The season for the Hokkaido Summer Institute (HSI) is approaching once again! More than 160 world-leading researchers from overseas will gather at Hokkaido University this summer for the HSI, which was established in 2016. HSI provides lectures with the university’s faculty members for four months during the summer.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law is pleased to announce release of the volume 6 of the Current Developments in Arctic Law.

Vice-Lead of the UArctic Thematic Network on Social Work, Asgeir Solstad describes how a new kind of meeting raised out of the ashes.

Handbook of Research on International Collaboration, Economic Development, and Sustainability in the Arctic has been published by IGI Global (USA). The book is edited by Vasilii Erokhin, Gao Tianming, and Zhang Xiuhua from Center for Russian and Ukrainian Studies, Harbin Engineering University.

Thanks to the north2north scholarship programme, Giuseppe Amatulli, PhD. student at Durham University, and part of the Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Resources and Social Responsibility, went on a staff mobility trip to the Copenhagen Business School (CBS).

Danish Agency for Higher Education (DAFSHE) is funding the project Sustainable Tourism Development in the Nordic Arctic. The Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics at University of Southern Denmark (SDU) is spearheading the project, examining the effects of Arctic economies broadening from resource extr...

UNESCO and UN are co-organizing International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019. The aim of the IY2019 is to raise awareness of the Indigenous languages, to support revitalization and maintenance of Indigenous languages and to empower Indigenous language speakers and cultures.

Improve your knowledge about Arctic issues and people by studying and experiencing life in another circumpolar institution. north2north mobility program enables you to experience life in another North while gaining international competencies that will benefit your future career and academic endeavours. 

Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS), in cooperation with Inuit Circumpolar Council Alaska (ICC), is accepting applications and nominations for Indigenous Scholar opportunities. The deadline is January 10, 2019.

The Board of Governors of UArctic gathered in Hanover for the annual board meeting, the meeting was hosted by Darthmouth College and took place from November 29 to December 1, 2018. The Board discussed legal review and fundraising, where GG+A led a fundraising workshop.

In November 2018, Prof. Timothy Skinner from the University of Copenhagen went to the University of Akureyri, Iceland, on a north2north staff mobility stay. The purpose of the stay was to visit the School of Health Science.

Dr. Hadley Friedland from the University of Alberta, holds a public keynote speech titled “The Recovery and Resurgence of Indigenous Laws” on Monday December 10 at 9 – 10.30 at Polarium Auditorium, Arktikum in Rovaniemi. The lecture will be streamed live on Arctic Centre's YouTube.

The Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education (DAFSHE) approved and is funding The Thematic Network on Northern Nursing Education new project: Interprofessional Education as an Innovative Pathway for a Culturally Relevant Health Workforce: A Greenlandic Model. The project is a collaboration between, University of Saskatc...

H.E. Kang Kyung-wha, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea, and H.E. Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, will make keynote speeches in the Opening Session of the 2018 Arctic Circle Korea Forum.

Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) opens for applications for their Visiting International Fellowship & Canadian-International Visiting Fellowship. OFI encourages trans-national training and help build better ocean leaders.