Each year the Swiss Confederation awards Government Excellence Scholarships to promote international exchange and research cooperation between Switzerland and over 180 other countries. Recipients are selected by the awarding body, the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS).

The Thematic Network on Permafrost/Natural hazards summer course was held in the North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk in August 2016. The summer field school aimed to provide the students with an overview of the many different research topics related to permafrost, ranging from geoscience, engineering, bioscience to soci...

The UArctic Thematic Network on Communicating Arctic Research, also known as SubZero, has just launched their new website at sub-zero.org. The new website introduces the purpose of the network and the people behind SubZero, and most importantly features several visual projects done within the framework of the Thematic Network.

The chairmanship of Arctic Council will be forwarded from the USA to Finland early 2017. UArctic and our network will play an important role in that and the symposium will be an important check point in the planning process.

The Call for proposals for the Nordic Master programme is now open until 22nd September 2016. The Nordic Master (NM) is the Nordic Council of Ministers’ funding programme, which offers financing for joint Nordic Master’s programmes based on research, excellence and high quality.

The deadline for submitting the proposals is Thursday 22nd September 2016.

Adam Stepien from Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland was visiting Aarhus University, Department of Political Science and Department of History.  

From the middle of August, the UArctic Thematic Networks and Research Liaison office welcomed a new addition to their team.

The best poster and oral presentations by Young Scientists in the Science Section will be awarded in the closing session of the UArctic Congress on Fri 16th Sept. The prizes are sponsored by Springer Nature.

Tyumen State University (Russia) presents a new research project – BRICS Law Journal. Though BRICS is an association of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the journal is an open forum for the dialogue between legal scholars in BRICS countries as well in the whole world. You are welcome to make a contribution on Ar...

'' Education is a social institution that determines the development of society. Being connected with other social institutions, it largely reflects the socio-political and economic contradictions in any country. The study and comparison of education systems in European countries would work out a common strategy for the devel...

The IASSA Secretariat reminds of the upcoming ICASS IX 2017 at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden, June 8 to June 12 2017. Session proposals for the conference are due September 23, 2016.

Do you want to explore Northern Tourism in the context of the beautiful and unique nature and culture of Varanger? Are you interested in learning together with students from Canada, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Norway? Do you want to be taught by a group of international tourism scholars and researchers? We, the participants...

Yugra State University hosted the VI International Meeting on the Biology of Sphagnum on 1-11 August. This was the first time when it was held in Russia. 35 researchers from different countries studied distribution of numerous Sphagnum species in Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra.

The 2016 Arctic Circle Assembly is two months away. A number of governments, corporations, universities, organizations, associations, think tanks and other institutions are already preparing their participation in the fourth Assembly.