UArctic financially supported the project “The first thousand days of Inuit children in the Arctic” under the Thematic Network on Health and Well-being in the Arctic. In August 2024 a midwife, a public health nurse, four policy makers and two researchers from Nuuk travelled to Iqaluit to attend the Inuunguiniq workshop.

Recently, Desiree Rose and S. Jeff Birchall, from the UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience and the University of Alberta, published ‘Bolstering community resilience through health-focused climate change adaptation: moving from talk to action in Western Canadian communities’, with the...

In September 2023, the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law of the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland initiated the first “Inter-Polar Conference: Connecting the Arctic with the Third Pole” in Kathmandu, Nepal, in the heart of the Third Pole.  

In this video series, the finalists of the 2024 Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award talk about their award-nominated ideas. In the third and final video, Allison Fong and Amy Lauren talk about Studio Impact and merging art, storytelling, science, and technology for impactful narratives and action on climate change.

Submit an abstract by September 30, 2024 for a chance to partake in the ICARP IV Summit, taking place March 25-28, 2025 in Boulder Colorado.

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. has opened registration for an online seminar presentation entitled Sustainability of Indigenous Communities and Global Change: perspectives from Sakha, NE Siberia.

The 8th annual United States Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) Polar Film Festival (PFF) will take place September 23-27, 2024, including a Filmmaker's Roundtable on the 25th.

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) invites applications for conference travel grants for early career researchers.

The European Polar Board's (EPB) Action Group on Environmental Impacts of Polar Research and Logistics and the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) are hosting a webinar series via Zoom around the theme of minimising the environmental impacts of polar research.

The 10th International Conference on Arctic Margins (ICAM) will be held in Bremen, Germany on March 16-21, 2025. The abstract submission deadline is on October 1, 2024.

Are you interested in climate change? Have you thought of applying for a student exchange? CLUVEX (Climate University for Virtual Exchanges) is a multidisciplinary international student exchange week held online. 

The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) Masters and PhD course AG351/851, “Arctic Tectonics and Volcanism,” successfully concluded its 2024 edition in Svalbard.

The Arctic Science journal of Canadian Science Publishing is in search of papers for its upcoming “Fifty years of research at Toolik Field Station: Observing and understanding Arctic change” collection. Submissions can be made until January 31, 2025.

Jan Borm, UArctic Chair in Humanities, participated in the conference "The Arctic in Eastern and Central Europe: Knowledge, Perception and Communication,  17th -19th century" where he held a presentation on his paper "The Arctic Voyage of the corvette ‘Reine Hortense’ in 1856: Prince Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte’s meeting with t...

Former UArctic Board Officer Barry Scherr passed away September 12, 2024 at the age of 79.