Young Explorers Grants (YEG) offers opportunities to individuals ages 18 to 25 to pursue research, conservation, and exploration-related projects consistent with National Geographic's existing grant programs.

The Guidelines for establishing a new UArctic Thematic Network has been updated. The next deadline for submitting proposal is 1st of May 2016 for the Council meeting to be held in September in conjunction with the UArctic Congress 2016.

The Arctic Cooperation Programme of the Nordic Council of Ministers has opened up its call for project applications for financial support in 2016 to new project proposals as well as for the continuation of existing projects. The deadline for applications is January 18th 2016.

NordForsk launches a new two-phase call for proposals for Nordic Centres of Excellence within the Nordic Bioeconomy Programme. The programme aims to fund three Nordic Centres of Excellence within a budget of NOK 90 million. Application deadline for the first phase is 16 March 2016.

President of the Republic of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who is on an inaugural State Visit to Singapore, delivered the opening address at the Arctic Circle Singapore Forum alongside Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean.

Inuit Studies Conference 2016 to be held in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador on October 7-10, 2016.

3-5 November Warsaw hosted the annual meeting of the INTERACT project (International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic).

Engineering School of the Far Eastern Federal University invites undergarduate, Master and PhD students and researchers to take part in the International Ice Mechanics Winter Course which will take place in Vladivostok in February 2016. 

We are glad to invite you to take part in the 3rd International Science Forum “Interdisciplinary aspects of the dialogue of cultures”, devoted to the seventieth (70th) Anniversary of the UNESCO Chair and the 4th International Culture Forum taking place in Saint Petersburg on the 14th December, 2015.

Martin Kotol from the Technical University of Denmark's Arctic Technology Centre (ARTEK) in Sisimiut, Greenland received financial support from north2north, UArctic mobility and exchange programme for teachers, researchers and students. In July 2015, he visited Fairbanks, Alaska.

Northern lights - one of the nature's biggest wonders, on the TEDx event show.

UArctic Members and individuals in the communities they represent are asked to contribute feedback on Telecomm, Internet, Broadband needs of their organizations and communities for input to Arctic Council's Task Force on Telecommunications Infrastructure in the Arctic. Please take part in and distribute this survey to any ind...

Last week, the North-Eastern Federal University carried out the local Model Arctic Council, where students discussed Arctic issues and developed a declaration to improve the life quality in the North.

The Russian version of the eBook "Sustainable Development in the Circumpolar North: From Tana, Norway to Oktemtsy, Yakutia, Russia. The Gargia Conferences for Local and Regional Development (2004-14)" was presented in North-Eastern Federal University.

Russian Foundation for Humanities (RFH) and joint Baltic Sea research and development programme (BONUS) organize the International Competition of joint research projects in the humanities and social sciences. The call opens 9 November 2015. The deadline for proposal submission is 10 March 2016.