The INTERACT project under EU-FP7 has a Transnational Access program that offers access to research stations in the northernmost Europe and Russian Federation. The current TA call is open to Boreal Stations within the INTERACT network, including six stations in Norway, Finland, Russian Federation and Faroe Islands. The sites...

ACI is pleased to announce the after conference workshop, taking place on 14th of March 2013 in Montreal, Canada and focusing on Arctic present special problems with respect to search and rescue, marine response, salvage and pollution countermeasures in harsh environment as well as poor communications and lack of capability...

Arctic Environment Ministers and high level representatives met in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, 5-6 February, for a meeting focused on actions to address the rapid environmental changes in the Arctic and how to improve the protection of the Arctic environment through actions at the national, regional and global level, including throu...

                                                                              The Norwegian-Russian conference "Innovation in Education, Research and Business: Norwegian and Russian perspectives" takes place at University of Nordland, Bodø, Norway on Monday 18th of March and Tuesday 19th of March.

Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland is seeking for a Senior Impact Assessment Expert in Rovaniemi, Finland to work for the Preparatory Action: “Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment of development of the Arctic” project funded by the European Commission.

The European Commission has selected a consortium led by the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland) to carry out a one million euro project to produce a “Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment of development of the Arctic”. The project will last eighteen months during 2013–2014.

The University of the Arctic is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Patrick T. Maher, from the University of Northern British Columbia (Canada) as its Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the North American region.

Visualizing your science – Science and photography workshop at the Kilpisjärvi biological station 19.3.-22.3.2013The course is administrated by the Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, University of Tromsø.

UArctic's Arctic Law Thematic Network has published its first newsletter (Feb 2013), presenting background and activity updates on the network and its members.

“Advancing Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in the Circumpolar North”, September 29 – Oct. 3, 2013, Girdwood, Alaska, U.S.A. First joint conference between the Circumpolar Agriculture Association and the Northern Food Security Thematic Network, Call for abstracts now available! http://www.uaf.edu/cac/

The Faculty of Law, University of Tromsø is happy to announce a PhD position on Law on Arctic Shipping. More information on the position may be found at http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=89653.

The annual program team meeting of the leads of UArctic's Thematic Networks takes place Jan 29-31, 2013 in Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation at the Northern (Arctic) Federal University. The meeting is an opportunity for the Thematic Networks to plan their activities, learn from each other's work, and engage in cooperative proje...

North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia is organizing the interdisciplinary summer field school, 'Cold Lands' June 20-July 11, 2013. Registration deadline is March 30, 2013.

The last three years have been both challenging and enjoyable for Nazar Petrov, postgraduate Emergency Medicine student at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk. He took his first Circumpolar Studies courses several years ago, and he continues with the rest of them this study year. After working experience in remote...