During the Arctic Spirit Conference 2023 in Rovaniemi, Finland Uula Jouste was one of the panel speakers in the session of “Arctic Climate interventions: an indigenous youth perspective” that was held on 15th of November 2023 at Arktikum.

A new book by Muthukrishnan, R. (Ph.D., Director of Research Compliance, Texas A&M University, San Antonio, Texas, USA), & Datta, R. (Ph.D., Canada Research Chair in Community Disaster Research at Indigenous Studies, Department of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is available now.

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) announces a call for nominations for the Board of Directors election. There are three seats up for election in a vote of the ARCUS Membership Council that will take place in December. Terms will be 3 years and begin in January 2024.

The Thematic Network on Northern & Arctic Islands, along with the Harris Centre, Memorial University is co-hosting the workshop, Northern & Arctic Islands Workshop: Setting the Agenda in St. John’s Newfoundland, December 6-8, 2023.



Marja Nykänen, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Finland and currently Acting Governor, was hosted by Outi Snellman (UArctic Secretary-General) and Johanna Ikäheimo (UArctic Board) during a visit to the University of Lapland.


Ilisimatusarfik- University of Greenland and Greenland Research Council are now working on developing ethical guidelines for research in Greenland. The guidelines will help promote locally anchored and culturally relevant research that contributes to sustainable societal development.

The EU-H2020 funded INTERACT (International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic) opens a call for research groups to apply for Transnational Access and Remote Access to 39 (TA) and 26 (RA) research stations.

The first Critical Arctic Studies Symposium was held in Rovaniemi 10-12 October 2023, and its theme was "Post-Human Dialogues: Rethinking human-nature relations in and through the Arctic". The blog post: "Reflections on the first Critical Arctic Studies Symposium" is written by Vesa Väätänen, post-doctoral researcher at the A...