The UArctic Board has general responsibility for UArctic’s development and for its main priorities. The Board is a group of elected individuals and is currently comprised of the following members (see list).

UArctic’s Bylaws define the student representation in the Board of UArctic as consisting of three individuals, each appointed for a three-year term. Thus over a 3-year cycle each student will; in the 1st year of appointment serve as representative elect, in the 2nd year serve as the representative, and in the 3rd year serve as the outgoing representative. See section 4 of the UArctic Bylaws for full details of Board member responsibilities and elections.

In June 2025, the current outgoing student representative will complete his term on the Board, so this nomination process is for the appointment of a new student representative elect. In nominating and selecting members of the Board, efforts are made to ensure broad geographic, cultural and indigenous representation, as well as gender balance. In linked document is an overview of this nomination and selection process, as well as details on what information is to be included when nominating a student.

Appointed for a three-year term a student representative on UArctic’s Board should be:

  • A registered student from a UArctic member institution (at the time of appointment);
  • In good academic standing, and preferably having participated in a UArctic activity (i.e. Circumpolar Studies; north2north mobility; student seminar, etc.);
  • Able to represent a variety of student interests connected to the North;
  • Able to make the time commitment necessary (approx. 5hrs/month); and be
  • Willing to maintain close communications with relevant student organizations.

The 2nd year representative will act as the primary representative to participate in the Board meetings. In case they are unable to join the meeting, one of the other student representatives will participate. UArctic covers the travel costs of the voting student representative to the Board meetings.

Members of UArctic are invited to submit preliminary nominations to the Secretary of the Nominations Committee, Outi.Snellman@uarctic.org by 21 April, 2025.

Following an evaluation, UArctic’s Nominations Committee will submit a proposal to the Assembly, who will then vote to elect the new Board student representative during their meeting in June 2025.