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.

Are you passionate about weather, climate, modelling, sea ice, and the Arctic? Do you want to dig deeper into what this means for stakeholders and society? Join single webinars or the full APECS-APPLICATE online course "Advancing Predictive Capability of Northern Hemisphere Weather and Climate" in fall 2019.

The call is open until July 30, 2019 to PhD students from UArctic member institutions outside Québec working in the field of northern or Arctic research. The goal is to identify six finalists that UArctic will select to represent UArctic and present their work at the Arctic Circle Assembly (10-13 Oct 2019 in Reykjavik, Iceland).

Greenland Science Week is a multidisciplinary Greenlandic Arctic science conference surrounded by research-related workshops and public outreach. It builds bridges between science and the Greenlandic society, business community and government, and creates a networking and cooperation platform.

The five-month GEST programme is designed for professionals from government and non-governmental institutes, as well as for enthusiastic post-graduate students. For the spring semester 2020, GEST will for the first time accept two fellows from the Arctic region. Nominations are due June 30, 2019.

North Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk is hosting Arctic Summer School-2019, July 29 to August 15, 2019.

The investment of $4.5 million in UArctic is part of a larger $28.7 million Canadian federal government commitment to the Arctic to support Canada at the Arctic Council, the Sustainable Development Working Group, permanent participation capacity and youth engagement.

The latest issue of our annual magazine, Shared Voices, is now available online. In the 2019 issue we explore the impact of UArctic – what kind of a change the past two decades of UArctic programs and collaboration have helped create.

The application process for the 2020 Labrador Institute International Indigenous Intern has started! Apply by July 26, 2019.

The Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit Conference (November 12–13, 2019 in Rovaniemi, Finland) focuses on climate change in the Arctic, especially from the viewpoint of young people and future generations. Abstracts for the five sessions are due August 23, 2019.

The Arctic Awareness Week consists of the international symposium “Arctic Connections: A trust-building Arctic cooperation on Energy, Security and Blue Economy” (October 1) and the youth event "ZeroHackathon: Oceans and Polar Connections" (October 2-4).

Hosted by Lakehead University, Orillia campus, UArctic’s north2north coordination office arranged a north2north mobility partner institutions meeting on May 22-23. 

This event will bring together and engage representatives from various stakeholder groups and sectors, including the mining industry, indigenous peoples, government, and civil society organizations – with experiences and examples shared also from other regions in the Arctic (Canada, Sweden, Norway, Greenland). The panel discu...

This call for applications is open to PhD students from UArctic member institutions outside Québec working in the field of northern or Arctic research. The goal of this call is to identify six finalists that UArctic will select to represent UArctic and present their work at the Arctic Circle Assembly, held from 10 to 13 Octob...

General responsibilities will include travel planning, workshop planning support and implementation, assistance with ARCUS programs, and general administrative support. Application review begins April 26, 2019, but will remain open until filled.