When Helgi Winther Olsen's trip to this year's My Northern Project competition was cancelled, the opportunity to share his work on FIT FIRST FOR ALL program in person was lost. However, the findings of his project, which tackles physical inactivity among Nordic youth, are too important to overlook.

Are you planning to establish a new UArctic Thematic Network? The deadline for this round of proposals is February 28, 2025.

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.

The Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP) invites applications for the 2025 JIRP field season. Deadline for summer program and scholarship applications: 13 December 2024.

The Fulbright Finland Foundation is offering a unique opportunity for 18 to 26-year-old students with a passion for sustainability, culture, and global collaboration. Apply now to join the Arctic conversation in Anchorage, Alaska, in April 2025!

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.

Organizers are seeking Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA) reviewers for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting session “Status, Trends, and Processes of Lake and River Ice.”

Organizers invite session abstracts for the 2025 Alaska Outdoor and Environmental Education Symposium: Strength in Community, to be held in-person Friday, 21 February 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska. Session proposal deadline: Sunday, 15 December 2024.

The co-chairs of the Research Priority Team 3 for the International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP) IV invite input via their survey,  Understanding the Dynamics and Resilience of Arctic Social-Ecological Systems to Foster a Sustainable Future .

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...

ARCUS invites registration for the next Arctic Research Seminar featuring Jessica Mejia (Syracuse University) and her presentation titled Cracks in the Ice: Using observations and models of crevasse growth to understand the transport of water to the base of glaciers and ice sheets.

The University of the Arctic has opened a call for travel grants to MA and PhD students, as well as early-career researchers, attending the ICARP IV Summit during Arctic Summit Week 2025. Application deadline: December 15, 2024. 

Harvard Kennedy School’s Arctic Initiative is hosting an upcoming webinar on Arctic science diplomacy and U.S.-Russia relations. The event will be held on December 5, and registration is required to attend.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law is thrilled to announce the release of its latest volume of the Current Developments in Arctic Law (CDAL), Volume 12, 2024. This volume brings together a diverse collection of short academic articles, a commentary, a workshop report, and a note from the editor.