Workshops and mentor sessions were held within UArctic Thematic Network on Local and Regional Development in the North by North-Eastern Federal University Institute of Finance and Economics’ professors for educational institutes in Churapchinsky district, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia. Around 40 people – academia repres...

The University of Oulu, Faculty of Science, announces a tenure-track opening for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Geography, specialisation on Political Ecology.

UArctic and the Korea Maritime Institute (KMI) are pleased to announce an opportunity for students from UArctic member institutions in Arctic States to participate in the 3rd Korea Arctic Academy in Korea - a 10 day  study program in July 6-15, 2017 at KMI together with students from Korean universities.

“Traditions and Transformations in the Sustainability of Rural Communities: Balancing Living Culture and Nature”.The 2017 North Atlantic Forum is taking place in beautiful Bø in Telemark, Norway - September 13th -16th 2017

Churapchinsky State Institute for Physical Education and Sports will hold All-Russia Scientific Conference "Physical Culture, Sports, Science and Education", on March 31, 2017.

Siberian Federal University invites to the International Summer School “Monitoring and Early Warnings in Water Governance” in Krasnoyarsk, Russia on July 10–23, 2017.

Karelian Research Center RAS invites to the 14th International Conference of the Russian Society for Ecological Economics “Ecological and economic problems of development of regions and countries (sustainable development, management of natural resources)”, to be held on July 3-7, 2017 in Petrozavodsk (Republic of Karelia).

College and university students around the world are invited to submit a poster for the Sustainable Indigenous Tourism Symposium in Nanaimo, British Columbia taking place from April 12-13th, 2017. The conference is titled, “Innovations in Community Based Research and Management for Sustainable Indigenous Tourism Development”,...

In this interview to UArctic Research office Heikki Hokkanen, Professor of agricultural entomology and applied ecology in University of Helsinki shares his experience of creating a new Thematic Network.

The Arctic Broadband Forum will unite educators, researchers and industry from across the World to discuss the challenges, successes and potential of telecommunications and broadband deployment in the Arctic for economics, healthcare and education.

On 24-26 May 2017, the 5th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium, hosted by Dalian Maritime University in collaboration with Polar Research Institute of China, will take place in Dalian, a port city in Northern China, with the conference theme of “Towards the Future: Trans-regional Cooperation in the Arctic: Development a...

13-15 June 2017 at University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway The Arctic is often claimed to be a unique region, both for its natural environment, as well as the peaceful political conditions that continue to prevail, despite the tensions and challenges taking place on a global scale. Cooperation in the Arctic has...

The organizing committee from Swiss Polar Institute calls for poster proposals by PhD and Early Career Researchers to "High Altitudes meet High Latitudes: Globalizing Polar Issues" Conference, September 11-12, 2017 Switzerland, Crans-Montana.

AMAP Assessment 2015: "Temporal Trends In Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Arctic" has now been published.

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