On October 10, 2011, the grand opening of the interdisciplinary seminar “Cold Regions” will take place at the Board of Academics' convention hall, North- Eastern Federal University. Sylvia Reed Curran, Consul General of the USA in Vladivostok, Rodger William Pearson, Professor Emeritus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, S...

During the recent 18th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, RAIPON First Vice-President Pavel Sulyandziga was elected to the Working Group on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises.Source: UN Human Rights Council

One year after the launch of the International Polar Year (IPY) Education, Outreach and Communication (EOC) Assessment Project the task of inventorying and investigating the hundreds of IPY EOC programmes that occurred during the IPY 2007-08 is now complete.

UArctic's Thematic Network on Social Work, coordinated by the University of Nordland, is engaging in collaboration with the SW-VirCamp project. The SW-VirCamp project was funded by the EACEA-LLP programme for 2 years and is since 2010 a Consortium of 7 Higher Education Institutions in Europe.

Places are still available for the Gargia Conference 2011 on Sport, Tourism and Place Development, Oct 20-21, 2011 in Finnmark, Norway. The conference is based mainly on reaserch and development work the UArctic Thematic Network on Local and Regional Development in the North in the municipality of North Cape, Northern Norway...

Recent developments in the Arctic have yielded a vast number of alarming statements in the media all around the world. With increasing interest of non-Arctic states in the Arctic, also in the German media alarmist tendencies can be found – both in newspaper articles and books. However, journalist and author Matthias Ha...

October 11-13, 2011. The Conference Board of Canada presents this event, to bring together Canadian and international thought leaders, decision-makers and influencers immersed in Northern issues. Together they will discuss five major challenges facing the North today: governance, resource development, community security, infr...

Triple I will arrange one day seminars in Ekaterinburg on 10 October 2011 and in Novosibirsk on 12 October 2011 to promote the Russian educational institutes' opportunities for international cooperation. The seminars are open to all representatives of Russian higher education institutions.

The regional coordination office for the Circumpolar Studies (BCS) program at the University of Nordlands (UiN), in Bodo, Norway is organizing its annual partner meeting at NArFu in Arkhangelsk, Russia, on Oct 4-5, 2011. UArctic institutions in northwest Russia are participating in the meeting, including members from Murmansk...

Edited by Karen Langgård and Kirsten Thisted,  with chapters on Sami, Faroese, Greenlandic, Canadian Inuit, native Alaskan and indigenous Siberian literature, this anthology provides a first attempt to draw the literary landscape of the Polar North.

The Department of Biology and Wildlife and the Institute of Arctic Biology (IAB) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) seek applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Ecology open at the Assistant or Associate level. Specifically, UAF seeks an ecologist studying mechanisms of change in ecological systems or soc...

Finnmark University College and the Barents Institute are hosting a research seminar on peoples and cultures in the High North with a special focus on the Barents region.

UArctic Vice-President Administration, Outi Snellman, and Vice Chair of UArctic Research, Oyvind Paasche are representing UArtic in a two day symposium in Siena (Italy), in the context of the ICSU General Assembly 2011 and the ICSU Earth System visioning process.

On 21.09.2011 MSHU received an official delegation from the University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland) represented by Mauri Ylä-Kotola, rector, and Outi Snellman, head of International Office, who is simultaneously taking the position of the vice-president of the University of the Arctic, which is a network of universities, c...

From the 21st to the 24th of September, Arkhangelsk plays host to the Second International Arctic Forum “The Arctic – Territory of Dialogue” organized by the Russian Geographical Society (RGS).