ARKTIS –Graduate School´s Guest Lecture August 27th at 14.00 – 15.00 at Arktikum –house, Aurora lecture room

The Government of Canada has published a booklet outlining its Arctic Foreign Policy, which includes highlighting UArctic as an important partner. You can read the entire "Statement on Canada's Arctic Foreign Policy: Exercising Sovereignty and Promoting Canada’s Northern Strategy Abroad" on their website, or download the docu...

Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia invites you to participate in the work of the International conference on the agro-industrial complex problems conducted by correspondence.

The University of the Arctic is organizing an information meeting at the Hotel Arctic (http://www.hotelarctic.com/) in Ilulissat, Greenland on Oct 1, 2010, 0900-1200, in advance of the Arctic Council SDWG meeting (Oct 2-3, 2010). Local participants and SDWG representatives are invited and encouraged to attend to learn more...

St. Petersburg on 4-5 October 2010 http://ifea.spbu.ru/ihe

The University of the Arctic's Annual Report 2009 is now available online, which provides an overview of major activities and milestones for the organization in the previous calendar year.

Due to technical problems with the abstract submission system we have extended the deadline for submitting abstracts to Tuesday 10 August. Abstracts can be submitted online at http://nordicadaptation2010.net/

PolarTREC (Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating) is currently accepting applications from researchers for the fifth year of teacher research experiences. Researchers are invited to submit an application to host a PolarTREC teacher during the 2011 arctic and/or the 2011/2012 Antarctic field seasons. More inform...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites investigators at U.S.organizations to submit proposals to conduct research about the Arctic.Arctic research includes field and modeling studies, data analysis, andsynthesis about the arctic region.

November 25-26, 2010 Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia

3-6 November 2010 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Early registration and abstract submission deadline: Friday, 10 September 2010 For further information, please go to: http://www.eas.ualberta.ca/ipy/index.html

Dozens of university leaders and students from around the Arctic will gather at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Aug. 12-15 for the fourth University of the Arctic Rectors’ Forum.

November 8-10, 2010Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, GermanyAn international workshop to initiate the circumpolar integration of permafrost microbiological studies will take place in Potsdam (Germany) from November 8-10 2010. MicroPerm aims at establishing a research network bringing together e...

ICASS, the International Congress of the Arctic Social Sciences, is held every three years. The seventh congress will be held in Akureyri, Iceland, on June 22-26, 2011. The working title for ICASS VII is Circumpolar Perspectives in Global Dialogue: Social Sciences Beyond the IPY.

The Thematic Network of Social Work has released its July 2010 Newsletter, documenting the group's activities over the past several months. The Newsletter identifies many highlights of the Network, including the introduction of new courses and plans for an upcoming conference. Please view the newsletter here.