The Climate Arctic Governance (CArGo) network, supported by the University of Copenhagen, is happy to announce its first conference on Transitions in Climate Arctic Governance which will be hosted at the University of Copenhagen on September 16th 2022.

On World’s Ocean Day 8 June, UNIS’ new research boat, Hanna Resvoll, was baptized in Longyearbyen. The boat is named after the first female researcher on Svalbard, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, Norway’s first environmentalist. 

ASSW 2023 will be held in Vienna, Austria from 17 - 24 February 2023. 

Each year a new person is selected as a student representative for the UArctic Board for a three-year term.

EU-PolarNet 2 has as a general goal to generate a platform for the development of strategies that allow progress in a European Action for Polar Research and its contribution to the process of build European policies in this field.

The Calotte Academy 2022, with the title "The global Arctic today: cooperation & power politics, fossil economy & climate catastrophe, science & Indigenous knowledge" took place 10 – 18 June 2022 in Sapmi, the European Arctic. Read the student experience below.

YELLOWKNIFE – Aurora College has become the first Northern post-secondary institution to endorse the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Canada (Dimensions) Charter, and joins more than 100 Canadian post-secondary institutions to support its goals.

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) announces a new PSECCO community Slack channel.

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is accepting abstracts for the AGU Fall Meeting 2022. This hybrid meeting will take place 12-16 December 2022 in Chicago, Illinois and online.

Organized by the Anchorage Museum under various titles and forms for more than 30 years, Alaska Biennial celebrates place through the lens of contemporary art and encourages the creation of new works by Alaska artists.

The Foundation awards grants for academic scientific work in different fields of science. Grant Info (remote event) 4 August 2022 at 1pm–3pm. Register here.

We want to take the chance to congratulate SmartICE on their newly approved UArctic membership by sharing some news from March 2022. 

We are pleased to announce the UArctic Congress 2024 will take place May 29-June 2, 2024 in Bodø, Norway hosted by Nord University. 

In October 2021, Professor Trevor Bell received the inaugural Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award for his ground-breaking achievements on climate change adaptation with SmartICE.

The Arctic Centre Groningen will host a Winter School from 16-20 January 2023, aimed at (inter-) national civil servants and policy makers, politicians, managers, financial experts, (young) academics and PhD students who are looking for a nuanced and wide-ranging understanding of the Arctic.