The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) in cooperation with the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) is pleased to announce the availability of travel support for the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2020 (27 March - 2 April 2020, Akureyri, Iceland).

The Call H2020 Plastics in the environment: understanding the sources, transport, distribution and impacts of plastics pollution is open and closes February 13, 2020. The 2nd stage deadline: September 03, 2020.  

The Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland celebrated 30 years of Arctic research and science communication by organizing Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit conference.

The Call H2020 Enhancing the Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action on Climate, Environment and Health is open and closes February 13, 2020.

The Call H2020 Polar climate: understanding the polar processes in a global context in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions is open and closes February 13, 2020. The 2nd stage deadline: September 3, 2020.

The Call H2020 Sustainable management in extractive industries is open and closes February 13, 2020.

The Call H2020 Coordination of European Polar Research is open and closes February 13, 2020.

Check the open calls under Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge "Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials".   

With funding from the Greenland Research council, PhD student Judith Maréchal has been able to initiate a long wished for 3-year study on identification of health impacts of the water infrastructure in rural Greenland.

Northern (Arctic) Federal University invites researchers, PhD-students, and students to take part in the marine research and education expedition in the Arctic on July 17 – August 3, 2020.

We welcome proposals for sessions to be held either during the UArctic Congress program dates on October 6–7, 2020 or during a joint day with the Arctic Circle Assembly on Oct 8. Sessions can be comprised of dialogues and discussions, both oral and poster presentations, as well as panel or round table discussions. Deadline fo...

Firouz Gaini from the University of the Faroe Islands visited Canada with north2north mobility funding.

The goal of the workshops is to review and identify the Sámi and Indigenous pedagogy research needs at northern teacher education contexts and to support new research areas’ development.

The international One Health, One Future conference at UAF March 11-14, 2020.

Following the Arctic Circle Assembly in in early October, students at the Univeristy Centre of the Westfjords shared their summaries and impressions of the conference.