International Autumn School "Study of human working capacities in the Arctic", which took place September 5-12, 2016 has been successfully completed. The school was the first collaborative project of two Thematic Networks "Health and well-being in the Arctic" and "Working in the Arctic."

Lapland University of Applied Sciences in Tornio is organizing a “Summer School on Arctic Cooperation and Cross-Border Expertise”. The Summer school will be held form 29 May to 31 August 2017 (30 ECTS study credits).  Application deadline: March 31, 2017.

The deadline for the first workshop on “The Future of Winter Tourism” (FWT2017), which will be held in Rovaniemi (Finland) on April 3-5, 2017 is quickly approaching. The workshop is organized by the University of Lapland and Multidimensional Tourism Institute (MTI).

Eleven student alumni of the first two Korea Arctic Academy cohorts presented in the policy day to open the Korean Arctic Partnership Week in Busan, invited by our member and partner, Korea Maritime Institute.

The two-day conference (January 19-20, 2017 - University of Helsinki, Finland) examines the concept of “indigenous people” as an inter-national and global phenomenon, and the unique processes through which this concept is applied to, lived and translated for each local situation.

The Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas (CAPP) of the ISCSP is organizing the IV Lisbon International Arctic Workshop and Conference on "Artic Global Sustainable Development, Challanges and Resilience - From Climate Change to Security, People and Places". The event will take place on December 5th.

From 25 to 26 November the International Conference "Gargia-Oktemtsy - 2016 “Agricultural development in the northern territories of Russia" took place for the third time on the base of the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk and Oktemtsy village.  

Students at UArctic institutions with a north2north contact, can apply for a north2north student exchange at another member institution. The application deadline for the next calendar year is Feb 15, 2017. 

November 26 – December 1 UArctic president Lars Kullerud visited Yakutsk. The President participated in the international seminar on the Arctic Council project EALLU: Reindeer youth, adaptation to climate change, and traditional food culture in the framework of the program.

Last chance to participate in the UArctic communications survey and help us develop our information sharing! The survey closes on December 6, 2016.

Here is a call for papers from the 5th IPTRN conference (held in August 2016 in NE Iceland). Although it’s linked to IPTRN5, the call is open to all submissions and full details can be found below. Deadline for submission is 30 April 2017.  

In an article for the High North News, UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law leader Timo Koivurova reflects on the recent discussion and media focus on the potential conflict in the Arctic and whether it is more speculation than reality.