The Amur region government held the Association of Indigenous peoples of the North’s meeting on December 18, 2015.

Krasnoyarsk scientists from Siberian Federal University presented antenna arrays that will provide remote Russian areas in the North with the Internet.

North-Eastern Federal University invites you to the International Student Scientific Conference «Lebedev’s Readings» to be held on 25 of February 2016 in Yakutsk, Russia.

Ukhta State Technical University is delighted to invite you, your colleagues, and your employees to our annual International Seminar Rassokhin Readings which is to take place on 4-5 February 2016 at Ukhta State Technical University (USTU).

The public symposium gathers together Arctic scientists, students, policymakers, industry and NGO representatives and other key stakeholders as well as the general public.

UArctic wishes you all Season's Greetings! The International Secretariat will be closed until January 7.

The Arctic Yearbook is calling for abstracts for the 2016 edition. Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2016.

Save the date: 2016 Polar Libraries Colloquy (PLC) in Fairbanks, Alaska at the University of Alaska Fairbanks July 10-15, 2016

If you are a student a participating UArctic institution, you can apply for a north2north student exchange at another member institution. The application deadline for the next calendar year is Feb 15, 2015. Apply today!

The UArctic Thematic Networks & Research Liaison staff wishes all a very happy holiday season, and all the best for the New Year! During the festive season, our office will be working on a limited capacity.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Excellent Science will soon be inviting proposals for its H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016 Marie Sklodowska-Curie research and innovation staff exchange call. The closing date is 28 April 2016.

Staff and Faculty north2north exchange funding available from and to Danish, Greenlandic and Faroese to other north2north members of UArctic. Apply by February 15,2016.  

Nordforsk, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) invite proposals for their collaborative research projects on society, integrity and cyber-security. The deadline is 15 March 2016.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law was represented in the Third Arctic Legal Forum, held in St. Petersburg, 25.-27.11.2015. The focus of this year’s forum was “the human dimension in the Arctic”.

The 5th International Forum The Arctic: Present and Future has been held on December 7-9 in Saint-Petersburg. The forum was held under the leadership of Interregional Public Organization Association of Polar Explorers President, the Russian Federation President’s Special Representative for international cooperation in the Arc...