Leaders of many UArctic's member universities met during the first day of the UArctic Congress 2018 to share experiences and address key issues facing northern higher education, including the main themes of the event.

Hosted by the University of Oulu and the University of Helsinki, the UArctic Congress 2018 represents the largest event ever organized by the University of the Arctic, with over 600 participants from more than 30 countries.

The 2018 issue of the UArctic Shared Voices magazine is now available online! This year the focus is on education and the many forms it takes in the Arctic.

We do not accept registrations for UArctic Congress events in Oulu anymore. Registration is still open for one-day passes for Helsinki.

Laukunleuka is a piece of jewelry that carries an Arctic story.

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There will be nearly fifty open vacancies for fixed-term doctoral candidate positions at the University of Turku from 1 January 2019 onwards. The call for applications will be open 3–21 September 2018.

Northern (Arctic) Federal University (Arkhangelsk, North-West Russia) invites PhD students to participate in the International PhD School “Russia in the Arctic Dialogue: Local and Global Context” that will be held on 5-11 April, 2019 at the university as a side event of theV International Arctic Forum “Arctic: Territory of Di...

All the UArctic Congress participants are invited to a Norwegian event on Monday, September 3, 2018 at 17:30-19:00  at the University of Oulu (Saalasti Hall).

The Department of Physics and Technology announces two vacant PhD Candidate positions in the area of Arctic Remote Sensing. The research themes are: “Multi-Sensor, Multi-Scale Integrated Remote Sensing for Arctic Sea Ice monitoring” and “Remote Sensing of Extreme Ocean Events (Polar Lows)”. Application deadline is September 10.

It's only a few days until UArctic Congress 2018, where over 600 participants from nearly 30 countries are gathering together to discuss topical Arctic issues and network with colleagues. The Congress will take place in Oulu and Helsinki, Finland on September 3-7, 2018.

Culturologists from the Humanitarian Institute of the Siberian Federal University conducted linguistic field research in the settlements of the Evenki municipal district (Krasnoyarsk region, Russia) within the framework of the project "Revival of the Evenki Language".

Post-doctoral researcher Melina Kourantidou from University of Southern Denmark participated in the 4th Korea Arctic Academy (KAA) in July 2018. In her article on the Mereconomics she reflects on South Korea´s interests and role in the Arctic. 

Abstract submission is now open for the YOPP Arctic Science Workshop to be held from 14 to 16 January in Finland, Helsinki.

The objective of the collaboration between five Arctic universities—The Arctic5 —is to build a collaboration model for teacher education and to develop a broad common educational offering. The long-term objective of the collaboration efforts is to develop a Nordic Master’s Degree Programme for teacher education.