The Transatlantic Science Week is an annual trilateral science and innovation conference that promotes the collaboration between research, innovation, government, and business in Canada, the United States and Norway.  Held in Toronto, Canada, this year's theme focuses on "The Arctic: Societies, Sustainability, and Safety".  

"I had the opportunity to be the linkage between the UArctic Thematic Network and a new exciting partner in Greenland."

"The MobilityDK allowed me to obtain teaching experience as well as developing my knowledge of this island nation in the West Nordic region of the Arctic, the Faroe Islands."

August 23-28 the Community Development Institute at the University of Northern British Colombia (CDI-UNBC) and the Centre for Aging and Society at Trent University in Canada organized an international research symposium on this particular issue in a small rural community called Tumbler Ridge up in the western part of the Rock...

Komi Republic Academy of State Service and Administration with the support of the foundation “Russian World” holds  International Scientific Conference: Actual Problems of Teaching Russian Language and Literature for the Finno-Ugric Audience on 26 – 29 November, 2014.

The annual Gargia conference in Alta has for ten years been a kind of annual meeting of the Thematic Network on Local and Regional Development in the North. After the leadership was transferred from Associate Professor Tor Gjertsen (UiT, The Arctic University of Norway) to Professor Oksana Romanova (North-Eastern Federal Univ...

The event will take place on Oct. 13th from 16:00 – 21:00 in the Penthouse Suite, Collingwood College.  Drinks and a light supper will be provided.

The Research workshop on ‘Elderly & the Arctic change’ will be held on 4th to 5th of September 2014, at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.

Traditional knowledge festival will be held in Sept 20-21 in Yellowknife. The event is sponsored by a Canadian Polar Commission. Registration, schedule and more about the festival visit: www.traditionalknowledge.ca

A scientific and artistic multidisciplinary international event in Reykjavík, February 26th, 27th, and 28th, 2015, organized by Daniel CHARTIER (Université du Québec à Montréal), Gunnar Thór JÓHANNESSON (University of Iceland), Katrín Anna LUND (University of Iceland), Ólöf Gerður SIGFÚSDÓTTIR (Iceland Academy of the Arts), S...

In June and July 2014, a lively gang of 25 students from nine countries have been studying the mysteries of the permafrost in the first international permafrost summer school for bachelor students arranged by UNIS.