The Board of Governors of UArctic gathered in Hanover for the annual board meeting, the meeting was hosted by Darthmouth College and took place from November 29 to December 1, 2018. The Board discussed legal review and fundraising, where GG+A led a fundraising workshop.

In November 2018, Prof. Timothy Skinner from the University of Copenhagen went to the University of Akureyri, Iceland, on a north2north staff mobility stay. The purpose of the stay was to visit the School of Health Science.

Dr. Hadley Friedland from the University of Alberta, holds a public keynote speech titled “The Recovery and Resurgence of Indigenous Laws” on Monday December 10 at 9 – 10.30 at Polarium Auditorium, Arktikum in Rovaniemi. The lecture will be streamed live on Arctic Centre's YouTube.

The Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education (DAFSHE) approved and is funding The Thematic Network on Northern Nursing Education new project: Interprofessional Education as an Innovative Pathway for a Culturally Relevant Health Workforce: A Greenlandic Model. The project is a collaboration between, University of Saskatc...

H.E. Kang Kyung-wha, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea, and H.E. Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, will make keynote speeches in the Opening Session of the 2018 Arctic Circle Korea Forum.

Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) opens for applications for their Visiting International Fellowship & Canadian-International Visiting Fellowship. OFI encourages trans-national training and help build better ocean leaders.

UArctic's new Academic Endorsement program aims at offering additional visibility and esteem to applying member institutions by endorsing key courses and programs.

Academic North – project aims to promote the proficiency, competitiveness and well-being of the northern parts of the Nordic countries by furthering academic mobility and employment in a socially sustainable way.

In September 2018 Tenna Jensen and Kamilla Nørtoft from Ageing in the Arctic project (AgeArc) travelled to Iqaluit, Nunavut, for a week to begin building up a partnership with Dr. Gwen K. Healey, MSc., PhD, Fulbright Arctic Initiative Scholar, Executive and the research group at Scientific Director Qaujigiartiit Health Resear...

The 6th annual competition for Nenets youth in their native language "Vadava letrahava" ("Let's preserve our mother tongue") took place in the city of Naryan-Mar, Russia, on previous Saturday, November 24.

On November 1, 2018, the business incubator of Ukhta State Technical University hosted the opening and plenary session of the second International SPE Symposium on hard-to-recover and unconventional hydrocarbon resources.

Thematic Network on Health and Well-being in the Arctic announces the PhD Course "Community based health research – methods and strategies", 2nd - 7th October, 2019, Nuuk, Greenland to be held in conjunction with Nunamed X conference "Movement in Health". Location of the course: Greenland Centre of Health Research, University...

On November 12, Harbin Engineering University in collaboration with Northern (Arctic) Federal University established the Arctic Blue Economy Research Center (ABERC).

Ten University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) graduate and undergraduate students, along with faculty members Brandon Boylan and Mary Ehrlander, participated in a Model Arctic Council program at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland, in October. The University of Akureyri will host the next fully international program in...

Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) hosts an international Arctic Summer School in 2019, with the aid of several arctic actors. The main topic of the Summer School is: To understand Arctic: Environment and Ecosystem. Click here for full course description and additional information. The application deadline is March 31, 2019.