Pat Pitney and David Read of the University of Alaska Fairbanks met with President Lars Kullerud and the UArctic International Secretariat this week (Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2010) in Levi, Finland to plan the establishment of a UArctic Finance Office.

Thematic network will focus on creating and developing an effective network model to promote environmental education for schools and higher educational institutions of Circumpolar North through establishment of a network consortium of partner universities – UArctic members.

The universities in Norwegian Tromsø and Russian Arkhangelsk are widening their field of cooperation. Last week a delegation from Arkhangelsk visited Tromsø, where it was agreed to give 15 Norwegian students grants to study in Arkhangelsk.via Barents Observer.

On November 24 and 25, 2010, a workshop on Indigenous economic development was hosted at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, BC, Canada.

The new UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Coastal and Marine Issues, led by University of Akureyri and University Centre of the Westfjords in common, represents an extremely important field within the Arctic, as live in the Arctic is heavily dependant on the sea and hardly imaginable without the sea.

The UArctic Core Course Revision Team (CCRT) participated in a workshop in Spetses, Greece, from October 21-23, 2010. This was the latest step in the revision process to update the BCS Core courses, being led by the UArctic Office of Undergraduate Studies in Saskatoon, Canada.

The EU Arctic Footprint and Policy Assessment study aims to improve the effectiveness of EU environmental policies with respect to the Arctic region.

A position is available at the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU), a public Norwegian agency that promotes international cooperation in education and research. Location Bergen, Norway.See posting (in Norwegian).

Equipped with mobile phones and computers, Mathis Persen Bongo has given reindeer herders an opportunity to pursue higher education, while herding reindeer. For that he has been named this year's online teacher in Norway.

1. Research Fellow in River Basin Research2. Research Fellow in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research in Environmental Sciences3. Research Fellow in Sustainable Resource Management and Material Efficiency

Ottawa reversed its three-year old opposition to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples saying the government envisions "a future in which Aboriginal families and communities are healthy, safe, self-sufficient and prosperous within a Canada where people make their own decisions, manage their ow...

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Climate variability, climate change and the societal/cultural transformations associated with globalization have been, and continue to be, responsible for major changes in the physical environment, the biota and the cultures of the indigenous and other communities in the Arctic.

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Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of AlaskaEdited by Aron L. Crowell, Rosita Worl, Paul C. Ongtooguk, and Dawn D. Biddison. Smithsonian Books