UArctic President Lars Kullerud joined the staff of the International Secretariat for an annual staff retreat at Keropirtti in Pyhä, Finland. Vice-President Outi Snellman, Information Manager Scott Forrest, ULapland International Office Financial Secretary Jenni Sjöman, Communications Assistant Stina Roos, as well as incoming...

University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) Arctic Engineering graduate student Ben Still is the recipient of the URS Arctic Engineering Graduate Fellowship for the 2010-11 and the 2011-2012 academic years. The total of $50,000 fellowship enables Ben to undertake research in arctic engineering, work closely with faculty, gain...

Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission visited Rovaniemi and the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland on Tuesday 6th March. She travelled together with Erkki Tuomioja, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Get insights into the role of the ocean in the climate system and understand the complex connections and interactions within the Earth system by means of examples of the marine realm.

Is green growth a new buzzword for the rich or can it actually improve the lives of the global poor?

On 20-21 February 2012 the University of Tromsø hosted a task group meeting under Kolarctic ENPI project “Coastal Environment, Technologies and Innovation in the Arctic (CETIA)”. International coordinators and lecturers from NArFU, University of Tromsø, Murmansk State Humanities University and Murmansk State Technical U...

50 staff members from NArFU participate in the educational program developed in cooperation with SKOLKOVO. Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO is a project of Russian and international business representatives, who joined their efforts to create a business school of new generation.

”Our Barents – Our Future. A New Agenda for Barents Cooperation.” Youth Workshop within the framework of the Barents Reunion 2012 Tornio, 13-14 June 2012

We are pleased to invite the exchange students of the University of Lapland to participate in the 14th International Summer School in Social Work in the Social Sciences 2012 – "Social Work from a Global Perspective" from May 21st to June 6th, 2012 at the University of Lapland.

The first international Arctic Circles - Art & Design Summer School is an exploration to user centered art and design  practices in the light of the Lapland's Midnight Sun!

The International Centre for Northern Governance and Development is pleased to provide you with the February 2012 edition (Vol. 2, Issue 2) of ICNGD News. Please see attached in PDF format.

Stina Roos has joined the UArctic International Secretariat on a six month internship in the role of Communications Assistant. Stina will be working with communications, bringing out multimedia and photographic elements.

In the autumn 2011 NArFU in cooperation with the government of Nenets Autonomous Okrug and public organization took the initiative to nominate the last day of February for the Arctic’s Day or the Day of Frost. On the press-conference which was held in Moscow, news agency RIA Novosti, NArFU’s rector Elena Kudrashova stresse...

A delegation from Buryat State University is meeting this week at the University of Lapland to discuss areas of cooperation including tourism studies benchmarking and the University of the Arctic. The delegation includes Liubov Radnaeva, the Council of UArctic Secretary.

Lars Kullerud, UArctic President, and Svein Tvedt Johansen, coordinator of the UArctic Thematic Network on Managing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the North, met with the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprises (NHO) on February 23rd to inform and discuss NHO’s role in developing an enterprise placement program w...