"True people" (Nenei nenecha) is the self-name of Nenets, the indigenous people of the Yamal peninsula (Russia), and the name of the complex 2015–2016 ethnographic expedition. Project participants will become part of the reindeer herders' family during the whole year just to “dive” in the casual life of Arctic nomads in XXI c...

ACI Europe together with Murmansk Shipping, IMO and Swedish Government is organizing 7th Arctic Shipping Summit, taking place in London, 11th – 12th November 2015

V International Conference "Culture, science, education: problems and prospects" will be held at Nizhnevartovsk State University 9-10 February 2016.

Arctic Frontiers Emerging Leaders calls for young professionals and Ph.D. students/post docs to meet with representatives from academia, business and the public sector through an inspiring and educational program. Emerging Leaders for the Arctic challenge will be arranged in Norway, 20 - 26 January 2016.

The 2015 UArctic Rectors' Forum Declaration has now been approved, following their meeting in Umeå in August, and is available on the UArctic website. In addition, the participants of the Students' Forum have also finalized their 2015 Students' Forum Declaration.

UArctic is launching a call for an internship position for the Spring 2016 at UArctic Research Liaison and Thematic Networks Office at the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland.

September 4-6, 2015 in the frame of the VIII All-Russian Festival of Mass Communications, participants attended the final conference "Tourism's image as a factor of socio-economic development in the Far East and Siberia."

The fieldtrip of students from the Arctic University of Norway (UiT), University of Tromsø, headed by prof. Kare Kullerud with assistance by Anna Pryadunenko to South Verkhoyansk was held from June 28 till July 11, 2015. The field trip was organised by the Thematic Network on Arctic Geology.

Cooperation between Arctic and non-Arctic countries holds great potential for the future of the Arctic region, explains Justin Kim, Head of Polar Policy Research Center at Korea Maritime Institute. The article was originally published in the UArctic Shared Voices Magazine 2015.

In August, in the framework of the II International Field School Seminar "Paleological biogeotsenosis of Mesozoic and Cenozoic ages in Northern Hemisphere " the scientific expedition of Tomsk State University at the new location of the mammoth fauna finished successfully.

September 4, Arctic State Institute of Arts and Culture (Russia) held III International Film Festival

The two interns from the Department of Environmental and Business Economics of the University of Southern Denmark will support the UArctic at the International Secretariat of the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland and the north2north International Mobility Office at the Uit-The Arctic University of Norway, Campus Alta.

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) is looking for new photographs for their annual yearbook publication 2016.

Surgut Central Children's Library (Russia) held a presentation of a unique book. Its content is available to all children including the blind.

Maria Ackrén from University of Greenland was one of the applicants who received financial support from north2north, UArctic mobility and exchange programme for teachers, researchers and students. During her stay in The Faroe Islands in April 2015, Maria associated with an Academic Board Meeting for the West-Nordic studies.