Three Chairs have now been accepted as members of the Academic Advisory Board (Mimir), Karl Kreutz, Philip Steinberg, and Tuija Turunen. Mimir is the UArctic Academic Advisory Board, which serves as a high-level strategic body for UArctic.



UArctic Chair David Anderson in collaboration with Professor Jun Akamine of Hitotsubashi University begin a research project on the history of community whaling in the Arctic. One of the first community visits was in Klaksvík, Faroe Islands, where the history of the pilot whale hunt was narrated by local fishermen.




UArctic staff from all around the North convened for the annual staff retreat last week, this year held in Pyhä, Finland on November 25-28.

I am originally from northern Canada, Yellowknife, and currently live in southern Sweden. I started with UArctic as an intern in 2004, coming fresh out of university in Canada. I was really lucky, because my internship was split between the UArctic International Secretariat in Rovaniemi, Finland and the north2north mobility o...