According to the new IASSA by-laws there will be an election of an IASSA president for the term 2017-2020. The candidates should include a presentation of the host university, financial and institutional commitments, experience and capacity in the proposal. Candidates will be presented in Northern Notes and on the IASSA website.




Dear students! Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Russia) will hold a youth forum "PROFormat" from 15 to 16 March. One of its sessions is called "PROPlanet" and connected with environmental awareness. Organizers ask young representatives of the Circumpolar region to record a 3-minute video on how to protect the pure nature of the...


A Story From An Intern

Wed, Feb 15, 2017
I have spent my last 3 and a half months as an intern at the UArctic Secretariat as part of a project funded by the Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation. My office was located at University of Lapland in the city of Rovaniemi (Finland). From several points of views, the experience was amazing and it was a great...

The Arctic is changing fast, both in terms of climate warming and in how organisms interact with each other. To understand the implications of such changes, we need to understand how Arctic ecosystems are structured, and how Arctic species are interlinked by complex, live interactions, such as predation and herbivory. In shor...

Global challenges affect us all. This summer, from 12-22 June, 2017, Bergen Summer Research School presents six PhD courses dealing with some of the most pressing global challenges, ranging from migration, higher education, global health, water management, poverty, and the use of language, taking place at the University of Be...



Today, on February 6, 2017, the Sami National Day also marks the 100-year anniversary of cross-border Sami collaboration. Exactly a hundred years ago, on February 6, 1917, the first Sami congress was held in Trondheim, Norway, bringing together 150 representatives from Norway and Sweden to advance joint issues.


On January 31, 2017 Henning Åkesson and Øyvind Paasche (Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and University of Bergen) invited Nordic researchers to sign a petition supporting their American colleagues in climate science.