The event was held for the first time in Kuopio campus, March 12-14, 2024, and in Joensuu campus, March 19-21, 2024. The Sustainability Days aimed to provide an opportunity to explore UEF’s sustainability expertise across various disciplines and fields of study.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and NordForsk, the science funding body of the Nordic Council of Ministers, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Research Cooperation. The MOU provides an overarching framework to encourage collaboration among U.S., Nordic, and Canadian research communities and sets out...

The Government of Canada is joining NordForsk’s international research initiative on Sustainable Development of the Arctic with research funding organizations from Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the United States. 

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) invites registration for the next Arctic Research Seminar featuring Christopher Marianetti (Found Sound Nation) and Yaari Walker (Alaska Pacific University). The presentation, titled Sounds of Beringia, will be held via Zoom on Thursday, 28 March 2024 at 9:00 a.m. AKDT (1:00...

This inaugural Nansen lecture for Dr. Romain Chuffart will discuss the role of justice in the evolution of Polar Law both as an academic field and as a practical objective in the addressing the current governance crises. The event will take place at the university of Akureyri, Iceland, on April 8, 2024 at 13:30-14:30 (UTC+0)....

This was a concluding Nansen lecture for Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen as he discuss the place of science diplomacy in navigating changes to international and Arctic order. The lecture was held on February 12, 2024 at the Univesity of Akureyri.

Rashtriya Raksha University shares its experience on the first International Workshop on India’s Polar Region Policy Towards Building Partnerships for Sustainable Development that was held on 12th and 13th March 2024.

The “Connecting Communities” project is exploring the feasibility of connecting Polar Educators, Early Career Researchers, and Arctic Indigenous representatives at "PEI2025 - Building Polar Bridges: Exchange, Inspire, Collaborate" in support of the 4th International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV).

A new EU research infrastructure project POLARIN in the polar regions, coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, has started in the beginning of March. 

Prof. Alun Hubbard will become the new Director of the Thule Institute at the University of Oulu from 1 July, 2024. The Thule Institute coordinates and promotes the University's broad and multidisciplinary Arctic and Polar activities, research, faculties, and the Arctic Research Network, and hosts the UArctic Thematic Network...

This paper explores tourism development in Greenland using connectivity as a prism to explore the emerging challenges and opportunities brought about by vast distances and limited and costly accessibility.

Open access edited volume: Mobilities on the Margins: Creative Processes of Place-Making, edited by Björn Thorsteinsson, Katrín Anna Lund, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson and Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir.

The KOPRI Arctic Fellowship is open to early-career scientists from Arctic countries and researchers of Arctic indigenous heritage who wish to visit and conduct research at KOPRI for up to 3 months.

Graduate student Jason Maitland from the Nipissing University travelled to Lapland, Finland, as part of a field course where he spent a week in Pyhä-Luosto National Park.

European Union Science Diplomacy Working Group 4 (WG4) on building capacity for European science diplomacy convened a two-day co-creation workshop during 6-7 March 2024, hosted by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analyses (IIASA) and the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna.