The University of the Arctic is participating in this year's hArctic Frontiers conference in Tromso, Norway by hosting a number of side meetings and also presenting in the exhibit space.  The University of Tromso and UArctic are then hosting the UArctic Communications Workshop on Jan 25. Contact secretariat@uarctic.org for mo...

Some updates on the Conference planning from IPY 2012 Montreal are available in this e-notice, details below.

Updated program for the UArctic Communications Workshop at Arctic FrontiersUArctic and the University of Tromso (UiT) are hosting a workshop aimed at communications staff and international coordinators from UArctic member institutions to improve information sharing and cooperation across the network. The workshop is a side...

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Northern Notes, Issue 36 (Winter 2011/2012) is now available at http://iassa.org/images/stories/northernnotes_issue36.pdf

Student registrations for the "Snowtalks" PhD course People in a Changing World, organized by the UArctic Thematic Networks on Global Change and Health and Well-being in the Arctic, are now open. Please see the course page for more information.

UArctic's Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design is organizing a two-day (10th - 12th April, 2012) conference, Arctic Cinema and Applied Arts, which will take place at Inari, Finland, brings together national and international experts from the fields of culture, cinema and arts. The event will be of inter...

Arctic Yearbook 2012: “Arctic Strategies and Policies” ; Editor: Lassi Heininen, Northern Research Forum/UArctic-NRF Network on Geopolitics and Security, University of Lapland, lassi.heininen@ulapland.fi. Call for Abstracts (deadline): 1 March 2012 (200-250 words). Draft papers (deadline): 14 May 2012 (2500-5000 words)...

The Finnish-Russian Cross Border University networks (CBU and BCBU) announce their first joint summer school program entitled 'Multidisciplinary Dialogue – Wellbeing, Technology and Environment'. The 5-day course will be offered from the 27th to the 31st of August 2012, at the University of Lapland, in Rovaniemi, Finland.

“There was an ordinary lecture of pedagogy at Murmansk State Humanities University in October 2010. I was sitting on this lecture when a member of the international office came into the classroom and introduced the BNS-program (Bachelor of Northern Studies) as an international program for those who are interested in Ci...

The organizers of “Summer in Siberia-2012” program have made some changes in program dates.

This week the University of Akureyri hosts joint meetings of Ma-Mawi, UArctic's Strategic Area leads, and Thematic Network leads. These meetings will address the practical implementation of UArctic program delivery at all levels, as well as planing towards a new strategic plan starting from 2013.