The 2017 Arctic Energy Summit will address energy in the Arctic as it relates to small and off-grid community energy solutions, oil and gas development, renewable energy, regulation and financing, and transportation and transmission.

UArctic's institutional leaders have enjoyed an excellent set of collaborative discussions at the 2017 Rectors' Forum which concluded today, having taken place August 23-25 at the University of Aberdeen.

The ICCH congresses are held every third year in different locations in the circumpolar area and represent the largest scientific meetings worldwide on circumpolar health. The 17th International Congress on Circumpolar Health will be organized in Copenhagen, Denmark in August 12–15, 2018.

The publication "Russian Laws on Indigenous Issues. Guarantees, Communities, Territories of Traditional Land Use: Translated and Commented" consists of translations of and commentaries on three federal laws on guarantees of the rights of indigenous small-numbered peoples, on indigenous communities, and on territories of tradi...

The 2017 fall course arranged by the Arctic Extractive Industries Thematic Network to be held 13-19 October has changed its location.

The Arctic Semester is an opportunity for international master students to experience the unique environment and the challenges of extreme engineering north of the Arctic Circle, in the Greenlandic town of Sisimiut. Apply for spring term exchange studies by October 15, 2017.

Professor Jeffrey Welker from the University of Alaska Anchorage was recently appointed as the first UArctic Chair, with the position hosted by the University of Oulu. In this introduction he shares his concerns regarding the future of the Arctic, and what his priorities are in his new role.

The DiscoverBarents nature photography competition invites photo submissions from anyone interested in photography. The aim of the competition is to receive high-quality photographs of places of interest and of the local nature, which the local tourism industry can use for their marketing purposes in the future. The competiti...

Arctic Frontiers Science 2018 takes place 23-25 January 2018 in Tromsø, Norway. Abstracts can be submitted until 19 September 2017 under the following topics: Aquaculture in the High North in Times of Change; the New Arctic in the Global Context; Resilient Arctic Societies and Industrial Development; and Circumpolar Safety, S...

Seven new Thematic Networks were approved by the Council of UArctic at their 20th annual meeting held August 2017 in Nuuk, Greenland.

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) will host a webinar on the Fulbright Arctic Initiative on 25 August 2017. During this webinar, co-lead scholars Mike Sfraga and Ross Virginia and others will reflect on their experiences and the impacts of this variation on the Fulbright model. The webinar is open to th...

The ArcticNet Network of Centres of Excellence and its national and international partners invite the international Arctic research community to the International Arctic Change 2017 Conference to Québec, Canada from December 11-15, 2017. Registration is open, and abstracts can still be submitted until September 22.

The Council of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) has concluded its 20th meeting, held August 15-17, 2017 in Nuuk, Greenland, hosted by Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland. The meetings in Greenland also featured a pre-conference excursion to Sisimiut, organized by the Arctic Technology Centre (ARTEK) of the Danish Te...

The 7th Northern Political Economy symposium will address political aspects of life in the Arctic as well as the Arctic life as an object of politics, even in the academia. The event will be held in Loma-Vietonen (Ylitornio), 65 kilometres northwest from Rovaniemi, Finland. Registrations by 15 September 2017.

David Palma participated in an interdisciplinary PhD and post-doc summer school in Longyearbyen, Svalbard in early August 2017 to learn about the challenges and opportunities related to governance of the Arctic Ocean, focusing on the marginal ice zone (MIZ). In this blog post, he shares his experiences and what he learned dur...