After a first encounter with Russia during a university field trip, Tyler Wood was looking for ways to go back to a country that fascinated him. The north2north program was just what he was wishing for.   Thanks to the UArctic mobility program, Wood, 22, a student at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), Can...

The Ookpik website - a portal for young Northerners -  is calling on Arctic youth from all circumpolar countries to submit creative written or artistic works to be posted online.

The Indigenous Peoples International Polar Year was lauched with an official opening ceremony on February 14 in Kautokeino, Norway.

The International Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) has recently made two major announcements regarding the 8th International ACUNS Student Conference, which will take place in Saskatoon from October 19 to 21, 2007.

Norway will host the international World Environment Day 2007 international celebrations during the first week of June.

Five UNIS students have decided to chronicle their lives in Svalbard in a blog hosted by the IPY website.

The International Polar Year (IPY) will take place from March 07 – March 09. Numerous countries involved in IPY are having opening ceremonies around the beginning of March.

The UArctic north2north mobility program has continued to grow in 2006, with a major leap in the number of students from all over the Circumpolar North who took advantage of the exchange opportunities.

The University Centre of Svalbard (UNIS) will be offering Arctic Plant Ecology (AB-326), a summer field course, from July 8 to August 3, 2007.

Akureyri, Iceland, will be the host of the Breaking the Ice conference on Arctic development and maritime transportation on March 27 and 28, 2007.  

The Arctic Council has launched a new website to serve as gateway to Arctic related information.

UArctic's Director of Administration Outi Snellman gave a presentation at the International Cooperation in Higher Education - the High North dimension conference,  which took place in Bodø, Norway, on February 13-14.

The Arctic Frontiers conference took place from January 21-26, 2007 at the University of Tromsø, Norway.

The organizing committee for the 8th International ACUNS Student Conference - Melting Boundaries: Carrying Out Effective Research in the Circumpolar World -  has released a second call for abstracts for the event to be held October 19-21, 2007 in Saskatoon, Canada.

The Northern Forum has published its Regional News newsletter for the week of February 5 to 11.