UArctic's north2north national agencies and institution representatives gathered in Stockholm Oct 14-15, 2015 for an meeting to discuss common issues of student exchange, and further develop the north2north mobility program. The north2north program provides exchange opportunites for students at participating UArctic members.

The KMI International Journal of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries is an international journal published biannually in June and December.

The Northern Arctic Federal University invites students and young people from European universities, colleges and municipalities to participate in the III International Belomorskiy Students Forum.  

The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nordland (UiN) is offering a new English master degree program in Social Science. The application deadline is February 1st 2016 for Non-EU citizens, April 1st 2016 for EU citizens and May 15th 2016 for Norwegian citizens.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges will shortly be inviting proposals, under the Europe in a changing world work programme, for its H2020-REV-INEQUAL-2016 reversing inequalities and promoting fairness call. The call will open on 27 October, and close on 4 February 2016.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges is now inviting proposals, under the Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials work programme for its H2020-SC5-2016-2017 Greening the Economy Call. The first deadline for this call is 8 March 2016.

European Research Council (ERC) has opened its call for Consolidator Grants 2016. The call will close on 2 February 2016.

46 authors from various countries took part in publication of a collective monograph «Ethno-cultural education in the Far-Eastern federal district of the Russian Federation». The book was presented within the XIII Congress of Teachers on September 7 in Yakutsk.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges is now inviting proposals, under the secure, clean and efficient energy work programme, for its H2020-EE-2016-2017 Energy Efficiency Call, topic: Socio-economic research on consumer's behaviour related to energy efficiency. The closing date is 21 January 2016.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges is now inviting proposals, under the secure, clean and efficient energy work programme, for its H2020-SCC-2016 smart and sustainable cities call. The call will be opened 10 November 2015, the closing date is 8 March 2016.

On 23-24 September, 2015, the United States hosted the first meeting of the Arctic Council’s Task Force on Telecommunications Infrastructure in the Arctic (TFTIA) in Chicago.

The EU Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges will shortly be inviting proposals for its H2020-RUR-2016 call for a rural renaissance – fostering innovation and business opportunities. The call deadline is 14 February 2017.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Excellent Science is now inviting proposals for its H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2016 European researchers’ night call. The closing date is 13 January 2016.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Excellent Science is inviting proposals for its H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016 Marie Sklodowska-Curie innovative training networks call. The closing date for this call is 12 January 2016.

The new Horizon2020 Work Programme 2016-2017 has now been launched by the European Comission. Also the first calls for proposals have been published at the EU Participant Portal.