Interreg IV A North invites applications for their project grants. These aim to promote cooperation and development across borders in northern Sweden, Finland and Norway. In the current round, the two regions Nord and Sápmi have priority. The deadline is 1 February 2016.

The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency’s Erasmus+ programme invites applications for its strategic partnerships in the field of education and training. Deadline for this call is 31 March 2016.

The EU's Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency’s Erasmus+ programme invites applications for its knowledge alliances action. This aims to strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity and foster innovation in higher education, business and the broader socio-economic environment. The deadline is 26 February 2016.

The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency’s Erasmus+ programme invites applications for its strategic partnerships in the field of youth. The deadline is 2 February 2016.

The EU's Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency’s Erasmus+ programme invites applications for its capacity building in the field of youth action. This aims to increase the capacity of organisations through the implementation of transnational capacity-building and mobility activities. The deadline is 2 February 2016.

We invite proposals for organizing scientific sessions for the UArctic Congress 2016, 12-16 September, Saint Petersburg, Russia. The call is open until 31 October 2015.

The ICE LAW project seeks to query legal options for the governance of ice in the polar regions. The Ice Law Project is an interdisciplinary project sponsored by IBRU: Durham University’s Centre for Borders Research and the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law.

Petrozavodsk State University scientists during the experiment with rats found that white nights can cause obesity and other diseases.

On December 16 researchers from Ural Federal University will start the first meteorite expedition to the Antarctic in the history of modern Russia. The expedition team plans to find meteorites and dust from Mars and the Moon in the South Pole. 

Recently, twelve reindeer husbandry youth were granted UArctic Scholarships through the UArctic EALAT Institute. [Source]

The primary purpose of the festival is to revive and reveal the profound nature of nationalities's culture in Ugra. The Festival starts November, 6  2015.

From 15 to 19 October 2015 in Reykjavik (Iceland) the I International Art Show «Circum-Arctic» takes place. The show is attended by artists, painters, masters of arts and crafts - representatives of the Arctic indigenous peoples from different corners of such  countries as  Canada, the United States (Alaska), Russia, Finland,...

Staff and students of Laurea University of Applied Sciences took part in the joint international rescue exercise organised by the countries in the Barents region. Laurea's responsibility in the Barents Rescue 2015 exercise in Lapland 28 September – 2 October was to carry out the evaluation of the exercise.

Yakutsk scientists from the Institute of the Humanities and the Indigenous Peoples of the North - Siberian Branch RAS, Arctic State Institute of Arts and Culture and NEFU took part in research trip to Canada from 24 September to 1 October organized by the University of Quebec in Montreal

Daniela Tommasini, PhD, from the University of Lapland received financial support from north2north, UArctic mobility and exchange programme for teachers, researchers and students. The support allowed her to visit the University of the Faroe Islands, April 22nd - May 3rd, 2015.