Professor Hans Bernstein from UiT, The Arctic University of Norway has been appointed as UArctic Chair in Biotechnology for Arctic Greenhouse Gas Management for the next five years

The University of Tasmania is launching a new Climate Change MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) in the coming months and we would love your insights!



Taking place in June in Cambridge, UK, the conference explores the most promising research into protecting the Arctic from rapid warming with experts on science, technology, and ethical pathways. Abstracts can still be submitted until February 28.




The Mohn Prize is awarded for excellence in research related to the Arctic. Deadline for nominating your candidate for The Mohn Prize 2026 is July 31st 2025.

The World Climate Research Program’s Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) announces the CliC Open Science Conference, taking place 9-12 February 2026, in Wellington, New Zealand. The conference theme is The Changing Cryosphere: Science, Impacts, and Adaptation.

The year 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of International Mother Language Day, first proclaimed by UNESCO and later adopted by the UN General Assembly. Celebrated annually on February 21, this anniversary highlights a quarter-century of dedicated efforts to preserve linguistic diversity and promote the use of mother tongues.

The Magna Charta Observarory has made the following plea to UArctic, encouraging all UArctic members to become signatories of the Magna Charta Universitatum 2020, a declaration of the core values that define universities worldwide - academic freedom, institutional uutonomy, research, internationalisation, equality and serving...