The History Department of the University of Oulu will organize interdisciplinary symposium “The Barents and the Baltic Sea region: contacts, influences and social change” in Oulu in December 2015.  The aim of the symposium is to analyse the characteristics of the Barents and Baltic Sea region from interdisciplinary perspectives.

The 16th International Congress on Circumpolar Health – Focus on Future health and well-being will be held June 8-12, 2015 in Oulu, Finland. It will gather 350 participants mainly from the Nordic and other European countries, Russia, Canada and USA.

The 2015 edition of UArctic's annual magazine Shared Voices has been released and is now available for download. This year's theme focuses on our Russian members and partners, interregional cooperation, and higher education and science in the North from a Russian perspective.

The 1st Central European Polar Meeting will be held 10-13 November 2015 in Vienna, bringing together polar researchers including distinguished scientists and the next generation of polar researchers from Central European countries and around the globe.

The EU's Interreg North 2014-2020 Programme is now open for applications from northern parts of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Sami areas. The call is open until 30th of August 2015.

The joint IMO/WMU/PAME international conference on Safe and Sustainable Shipping in a Changing Arctic Environment (ShipArc 2015) will be held 25-27 August 2015 in Malmö, Sweden. The conference registration is still ongoing, and the deadline for abstracts submission has been extended to 30 June 2015.

The “In the Spirit of the Rovaniemi Process – Local and Global Arctic” will take place in Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland, on 24-26 November 2015. The second international conference is organized by the City of Rovaniemi, the University of Lapland and its Arctic Centre and the Arctic Society of Finland.

The submission of artworks and/or abstracts for the art exhibition and symposium RELATE NORTH 2015 is open until June 15, 2015. The symposium and exhibition is a collaboration between the University of the Arctic, ASAD Thematic Network, the University of Alaska Anchorage, the University of Lapland and the Kimura Gallery.

The Artek Event 2016 - International Conference: Sanitation in Cold Climate Regions will be held in Sisimiut/Greenland in April 12-14, 2016. For registration and more information, please visit the conference website.

19-20 June 2015 the European University in St. Petersburg and the St. Petersburg Institute of History Russian Academy of Sciences organize an international conference participated by well-known scientists from Russia, the USA, UK, Germany and Finland. The conference continues the cycle on the reforms’ history in Russia.

The Institute of Economics of Karelian Research Centre of RAS with the Government of the Republic of Karelia organize the 7th Youth Economic Forum “New Economy – New Opportunities” in Petrozavodsk (Russia) in November 12-13, 2015.

Tyumen State Oil and Gas University jointly with Institute of Earth Cryosphere of Russian Academy of Science (Siberian Department of Russian Academy of Science) organize field course on the Chara river (Zabaykalsky krai) 

The Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU) is pleased to invite Nordic institutions for higher education to apply for project funding under the Nordic-Russian Programme for Cooperation in Education and Research. Deadline for this call is 23 September 2015.

The 10th Arctic Frontiers conference, titled Industry and Environment, will be arranged in Tromsø, Norway on 24-29 January 2016. The organizers invite abstracts for presentations to any of the three parts: environmental footprints, Arctic stewardship, and technology needs. Call for papers closes on 21 September 2015.

The annual travelling symposium Calotte Academy will this year begin its tour with a session held in Rovaniemi on the 1st of June 2015. This year’s conference is taking an explicit focus on issues related to security and resource (geo)politics in the globalized Arctic.