The latest issue of our annual magazine, Shared Voices, is now available online. In the 2020 issue we feature examples of climate action from our network: broader organizational efforts, personal and individual actions, and concrete examples from the grassroots level.

UArctic and Korea Maritime Institute (KMI) are pleased to announce an opportunity for 40 students from UArctic member institutions located in the 8 Arctic States to participate in the 6th Korea Arctic Academy online course together with 10 students from Korean universities.  

TN in Arctic Health announces a PhD course, Nuuk 31.10-02.11.2020. The course is organized by the Greenland Center for Health Research, University of Greenland, and invites doctoral students to apply for attending the PhD course focused on Indigenous knowledge, ethics and innovative community-based research methods in the Arc...

Conscious of the fact the COVID-19 world pandemic is still spreading aggressively, the organizing committee has decided to further postpone the planned international symposium on Plastics in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic region until March 2-4, 2021. The conference venue, remains unchanged: the Hilton Reykjavik Nordica Hotel Reyk...

Dear students and young researchers! From the 6th of July to 20th of July Arctic State Agrotechnological University holds Online International Scientific Summer School – 2020 on the theme: “Sustainable development of rural areas under conditions of global climate change”

The EU-PolarNet Webinar "Stronger together: European cooperation for Polar science and society - The Integrated European Polar Research Programme" was held on June 11th.

The UArctic TN on Arctic Law is pleased to announce the first call for papers for the 8th Volume of the Current Developments in Arctic Law (2020). The volume will be out in December 2020.

UAcrtic Thematic Network on Arctic Law is happy to announce the release of the book: “Wilderness Protection in Polar Regions - Arctic Lessons learnt for the Regulation and Management of Tourism in the Antarctic”. The book is published by Brill, and written by the network member Antje Neumann.    

The Fulbright Arctic Initiative brings together professionals, practitioners, and researchers from the 8 Arctic Council member states for a series of three seminar meetings and a Fulbright exchange experience to address key research and policy questions related to creating a secure and sustainable Arctic. The third round of t...

Polar Cooperation Research Centre (PCRC) is looking for a research fellow who can support the Centre’s polar legal research. The fellow must stay at the Centre in Kobe, Japan, during the fellowship. This position will be available for a maximum of three months stay in Kobe during the period of mid-October 2020 to the end of M...

Good health is not the mere absence of diseases. It is the result of a complex interplay between factors influencing our daily lives and the surrounding environment. However, increased human activities resulting in the loss of natural habitats imperil both healthy ecosystems and healthy humans. 

We at UArctic, together with the local host organizations in Iceland, have made the difficult decision to postpone the UArctic Congress (originally scheduled to take place in Reykjavik Oct 6-8, 2020) until May 2021 in conjunction with the Arctic Council Ministerial.

The Migration in the North 2020 Conference​ is postponed due to coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, and will be organised as a virtual conference in the autumn 2020. The new dates will be informed later. 

An International Arctic School will be held at Harbin Institute of Technology (China) between 6 and 17 July, 2020. 

With regard to the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19 Northern Arctic Federal University  transfers the II International PhD School “Russia in the Arctic Dialogue: Local and Global Context” for June 2021. The event will be held in Arkhangelsk within the framework of X International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS Х)