Over 130 participants from UArctic's member institutions attended the Council meeting at Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology from Sept 18-20, 2019, from 14 countries both in the Circumpolar North and from outside the region.

This year's Council meeting has a significant emphasis on the future direction of the network. Among the issues discussed are UArctic's new Strategic Plan 2020-2030 and the changing UArctic's legal status to a registered non-profit association.

The Arctic Council’s Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) Working Group launched the first bottle equipped with a GPS transmitter into the Atlantic today 12 September. Called “plastic in a bottle”, the capsule will simulate how marine litter and plastics travel far distances into and out of Arctic waters. The co...

The results for the 2019 UArctic Project Call for Networking Activities on Arctic Research and are now ready, and three projects will receive funding from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science for their two-year projects starting this autumn. UArctic wishes success to the projects and looks forward to hearing mo...

This three-day intensive course introduces theories and research methods applied in the interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities.

We’ve heard it many times: “You are what you eat.” The concept enabled college sophomore Annie Masterman to do cutting edge research connecting humpback whales to their diet.

The Calotte Academy 2019 has been postponed to 12-19 November, 2019 and is planned to be organized in the European Arctic — Inari and Hetta, Finland; Kautokeino, Norway; Apatity, Russia (tbc.).

The Arctic Frontiers Science Committees invite abstracts for Arctic Frontiers Science 2020. Arctic Frontiers 2020 will convene 26-30 January 2020, while Arctic Frontiers Science will run 28-30 January 2020, in Tromsø, Norway.  

UArctic Thematic Network on Teacher Education and UNESCO/UNITWIN Network on Teacher Education are organizing a roundtable discussion "Do you speak my language?", focusing on theme of indigenous languages, in FERA Conference on Education at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, November 21-22, 2019.

Extended deadline. To stimulate academic research and to strengthen cultural exchanges and promote academic cooperation in snow and ice architecture HIT, UArctic and the IASS Working Group 21 have organized the 2019 HIT International Ice and Snow Architecture Innovation Design and Construction Competition.

The Danish Institute for International Studies(DIIS) will host a conference on 'Truth and Reconciliation in the Arctic' on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 September 2019, in Copenhagen. A live stream will also be available.  

Northern (Arctic) Federal University in Arkhangelsk, North-West Russia, is pleased to announce the II International PhD School “Russia in the Arctic Dialogue: Local and Global Context” to be held on 13-20 June, 2020 as a side event of the X International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS Х)

A field-based training course for graduate/post-doc level snow scientists on state-of-the-art snow measurement techniques will take place at Col du Lautaret, France from February 16th through the 22nd. The focus topic for the year is "Snow in a changing climate, impact on humans and nature".

North2North staff mobility program gave the opportunity to two researchers from Aarhus University, Pau Giménez-Grau and Ada Pastor, to visit Dr. Suzanne Tank at University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada).

Call for proposals for the Arctic week 2019 in Paris. The Arctic week 2019 will take place from December 9 to 13 at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris. The event will be chaired by Ségolène Royal, ambassador for the poles.