Northern (Arctic) Federal University in Arkhangelsk, North-West Russia, is pleased to announce the II International PhD School “Russia in the Arctic Dialogue: Local and Global Context” to be held on 13-20 June, 2020 as a side event of the X International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS Х)

A field-based training course for graduate/post-doc level snow scientists on state-of-the-art snow measurement techniques will take place at Col du Lautaret, France from February 16th through the 22nd. The focus topic for the year is "Snow in a changing climate, impact on humans and nature".

North2North staff mobility program gave the opportunity to two researchers from Aarhus University, Pau Giménez-Grau and Ada Pastor, to visit Dr. Suzanne Tank at University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada).

Call for proposals for the Arctic week 2019 in Paris. The Arctic week 2019 will take place from December 9 to 13 at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris. The event will be chaired by Ségolène Royal, ambassador for the poles.

A tradition of UArctic Rectors' Forums is for the participating students to publish a Student Declaration, outlining their vision and highlighting key issues for the assembled rectors and UArctic's leadership. The Declaration from the 2019 meeting at Trent University follows.

Call for papers. "Governing Urban Natures: Infrastructure, Citizenship and Municipal Ecologies" A collaborative conference at Aarhus University (Faculty of Arts)

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 7th Volume of the Current Developments in Arctic Law, which will be published in December 2019.

A webinar about the Nordic Master programme and application round for 2019 will take place on Thursday 12 September 2019 at 13.00-14.30 EEST (Finnish time). The webinar will be held in English.

‘‘Food (in)Security in the Arctic: Contribution of Traditional and Local Food to promote Food Security with Particular Reference to the European High North” project team has gathered for the third time from 26th to 27th of August at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. 

BiodivERsA international 2019-2020 COFUND Call for transnational research proposals on “Biodiversity and Climate Change”: The results of the first step were communicated to the applicants on the 14th of February 2020. Considering the current Covid 19 situation, the deadline to submit full proposal for step 2 has been postpone...

A new call for funding is available for collaborative research projects on Nordic societal security in light of the emerging global and regional trends. The total amount of funding available for this Nordic call is set at NOK 44 million and the deadline for the submissions is 20 November 2019.

The European Research Council (ERC) launched its Synergy Grant Scheme. Deadline: 5 November, 2019.

NordForsk is issuing a call for proposals for Nordic Research Infrastructure Hubs. The call has a budget of NOK 17 million and the deadline for the call for proposals is 22 October 2019.

The Government of Iceland, in collaboration with the Nordic Council of Ministers, hosts the International Symposium on Plastics in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Region in April 21-23, 2020 in Reykjavik in connection with the Icelandic chairmanship of the Arctic Council. Registration and call for abstracts are now open for the event.

The first Winter School, sponsored by the International Project Office, and hosted by the Harbin Institute of Technology, will be held by the International Arctic School, HIT (IAS HIT) on the topic of “To understand: Arctic Environment and Ecosystem” in the beautiful city of Harbin from January 5-12.2020