Rovaniemi is home to more than 300 creative industry companies and the University of Lapland’s Arctic Centre and Faculty of Art and Design. Next year the city of Rovaniemi participates in World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 by bringing into the event an arctic perspective! Through events and activities of joint projects and...

Strengthening the North Conference team and ThinkBarents have a pleasure to invite you to our The Strenghtening the North Conference – “Let’s stay here!” The Conference is held in Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences 7th of December 2011 at 9am. – 3.3pm. Conference is in English and is free of charge.

The “Summer in Siberia” Russian language and Culture course is a wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself in the multicultural society of Yakutia in North East Siberia. Witness the historic social and economic changes occurring in Russia as you develop language skills in a Russian speaking environment.

The Executive of the Board of the University of the Arctic’s new Research Office held their first meeting last week in Oslo. Known as Mimir, the Board assist the Research Office in its work to build research capacity in Northern post-secondary institutions and to link researchers in these institutions with new research...

The college is having a success in its cooperation on the international bachelor program; Bachelor of Northern Studies. By a recent visit to its partner institutions an increasing interest for the program was documented.

The recent decision by the Government of Canada to dramatically cut funding to the University of the Arctic will have a impact on not only the ability of Canadian students to participate in UArctic programs, but also thousands of other students around the circumpolar world who benefited from them. UArctic has already ta...

The Chair of SCPAR Mr. Morten Høglund has written a letter to Canadian authorities in support of continued strong Canadian funding of the University of the Arctic.

November 20-25, Kazan will host International Scientific Seminar “Russian-German Collaboration in the field of Ecology of Arctic ecosystems: Results and Perspectives”.

Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2012 will be held 19-22 April, 2012, in conjunction with the International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 Conference (22-27 April, 2012). For more information, see: http://www.assw2012.org

The Call for Abstracts for the IPY 2012 From Knowledge to Action Conference is closed and over 2100 abstracts were received from 46 countries. Featuring the latest research results from both the Arctic and Antarctic, the conference will provide an opportunity to network with polar experts and consider ways to translate...

The new study, "Mapping mobility in European higher education" has now been published electronically by the European Commission, for whom it was produced. It was written by ACA and INCHER (University of Kassel), in cooperation with ACA members DAAD and CampusFrance, as well as HIS (Hannover). Mapping mobility is a sequel to A...

12 October, 2011, the Institute of the Northern Peoples of the Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University hosted the International  Workshop Conference “Reality of Ethnos: Northern Dimension”. The conference was organized in collaboration with Research Institute of Arctic and Sustainable Development of Indigenous People w...

UArctic's Thematic Network on Distance Education and e-Learning is organizing a workshop from Nov 21-25, 2011 at the University of Tromsø, Norway: "Students’ scientific cooperation between Murmansk State Humanities University and the University of Tromsø." See program. For more information contact steinar.thorvaldsen@uit.no o...

Close to 100 attendees representing government, industry, community leaders, academia, and NGOs took part in the first ever Greenlandic oil and gas key stakeholder dialogue designed to discuss and address key issues regarding oil and gas development in Greenland. UArctic's Thematic Network 'Energy in New Time' was involv...