"The Riksgränsen Declaration represents a boost to joint Nordic efforts to face up to the challenges posed by globalisation," it emerged from a press conference featuring the five prime ministers and the Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers after the Nordic ”Davos Meeting” in Riksgränsen.


The University Centre of the West Fjords is pleased to offer a master's program in Coastal and Marine Management commencing in the Fall of 2008. The Program prepares students to engage with one of the most compelling and important subjects today: natural resource management and utilization.


The Conference 'Resilience 2008: Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times' will be made available for viewers over the Web. The Conference takes place in Stockholm from April 14-17. 2008, however more than 40 live coverages of panel discussions, workshops and key presentations will be available via Web TV.




The principal objective of Cold Climate HVAC 2009 is to provide key elements of a strategy by which scientists, designers, engineers, manufactures and other decisionmakers in cold climate regions can achieve good indoor environmental quality (IEQ), with a minimum use of our precious resources and energy. The Conference will...

The ministers with responsibility for climate from the Nordic countries and Poland will meet on Tuesday in Copenhagen to discuss the ongoing climate process. The Nordic ministers for the environment will hold an internal meeting in the morning. However, the discussion in the afternoon will focus on the negotiations for a new...

News from UArctic's IPY Office

Fri, Apr 04, 2008
On Tuesday, April 8, middle- and high-school students from Fairbanks, Shageluk and Wasilla, Alaska, will join with students from the other end of the globe, in Ushuaia, Argentina, in a live two-hour videoconference that is part of International Polar Year (IPY) activities at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF).

When Nikolas Sellheim arrived in Rovaniemi, Finland for the first time in September 2007, he knew he was in exactly the right place. Although the 27 year old Berliner has had an interest in the North for many years, his decision to study the Arctic Studies Program at the University of Lapland in Finnish Lapland has confirm...



ARCUS is accepting applications from Masters and PhD students for travel scholarships to attend the 20th Annual Meeting and Arctic Forum 2008, being held in Washington, DC on 13-15 May 2008. The theme of this year's meeting is "Tipping Points - The Arctic and Global Change."