The Winter 2009/2010 issue of Witness the Arctic has been published online and is available online.

Scientific, social, cultural and educational challenges With forewords by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco and the UNESCO Director-General, t his title is now available.

The Organizing Committee invites to take part in the International Conference “Professional Education, 21st Century» which will be hosted by Taymyr College in Dudinka on April 1-5, 2010. (Address: Krasnoyarsky Krai, Dudinka, Shors Street, 25)

Northern Notes is the newsletter of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association, IASSA. It is published on the web by the IASSA secretariat twice a year with a Spring/Summer and a Fall/Winter issue, and is available to all web users.

The 1st EU–Russia Innovation Forum will be held on the 25 – 27th of May 2010 in the City of Lappeenranta, Finland. With the strong support of the Prime Minister of Finland and key innovation policy makers and stakeholders, the Forum will be the first high level innovation event between the EU and Russia.

Emilia Mariaana Battersby grew up in Worthing, on the South coast of England. With Finnish roots on her Mother’s side, she had many opportunities over the past 24 years to travel to Finland. Upon arriving to Rovaniemi in September, to begin the Arctic Studies Program, she was stunned by the beauty of autumn.

    Jacinthe Briand-racine from Montreal studies social anthropology at Laval University in Quebec City. In her third year she thought it would be a good experience to travel somewhere throughout her studies. With an interest in the Inuit of Northern Canada she thought it would be a good idea to seek a program which helped he...

On Wednesday, February 17, 2010 the UArctic Office of Undergraduate Studies hosted a first of its kind “Open Invitation” for all UArctic Russian member institutions and non-member institutions to attend a Circumpolar Studies Information Meeting. The meeting took place in Saint Petersburg, Russia at the State Polar Academy.

The International Polar Year Publications Database (IPYPD) currently describes 2,900 publications, and provides links to PDF files of most of them. If you are working on an IPY project, please report your project's publications to the IPYPD.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a new program solicitation (NSF 10-54) seeking Phase I proposals for the Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) program. Over the next several weeks, NSF will be offering three voluntary webinars to help prospective Principal Investigators better understand the requ...

The Board of Governors of The Barents Institute is pleased to announce that Dr Aileen A. Espíritu has accepted the position of Director effective 1 March 2010.

Bodø University College, in close cooperation with universities and academics from all countries in the Arctic, offers a 10cr. Course on Master level, named “Social Policies in the High North”. The course will take place in Bodø from October 4th till October 15th 2010. And you are welcome to join this broad international fell...

Alexandra Bernhardt was in her third year of studies at University of Giessen in Germany before she left to explore Scandinavia. With a major in geography and minor in resource management and meteorology she decided that the Arctic Studies Program in northern Finland would meet her study interests. Throughout the years she ha...

Please remember that registration for the Council meeting and hotel bookings should be done by no later than March 15th. The thirteenth University of the Arctic (UArctic) council meeting will be held in Yakutsk, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) from June 2-5, 2010.

The International Polar Year (IPY) Oslo Science Conference (OSC) “Polar Science – Global Impact” is being held June 8-12, 2010 in Oslo, Norway. This conference will bring together researchers from around the world to present the latest results of IPY and will be an invaluable opportunity for sharing results of Canadian IPY pr...