This summer school, organised by Harbin Institute of Technology invites undergraduate students of all academic backgrounds from Chinese universities and from the eight circum-Arctic countries who have shown and can document profound professional interests in the Arctic and intend to achieve further relevant scientific knowled...

Pskov State University invites abstracts for a large-scale international research and practice conference "Northern Europe, Pskov and the Hanseatic League: past and present", which is to take place on May 21 - 23, 2019 in Pskov, Russia. The conference is supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian...

Tampere University, Finland, would like to welcome UArctic universities to take part in an International Staff Week on 10 - 14 June 2019. The objective of the week is to give you an opportunity to get to know your colleagues and discuss current topics in different fields and share good practices. Registration is open until Ap...

The European Commission Horizon 2020 is now inviting proposals for Future and Emerging Technologies work programme, for H2020- fetopen-2016-2017 fet-open– novel ideas for radically new technologies call. The calls are opened now, the closing dates are different for each call. 

Update: Due to the great interest, the survey will be kept open until April 30, 2019. The results and report will be published in May 2019 (instead of late March).

At the meeting just concluded in Ruka, Finland, the Senior Arctic Officials reviewed and approved many deliverables for the Ministerial meeting in Rovaniemi in May 2019 in close consultation with the Permanent Participants.

The University of Helsinki and Stockholm University have a strategic partnership since 2014 with a focus on Baltic Sea Research. To boost already existing excellent cooperation, the two universities have decided to launch a new research spearhead in Arctic research called Arctic Avenue.

Caribou and reindeer are central to the ecology, cultural and economic sustainability of the Arctic and northern regions.  As part of Professor Welker's UArctic Chairship,  Dr. Welker, students and colleagues are undertaking studies of ungulate ecology with a focus on herbivore landscape use patters, diets, vegetation traits,...

EU Horizon2020 calls under Science with and for Society. Deadline April 02, 2019.

The Nordic Network for Sámi and Indigenous Peoples Law (NORSIL) hosted by Umeå University, Sweden calls for abstract and participation in its First Workshop on “Transitioning towards a sustainable Nordic Society: Assessing and monitoring the implementation of the rights of the Indigenous Sámi people as a means to achieve incl...

University of Alberta Press has published an annotated edition of John Rae´s unfinished autobiography that completes his unparalleled life story. 

The Fulbright Specialist Program offers grants for a U.S. specialist for the period of 2 - 6 weeks to collaborate with Finnish institutions on projects such as teaching and lecturing, curriculum and faculty development, institutional planning and a variety of other activities.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: BlueBio – Blue Bioeconomy ERA-NET Cofund – Unlocking the Potential of Aquatic Bioresources. Deadline March 18, 2019.

Northern (Arctic) Federal University in Arkhangelsk, Russia, one of the UArctic member universities hosting the Arctic Science Summit Week 2019 (22 - 30 May), welcomes potential participants to a side event "Arctic Law: Current Legal Regulation, Teaching and Research" (May 26).

UArctic and Korea Maritime Institute (KMI) are pleased to announce an opportunity for 20 students from UArctic member institutions located in Arctic States to participate in the 5th Korea Arctic Academy in the Republic of Korea - a 10 day study program in July at KMI together with students from Korean universities.