UArctic and the Arctic Circle are pleased to open the call for nominations for the 2023 Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award. The Award includes a 100,000 euro grant to promising projects which address climate change through concrete actions and plans. The call is open until April 30, 2023.




The University of Oulu is one of the most significant multidisciplinary universities studying the northern regions of the world and giving education about them. The university's first Arctic strategy supports the continuation of the work. It was announced on January 24, 2023.


Partners from across UArctic and especially Indigenous communities are invited to support and inform the development of a proposal for the adoption of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) as a recognized teaching and learning approach across UArctic.


Vancouver Island University's Engaged Citizens Speaker Series is a forum designed to provoke intellectual, engaging and meaningful dialogue about social challenges, opportunities and the community around us while advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. 


Twenty-one youth leaders from Alaska, Canada & Greenland tapped for inaugural fellowship to advance Arctic community resiliency.

Safety in post covid tourism was on the agenda when Øyvind Paulsen, student at Master in Preparedness and Emergency Management at Nord University, recently attended a short-term exchange program through Lapland University of Applied Sciences in Northern Finland.

Community Operators complete a comprehensive training course where they learn how to assemble, operate, and maintain the SmartkAMUTIK and SmartBUOY sensors. They learn how to use ocean instruments and upload the information to SIKU, the platform where the data collected is shared with their community.