The international summer school “Prospects for Sustainable Development of the Oil-Producing Region of Yugra” will take place in Yugra State University, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia on 18 – 31August, 2014. It is organized in frames of the DAAD project “Go East Sommerschulen”, which means that 8 students from Germany can get full sc...

Main theme: Sovereignty in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region Time: 19–25 May, 2014 Place: Petrozavodsk The School introduces to the globalized world with an economy run by trans- national corporations and governments, underlines the importance of energy security and the related mass-scale utilization of fossils. This, together w...

The Arctic race is heating up. As the next Arctic Council meeting takes place in 2015, 2014 is a critical year for developments in the High North. We’ve witnessed record low levels of Arctic Ocean sea ice, offshore drilling breakthroughs and setbacks, mining joint-ventures, expanding shipping routes, new observer states...

The University of Oslo is proud to introduce a new interdisciplinary course "A Changing Arctic" that combines Natural Sciences, Law and Social Sciences to explore the environmental, legal, and political changes in the Arctic region. The course takes place on 21 June - 1 August 2014 at the University of Oslo, Norway. Applica...

(From The Daily, University of Washington, by Naqiah Azhar) UArctic member the University of Washington has approved a new minor degree program in Arctic Studies through their Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Oceanography, and College of t...

The Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) at the University of Tasmania, is proud to join the Polar Law Institute in Akureyri and the University of Akureyri in Iceland, and the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law of the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, the University of the Arctic, a...

The World NGO Day 2014 Forum will be held at Scandic Marina Congress Center in Helsinki, Finland on the 27th- 28th February 2014. yourngoday.com

The Human Rights Centre of the United Nations mandated University for Peace (UPEACE-HRC) and Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) jointly conduct several professional e-learning courses throughout the year on diverse range of human rights issues. These six-week certificate courses are aimed at professionals working with t...