New Interreg project: ArcticSewlutions

Tue, Jul 15, 2025

Read below Pernille Erland Jensen's (Technical University of Denmark; Lead of Arctic WASH Thematic Network) commentary on the beginnings of the ArcticSewlutions project, 

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Master’s Theses on WASH in Greenlandic Settlement Housing

Tue, Jul 15, 2025

Two master’s students have completed theses that focus on hygiene in Greenlandic settlements. Agata, an environmental engineering student at DTU, and Chloe, a sustainable architecture student at Tampere University, were part of the student cohort in the Arctic WASH Summer School organized by the Arctic WASH Thematic Network i...

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Open Ship & Workshop: 30th & 31st July, 2025

Mon, Jul 14, 2025

On July 31st, in collaboration with APECS and UiB Arctic Frontiers will be hosting the Bridging Indigenous Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge workshop in Nuuk. The workshop is open and free for university students to join.

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Read now: Poop and wet wipes that don’t dissolve engaged children in Svalbard

Mon, Jul 14, 2025

Read below about an awareness campaign for children in Svalbard, written by Ida Beathe Øverjordet, Senior researcher and Lis Bach, Senior Researcher (Aarhus University).

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Reminder: UArctic Congress 2026: Submit a Session Proposal by July 31

Mon, Jul 14, 2025

Submit a session proposal for the UArctic Congress 2026! The deadline has been extended to 31 July 2025. The proposal submission form is available online.

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Save the Date: Nordic Seminar on emergency preparedness and reconstruction

Fri, Jul 11, 2025

Welcome to the seminar: "Past Experiences – Future Challenges",  Nordic seminar on preparedness and social reconstruction in Hammerfest, 27–28 October 2025.

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Erasmus+ BIP: Knowledge from the Arctic in past and present

Fri, Jul 11, 2025

Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research – Monaco-UVSQ (MIARC) has organised an Erasmus+ BIP (Blended Intensive Programme): Knowledge from the Arctic in past and present - collecting and (co)-constructing cultural continuity and change in Versailles, Paris, June 23-27, 2025.

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UArctic x LRF Fellows: Understanding technology, risk, and seamanship in the maritime Arctic

Thu, Jul 10, 2025

In this blog post published by Lloyd's Register Foundation, UArctic x LRF Fellow Daniel Oliver Paulsen explores the changing nature of ‘seamanship’ and what it means for safety.

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Abstract Call: HC003 - Arctic Maritime Safety, Climate Impacts, and Human–Environment Interactions (OSM 2026, Glasgow)

Thu, Jul 10, 2025

UArctic x Lloyd's Register Foundation Research Fellows are accepting abstracts to their joint session at the Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) 2026. Submit an abstract by Wednesday, 20 August 2025.

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Reminder: Open Position: Director of the Stefansson Arctic Institute, University of Akureyri

Thu, Jul 10, 2025

The University of Akureyri invites applications for an ambitious and visionary leader to serve as Director of the Stefansson Arctic Institute (SAI) for a five-year term with possibilities for renewal. Application Deadline: August 15, 2025.

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New book: L'autochtonie comparée des Amériques. Droit et représentations culturelles

Thu, Jul 10, 2025

Jan Borm together with Daniel Chartier, Martina Lourdes Rojo and Leila Devia published a collective volume with multidisciplinary comparative articles on indigeneity in the Americas focusing especially on law and cultural representations.

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Seminar report: Asia and the Arctic: Encounters and Entanglements

Thu, Jul 10, 2025

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic in Asia and Asia in the Arctic, the Hokkaido University Arctic Research Center, the Arctic Challenge for Sustainability (ArCS) III – Arctic Governance Research Group, and the Asia Arctic Network for Research and Education, co-organized a hybrid seminar titled “Asia and the Arctic: Encoun...

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North2north – Narrative Report – Charlotte Brandstrup Ottendahl

Wed, Jul 09, 2025

Below is a north2north report from Charlotte Brandstrup Ottendahl, who traveled to Greenland to conduct fieldwork.

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Article: Why history matters to planning: Climate change, colonialism & maladaptation

Tue, Jul 08, 2025

Recently, Sarah Kehler and S. Jeff Birchall from the University of Alberta (Canada), and the Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience, published ‘Why history matters to planning: Climate change, colonialism & maladaptation’, with the journal Environmental Science and Policy.

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Researcher north2north story: Christine Ingemann

Tue, Jul 08, 2025

The following is a north2north testimonial from Christine Ingemann, a researcher from the University of Southern Denmark who traveled to Ilisimatusarfik - The University of Greenland in April 2025.

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