Seven institutions, representing five countries, met at the UiT-The Arctic University of Norway campus in Alta, from Monday to Wednesday (5th-7th October) to gather ideas on implementation of a future shared masters degree program. 

The expedition «North Oykumena» of the North-Eastern Federal University has found unique data that could be used as a material to clone mammoth.

Paleontologists of Tomsk State University brought unique findings from their expedition to the Novosibirsk region: more than 600 large mammals’ remains of the Late Pleistocene of Northern Eurasia. According to paleontologists, their findings are from 17,000 to 11,000 years old.

The Symposium 2015 - “On, Under and Near the Melting Polar Ice: Human activities, management and the environment” will be held on October 22nd 2015, at the University of Nordland, Bodø.

The China-Nordic Arctic Research Centre (CNARC) invites you to the symposium which will be held in Rovaniemi, Finland, at 6.-9.6.2016. The main theme of the symposium is The Sustainable Arctic - Opportunities and Challenges of Globalization. Save the Date flyer.

When the first Indian exchange student arrived in Germany in 1951, he was welcomed by a crowd of people and festive cheer. Flowers, music and an excited crowds embraced the student. Today, this moment is diluted in the crowds of international students, arriving more unnoticed than half a century ago.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges will shortly be inviting proposals, under the health, demographic change and wellbeing work programme, for its H2020-CS1-2016-2017 Personalised Medicine Call. The first deadlines for this call are 13 April 2016.

The EU Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges will shortly be inviting proposals for its H2020-SFS-2016 call on sustainable food security – resilient and resource-efficient value chains. The call is expected to open on 27 October 2015 and the anticipated closing date of the first stage is 17 February 2016.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges will shortly be inviting proposals, under the Europe in a changing world work programme, for its H2020-CULT-COOP-2016-2017 understanding Europe: promoting the European public and cultural space call. The call is open now with a deadline in February 2017.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges is now inviting proposals, under the Secure Societies – protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens work programme for its H2020-SEC-2016-2017 Security call. The deadline for this call is 25 August 2016.

UArctic's north2north national agencies and institution representatives gathered in Stockholm Oct 14-15, 2015 for an meeting to discuss common issues of student exchange, and further develop the north2north mobility program. The north2north program provides exchange opportunites for students at participating UArctic members.

The KMI International Journal of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries is an international journal published biannually in June and December.

The Northern Arctic Federal University invites students and young people from European universities, colleges and municipalities to participate in the III International Belomorskiy Students Forum.  

The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nordland (UiN) is offering a new English master degree program in Social Science. The application deadline is February 1st 2016 for Non-EU citizens, April 1st 2016 for EU citizens and May 15th 2016 for Norwegian citizens.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges will shortly be inviting proposals, under the Europe in a changing world work programme, for its H2020-REV-INEQUAL-2016 reversing inequalities and promoting fairness call. The call will open on 27 October, and close on 4 February 2016.