The Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS) has opened a call for workshops in order to promote the development of new research areas and programmes within the humanities and social sciences in the Nordic countries. The deadline for this call is 23 February 2016.



The Calotte Academy 2016 will be organized from 30 May to 5 June, 2016 in Rovaniemi and Inari, Finland; Apatity and Murmansk, Russia; Kirkenes and Neiden, Norway. The theme of the travelling symposium 2016 will be ‘Resilience related to Sustainable Development in Globalization’. The Call for Abstracts is now open.

The key issues of the conference are aspects and prospects of Arctic and Continental shelf development, the role of Arctic region in meeting energy demand, legislative support for offshore projects development, international experience of exploration and drilling operations under challenging conditions in Arctic region with t...

The University of Northern British Columbia has published the January 2016 edition of the Northern Voice, its newsletter on northern issues and activities from its Northern Studies Program.  This edition highlights the 65th Annual Polar Day at UNBC, which takes place on January 15, 2016.

Every summer, the Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS) gathers one hundred doctoral students and young researchers of all disciplines from all around the world to tackle some of the greatest challenges of our time — this year: water. June 13-24, 2016 at the University of Bergen

The University of Alberta,  in cooperation with the UiT - The Arctic University of Norway and the University of the Arctic (UArctic) network will launch a unique Arctic Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) this week. The course will give the students an introduction to climatic issues and environmental changes in the Arctic.


The 9th Circumpolar Agricultural Conference will be held in Reykjavik Iceland 6th to 8th October 2016. The overall theme of the conference will be the role of agriculture in the circumpolar bioeconomy.