Members of the UArctic Thematic Networks “Ageing and Gender in the Arctic” and “Health and Well-Being in the Arctic” gathered in Reykjavik for the final workshop of the project “Understanding ageing, gender and ethnicity: Experiences from European Arctic” (AGE-Arctic) August 29-30, 2023. The Nordic networking and research pro...

The webinar will take place on September 13, 16:00 CET. It partners with the UArctic TN on Health and Well-being in the Arctic, among other organizers and speakers.  

Article "Pristine or polluted? Pollutants are contaminating the Arctic. Climate change could make it worse" published in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), August 28, 2023. 

The Circumpolar Maternal and Child Health working group under the UArctic Thematic Network of Health and Well-being in the Arctic held its first workshop from the 2nd to 4th of June at the National Institute for Public Health (University of Southern Denmark) in Copenhagen.

UArctic Thematic Network on Frozen Arctic Conservation lead, Prof. John Moore and vice-lead, researcher Ilona Mettiäinen from the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland participated in the Arctic Momentum event in Helsinki on August 29 - September 1, 2023, as invited speakers.

Harvard Kennedy School’s Arctic Initiative and the partners will host a public webinar on Tuesday, September 12, on “Arctic Governance and Cooperation Through Conflict.”

The Arctic Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School announces the release of a package of seven issue briefs which provide short, informative overviews of climate-related challenges facing the U.S. Arctic.

The Scottish Arctic Network (ScAN) is introducing an Online Webinar Seminar Series. Find out more from this article and join the conversation!

In this video series, the finalists of the 2023 Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award talk about their ideas nominated for the Award. In the fourth and final video, Minik Thorleif Rosing explains what glacial rock flour is and how it can improve food security while capturing atmospheric CO2. 

A UArctic Member, University of Tasmania invites any UArctic team members who would be at 2023 European Association for International Education Conference to join them for the Australia Universities reception.

The International Conference "Engaging with Polar Regions: Science, Human Ecology and Geopolitics" (EPR 2023) will be hosted by the International Center for Polar Studies (ICPS) at Mahatma Gandhi University, India, on October 26-28, 2023.

The UArctic Frederik Paulsen High Level Seminar: Mine Bioremediation in the Arctic will take place on September 18-20, 2023 at Yukon University, Whitehorse, Canada.

The UArctic Entrepreneurship Fund is still accepting grant applications until October 27. The call is open to any individual with an incubator-stage product or service that aims to benefit the Arctic environment or Arctic communities and has a positive, demonstrable impact on the Arctic.

Global Innovation Network for Teaching and Learning is hosting a symposium on ‘Bridging education research, practice and global education development’ at this year’s FERA conference on education at the Åbo Akademi University in Vaasa on 23.-24.11.2023.

Recently, Jeff Birchall (Lead, UArctic TN on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience) and his co-author from the University of Alberta published "Climate change adaptation: How short-term political priorities trample public well-being", with the scientific journal Environmental Science and Policy.