• Build an accessible inventory of Arctic research capacity and infrastructure of member institutions to help promote them;
  • Initiate an annual gathering of member institutions’ research leadership;
  • Work with IASC, IASSA towards a successful International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP III) to produce a comprehensive overview of Arctic research needs. UArctic will in particular focus on the Research needs of northern communities;  
  • Work with IASC, IASSA to build a community of Arctic research funders;
  • Help identify funding opportunities for member cooperation with priority on Thematic Networks and Institutes;
  • Disseminate and promote the use of research results through collective efforts, including Snowy Owl talks, learning objects, publications of member institutions and thematic networks & Institutes, , promotes the use of open access publications, and new creative ways to communicate research; and
  • UArctic will create tools for institutions in the non-Arctic world to partner with northern institutions.