NRF & ESPON/ENECON Conference "Climate Change in Northern Territories" is going to take place at the University of Akureyri already next week 22nd -23rd of August 2013.The conference is completely free of charge, but registration is required. Registration is open until Friday the16th of August. Please visit here sign in h...

Seven years have passed since Natasha Letchford did her north2north exchange in Iceland, but the exchange has continued to affect her life up to this day.

The Arctic is melting, bringing both challenge and opportunity, and presenting a critical need for a conversation about the future. The Arctic Circle, an open assembly for international cooperation on Arctic issues, will convene for the first time in Reykjavík, Iceland, at the Harpa Reykjavík Concert Hall and Conference Centr...

The INTERACT project under EU FP7 has a Transnational Access program that offers access to 20 research stations in the northernmost Europe and Russian Federation. The sites represent a variety of glacier, mountain, tundra, boreal forest, peatland and freshwater ecosystems, providing opportunities for researchers from n...

Second Announcement and Call for Sessions. The International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) announces the 8th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VIII) to be held at the main campus of the University of Northern British Columbia, in Prince George, British Columbia, from 22-26 May 2014.

Despite still being a student, Hilkka Kemppi is already familiar with UArctic activities, especially the Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design (ASAD) Thematic Network.

International multidisciplinary conference takes place December 12-14, 2013 at the Université de Versailles - St. Quentin-en-Yvelines (France). Co-organized by ,the "Cultures, Environments, Arctic, Representations, Climate" Research Centre of the Observatoire de Versailles Saint-Quentin (OVSQ) and the Internati...

The application round for MobilityDK travel support is now closed. Thank you for your applications!The decisions will be made by August 30th, 2013, and accepted applicants will be informed of the decisions by the UArctic International Secretariat.

The Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research (NVP), in cooperation with Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) and University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), is hosting a symposium in Longyearbyen, Svalbard 26–28 August 2013. Via lectures, panel debates and open discussions, the symposium will address knowledg...

The Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University invites applications for two postdoctoral/assistant professor positions in Arctic Research. The postdoctoral scholarships/assistant professorships are three-year, full-time positions, beginning on 1 November 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter. The two positions co...

Most students agree that their student exchange was something they will never forget. For some, however, it also turns out to be the beginning of a new life abroad, as Shawn Jantzen experienced first hand.

Funding is available for a PhD student to study water mobility in frozen soils, through a research project sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This project will use a combination of state-of-the-art easurement techniques to quantify relationships among key variables in soil freezing and thawing processes,...

NARFU, the host of the recent UArctic Rectors' Forum, present a short video report on the event (in Russian only) of a discussion on the Northern Sea Route development.

Britt Bohlin, Governor of Jämtland, Sweden, will be the new Secretary General of the Nordic Council from the beginning of the new year. She will thus become the Council's highest ranking official, working at the Secretariat in Copenhagen. Please, click here for press release.

When your choice of education evolves around cultural studies, you may easily find yourself wandering off to study people on the other side of the world. But how and why does a Dane end up moving 2,100 km northwards from Copenhagen in order to bring her otherwise Australia-focused studies closer to home? For Sally Rosendahl,...