Greenland Perspective invites you to the symposium “From Stones to Bread - glacial rock flour for soil restoration, sustainable growth and solution of global problems” to be held on Wednesday, April 27 2016 at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Copenhagen.

On March 15, Russian expedition will travel to the Kara Sea to test the new cross-country vehicle. The machine was designed to set a world record – to achieve the North Pole on wheeled vehicles in offline mode. Vehicular transarctic expedition is planned for 2018.

UArctic's presence at the Arctic Science Summit Week, organized March 12-18, 2016 in at the University of Alaska Fairbanks ranges from a booth at the ASSW Exhibition to the UArctic Board of Governors meeting in conjunction with the week's events.

Arctic Voices: Expectations, Narratives and the Realities of Living with Extractive industries in the Far North (Edited by Emma Wilson and Florian Stammler ) is the name of a new special issue. [original article: Arctic Anthropology Blog, Florian Stammler]

Registration for the inaugural UArctic Congress 2016 is now open. The host, Saint Petersburg State University, is honoured to invite you to the first ever UArctic Congress, which will be held from Monday, September 12 through to Friday, September 16 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The Russian-German student contest Young Vision Award is a joint social initiative of Wintershall and Gazprom International. The two companies decided to organize it in order to bring together young students and experts from Germany and Russia. Our aim is to foster exchange of ideas in the area of oil and gas production and t...

Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU) is welcoming applications to the High North Programme supporting projects contributing to increased knowledge about or relevant to the High North. Application deadline is 17 October 2016.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges, under the secure, clean and efficient energy work programme, invites proposals for its H2020-EE-2017 energy efficiency call. The deadline for this call is 19 January 2017.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Excellent Science invites proposals for its H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017 Marie Sklodowska-Curie innovative training networks call. The deadline for this call is 10 January 2017.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges invites proposals, under the health, demographic change and wellbeing work programme, for its H2020-SC1-PM-2017 personalised medicine call. Deadline is 4 October 2016.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Excellent Science invites proposals for its H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual fellowships call. The deadline is 14 September 2016.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Excellent Science invites proposals for its H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2016 Marie Sklodowska-Curie co-funding of regional, national and international programmes call. Proposals will be invited between 14 April and 29 September 2016.

The University of Vienna, in cooperation with the European University in St. Petersburg, announces the call for a PhD summer school, August 28 - September 9, 2016 in Vienna, Austria. Apply by April 4.

Starting April 11, 2016 in Kautokeino, Norway, this is a two week course in Biological Diversity in a Circumpolar Indigenous Perspective organized by the Sámi University College and the UArctic EALÁT Institute in cooperation with the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry. Application deadline: March 23.

Registration is now open for the 2016 Arctic Circle Greenland Forum. The Forum is organized in cooperation with the Government of Greenland -- Naalakkersuisut -- and will be dedicated to economic development for the peoples of the Arctic.