The international scientific conference "History of Arctic Exploration and Development: from past to future" has been held at NArFU on 12-13th September. During the conference, the Northern (Arctic) Federal University became an international platform for the discussion of issues related to Arctic exploration.

A packed agenda for next month’s Arctic Futures Symposium will see key Arctic stakeholders debate the region’s energy and marine resources, maritime safety and scientific research. The symposium, which takes place in Brussels on October 4thand 5th, welcomes high-level speakers such as HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, Maria Da...

Arctic Centre researcher Emilie Beaudon’s doctoral research closes a geographical gap in the current knowledge of the European Arctic climate variability by investigating the chemistry of the snow and new ice cores extracted from Svalbard ice caps. This work provides new essential keys for future ice core based environmental...

This is a reminder that the Early Bird deadline to purchase tickets for the Nov. 7-8 workshop, Improving Food Security in the North: A Workshop on Sustainable Northern Greenhouses, is this Saturday, Sept. 15th. Purchase your ticket on or before this date and you’ll pay half the regular price!

The INTERACT project under EU FP7 has a Transnational Access program that offers access to 20 research stations in northernmost Europe and Russian Federation. The sites represent a variety of glacier, mountain, tundra, boreal forest, peatland and freshwater ecosystems, providing opportunities for researchers from natural sci...

UArctic's Thematic Network on Distance Education and e-Learning is organizing a open seminar, "Practice of using ICT in educational process at school and in higher institution", November 28, 2012 at Murmansk State Humanities University. See the invitation for full details.

An international group of researchers, lead by the North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU), found unique materials for mammoth study. The results of the Yana-2012 international paleontological expedition may draw attention of the world's scientific community. It was discussed at the meeting with the rector of NEFU on Se...

The Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs has made an agreement with the Office of International Education (OIE) in Iceland regarding the administration of the Arctic Science Cooperation Fund and Exchange scholarships for Icelandic and Norwegian Students in Arctic Studies. Exchange scholarships for Icelandic and Norwegian St...

The 10th Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region was held in Akureyri, Iceland from September 5-7, 2012. In their conference declaration, the parliamentarians once again reaffirmed their support of the University of the Arctic, asking their governments to "Continue to strength[en] cooperation between the Universit...

The International Centre for Northern Governance and Development (ICNGD) is pleased to provide you with the Summer 2012 edition (Vol. 2, Issue 5) of ICNGD News. Please see attached in PDF format.

Thule institute is organizing “5th Joint Northern Environmental Research Symposium” on September 10-14, 2012, together with the University of Hokkaido, the Finnish Institute in Japan and the University of Lapland. The symposium will be held partly at the University of Oulu, in Environmental Sciences Building (Lecture hall IT1...

On September 6-8 the Fifth Polar Law Symposium will be held at one of the birthplaces of Arctic cooperation - Rovaniemi. The meeting will be hosted by the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre and the University of Lapland. The keynote speakers include Charles Emmerson (Chatham House) and Donald...

Jan Henry Keskitalo, UArctic's Vice-President Indigenous, today delivered an opening address for the University of Lapland's new academic year. In his speech, Keskitalo focussed on the importance indigenous perspectives in higher education. He noted that the network of the University of the Arctic can be an important resource...

Beate Hummel is from Germany. She has studied sociology and psychology and been working as a psychologist, first, in different hospitals, and now on her own practice, that gives her a lot of time to travel, she says. And for the last ten years she has been traveling a lot. Firstly she was very busy taking courses for her prof...

The course will cover different levels of securities with respect to health and well-being of individuals and communities in the circumpolar area. The course is funded by the NordForsk Top-level Research Initiative “Effect studies and adaptation to climate change” as the fifth course organized by the Nordic Network “Peo...