The workshop brings together 20 exceptional Indigenous youth leaders from across the Circumpolar North to share knowledge and experiences, build competence and confidence for leadership, and provide youth with important skills to support the needs and interests of their communities. Applications are due August 1.

Arctic Pandemics: COVID-19 and Other Pandemic Experiences and Lessons Learned In our effort to produce a timely platform for experts and knowledge holders to share their work, we are seeking papers and diverse contributions to form part of a Special Volume entitled Arctic Pandemics: COVID-19 and Other Pandemic Experiences and...



Arctic Horizon Scan 2022

Thu, Jun 30, 2022
The Oxford University Polar Forum, is are organising the Arctic Horizon Scan 2022, a collaborative effort to identify research priorities for the Arctic that will be important over the next decade.

The webpages have now been published for the four new Thematic Networks, which were approved by the UArctic Assembly in the meeting held on 1-3 June, 2022 in Portland, Maine.   


The Korea Arctic Academy, hosted by the Korean Ministry of Oceans & Fisheries and co-organized by the Korea Maritime Institute (KMI) and University of the Arctic (UArctic), is an initiative to facilitate exchanges between students from both the Arctic region and Korea in order to develop and share a common Arctic vision.


June 6, 2022 Just four days after being approved as a provisional University of the Arctic Thematic Network, the DALAM (Decolonizing Arctic Library and Archival Metadata) Network held its first in-person workshop, in conjunction with the 28th Polar Libraries Colloquy in Quebec City Canada. The Polar Libraries Colloquy is the...




The new UNIS boat is baptized

Tue, Jun 28, 2022
On World’s Ocean Day 8 June, UNIS’ new research boat, Hanna Resvoll, was baptized in Longyearbyen. The boat is named after the first female researcher on Svalbard, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, Norway’s first environmentalist.