Brian Rogers, chancellor emeritus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, was today re-appointed as chair of UArctic's Board during their meetings in Rovaniemi, Finland. Rogers began as his first term as a Board member in 2009, and became chair during his second term in 2012. He will conclude his final term as chair in 2018.

In November 2015, the official website of the Union of Reindeer Herders (Nenets Autonomous District (NAD), Russia) was launched and is going to become a informational basis for reindeer husbandry in the District.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law has established a new sub-group: Philosophy of Law in the Arctic. The sub-group brings together Arctic philosophers of law and scholars interested in legal philosophy in the Arctic. The sub-group is led by Dr. Dawid Bunikowski, University of Eastern Finland.

The Board of Governors of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) convene for their biannual meeting in conjunction with the “In the Spirit of the Rovaniemi Process” on November 23-26, 2015 in Rovaniemi, Finland.

With the Fulbright Specialist Program, Finnish institutions have the opportunity to invite a Specialist from the United States for a project visit of 2-6 weeks. The second application round for the academic year 2015-2016 ends on December 2, 2015.

International Symposium on Emerging Arctic Legal Orders in Science,Environment and the Ocean will be organised 18-19 December 2015, at Kobe University, Japan. Pre-registration is open until 7 December 2015.

GRID-Arendal, a UArctic member is working on the COP21 exhibition “Mountains: early warning systems for climate change”.

The conference is organized by the High North Center at Business School, University of Nordland, 12th JAN 2016, Bodø Norway.

Higher School of Economics presents the fourth issue of the quarterly informational newsletter “Higher Education in Russia and Beyond” (HERB), a bulletin that is aimed at bringing current Russian, Central Asian and Eastern European educational trends to the attention of the international higher education research community....

Young Explorers Grants (YEG) offers opportunities to individuals ages 18 to 25 to pursue research, conservation, and exploration-related projects consistent with National Geographic's existing grant programs.

The Guidelines for establishing a new UArctic Thematic Network has been updated. The next deadline for submitting proposal is 1st of May 2016 for the Council meeting to be held in September in conjunction with the UArctic Congress 2016.

The Arctic Cooperation Programme of the Nordic Council of Ministers has opened up its call for project applications for financial support in 2016 to new project proposals as well as for the continuation of existing projects. The deadline for applications is January 18th 2016.

NordForsk launches a new two-phase call for proposals for Nordic Centres of Excellence within the Nordic Bioeconomy Programme. The programme aims to fund three Nordic Centres of Excellence within a budget of NOK 90 million. Application deadline for the first phase is 16 March 2016.

President of the Republic of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who is on an inaugural State Visit to Singapore, delivered the opening address at the Arctic Circle Singapore Forum alongside Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean.

Inuit Studies Conference 2016 to be held in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador on October 7-10, 2016.