Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) opens for applications for their Visiting International Fellowship & Canadian-International Visiting Fellowship. OFI encourages trans-national training and help build better ocean leaders.
UArctic's Academic Endorsement Program
Fri, Nov 30, 2018
UArctic's new Academic Endorsement program aims at offering additional visibility and esteem to applying member institutions by endorsing key courses and programs.
Promoting Academic Mobility in the Arctic North
Thu, Nov 29, 2018
Academic North – project aims to promote the proficiency, competitiveness and well-being of the northern parts of the Nordic countries by furthering academic mobility and employment in a socially sustainable way.
Ageing in the Arctic project is building partnerships on a north2north mobility funding
Thu, Nov 29, 2018
In September 2018 Tenna Jensen and Kamilla Nørtoft from Ageing in the Arctic project (AgeArc) travelled to Iqaluit, Nunavut, for a week to begin building up a partnership with Dr. Gwen K. Healey, MSc., PhD, Fulbright Arctic Initiative Scholar, Executive and the research group at Scientific Director Qaujigiartiit Health Resear...
Students from two UArctic member institutions participated in the annual Nenets language competition
Wed, Nov 28, 2018
The 6th annual competition for Nenets youth in their native language "Vadava letrahava" ("Let's preserve our mother tongue") took place in the city of Naryan-Mar, Russia, on previous Saturday, November 24.
The 5th way to the Arctic Symposium: Challenges and prospects for the development of hydrocarbon reserves
Mon, Nov 26, 2018
On November 1, 2018, the business incubator of Ukhta State Technical University hosted the opening and plenary session of the second International SPE Symposium on hard-to-recover and unconventional hydrocarbon resources.
PhD Course "Community based health research – methods and strategies", October 2019 in Greenland
Mon, Nov 26, 2018
Thematic Network on Health and Well-being in the Arctic announces the PhD Course "Community based health research – methods and strategies", 2nd - 7th October, 2019, Nuuk, Greenland to be held in conjunction with Nunamed X conference "Movement in Health".
Location of the course: Greenland Centre of Health Research, University...
Arctic Blue Economy Research Center has been established at Harbin Engineering University
Mon, Nov 26, 2018
On November 12, Harbin Engineering University in collaboration with Northern (Arctic) Federal University established the Arctic Blue Economy Research Center (ABERC).
University of Alaska Fairbanks students and faculty in Model Arctic Council in Rovaniemi, Finland
Fri, Nov 23, 2018
Ten University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) graduate and undergraduate students, along with faculty members Brandon Boylan and Mary Ehrlander, participated in a Model Arctic Council program at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland, in October. The University of Akureyri will host the next fully international program in...
Harbin Institute of Technology announces an International Arctic Summer School for 2019
Fri, Nov 23, 2018
Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) hosts an international Arctic Summer School in 2019, with the aid of several arctic actors. The main topic of the Summer School is: To understand Arctic: Environment and Ecosystem. Click here for full course description and additional information. The application deadline is March 31, 2019.
Bioeconomy in the North is a network of ministries and funding agencies from Finland, Germany and Norway which coordinate their efforts to launch annual calls for R&D&I projects in the area of non-food / non-feed biomass resources exploitation. The network is a sustainable initiative funded in 2017 whose mission is to...
Call for applications to Nordplus 2019, deadline 01.02.2019
Thu, Nov 22, 2018
Nordplus is the Nordic Council of Ministers' most important programme in the area of lifelong learning. More than 10,000 people in the Nordic and Baltic region benefit from it every year
Book “Unconventional aspects of human security in the Arctic: Cases from the Barents Region” is now published
Thu, Nov 22, 2018
As part of the HuSArctic project, a book consisting of contributions from its mid-term conference held in the year 2017, has now been published by the University of Lapland, within Juridica Lapponica series. The book is edited by Kamrul Hossain (Lead of UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law) and Anna Petretei from the North...
HuSArctic project held the final conference in Helsinki
Thu, Nov 22, 2018
The HuSArctic project team gathered for the last time in Helsinki, Finland on 23rd to 26th of October 2018 for its final meeting!
“Human Security as a promotional tool for societal security in the Arctic: Addressing Multiple Vulnerability to its Population with Specific Reference to the Barents Region” (HuSArctic) is the 4 –...
HuSArctic launched its final publication - Human and Societal Security in the Circumpolar Arctic Local and Indigenous Communities
Thu, Nov 22, 2018
On 26 October 2018, during its closing conference, HuSArctic has presented its final publication Human and Societal Security in the Circumpolar Arctic – a book published by Brill. The attendees in the event included: series editor of the Studies in Polar Law from Brill, editors of the book, contributing authors and participan...