REC Plasma) was opened at Petrozavodsk State University in the fall 2002. It brought together local research teams that focus on problems of fundamental physics. Now the Plasma Center unites scholars and researchers from all over the world. It is always open to new projects and collaborat...

Ural Federal University Innovation Infrastructure together with McKinsey & Company and United Machinery Plants Group has been developing the first Russian «Model Factory» in Ekaterinburg. It is aimed to provide enterprise workers and students with training in modern methods of industrial enterprise organization and workfo...

The Arctic Science Summit Week 2017 will be held in Prague 31 March - 7 April 2017. Call for sessions for the science symposium is open now, you can submit your proposals following this link. Session proposal can be submitted until 30 June 2016.

Fourth annual Arctic Circle Assembly will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland on october 7- 9, 2016. Registration is now open on: www.arcticcircle.org