Members of UArctic's leadership and administration met for joint Ma-Mawi and staff meeting in Pyhä, in Finnish Lapland, Dec 4-9, 2022.

Thematic Network on Northern and Arctic Island Studies Research has held three enthusiastic online meetings so far, on December 20, 2021, August 30 and October 6, 2022. Another will be held before Christmas. Membership keeps growing with new members being suggested at each gathering.

FORSA – an organization for research on social work in the Nordic countries, together with the Nordic Association of Schools of Social Work (NASSW) have their common conference in Bodø in Norway, 14th to 16th of June 2023. The conference of course gather researchers from the Nordic countries. But researchers from all of Europ...

The third international and interdisciplinary summer school Living in the Landscape (LiLa) took place in spring 2022. The series of summer schools is organized by University of Lapland and the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Art and Design (ASAD).

During May 2022, Edda Óskarsdóttir (Associate Professor, University of Iceland) and Hermína Gunnþórsdóttir (Associate Professor, University of Akureyri) traveled to Scotland to visit Liz Curtis and Kirsten Darling-McQuistan, Teacher Educators at the University of Aberdeen, to discuss how inclusive education is understood and...

The environmental council of the University of Akureyri announces the date for the 3rd sustainability conference at the University of Akureyri on 31.03.23, and call for abstracts.

The book "Education, Equity and Inclusion - Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable North" launch event was celebrated on Monday 21st November 2022 at the University of Lapland and on Friday 25th November 2022 at Finnish Educational Research Association Conference in Oulu, Finland.

The Læra Institute is delighted to have taken part in the first in-person workshop of the University of Washington's (UW's) "Co-designing Civic Education for the Circumpolar North" project, which took place in Rovaniemi and Ánar/Inari, Finland, from 10th to 14th October.

This hybrid workshop is part of NordForsk funded NOS-HS explorative workshop series focusing on Intersectional Gender Equality in Academia in the Arctic North. The workshop will take place 30 November 2022 in Oulu, Finland and online.

The Arctic Academy for Sustainability 2023, organised by the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Resources and Social Responsibility, is being hosted by the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in May 2023.

The newly released Arctic Yearbook 2022 explores the theme “The Russian Arctic: Economics, Politics & Peoples.”

From October 30 to November 5, 2022 members of the UArctic Thematic Network on Northern Tourism met in Pyhä, Finland for a field course and research meeting.

In the "Saving Antarctica’s Ice" video discussion, John Moore, the lead of the UArctic Thematic Network on Frozen Arctic Conservation explains to climatologists Peter Wadhams and Paul Beckwith his proposal to set up underwater curtains anchored to the sea bed in deep channels that funnel warm water under the Thwaites Ice Shel...

This position is based at Université Laval in Québec City. It is a two-year contract, with possibility of renewal, and open to nationals of Arctic states. The Executive Secretary of the SDWG Secretariat is responsible, together with its team, for addressing the administrative and logistical needs of SDWG and its Chair.

Professor Welker and a team of UOulu colleagues from the Ecology and Genetics Research Unit (Professor Anna-Maria Pirttilä and Drs. Kaisa-Riikka Mustonen, Jussi Jyväsjärvi, and Danny Croghan) and from the Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering (WE3) Research Unit (Assistant Professor Hannu Marttila and Associate Professo...