New inspiration on how to include findings from the Nordic Megatrends project into current policy strategies. To register, send an email including name, organisation, email and any special requests to klaus.georg.hansen@nordregio.se. Deadline for registration for the seminar is 23 May 2012. Visit the seminar’s webpage in or...

A prime objective since the founding of the Thematic Network on Managing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the North in June 2011 has been to fund activities within the network. Good news then is that the Thematic Network on Managing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises recently secured NOK 2.75 million (equivalent to...

Deputy Ministers of the Arctic Council met in Stockholm on May 15, 2012 together with the Permanent Participant Organizations and Arctic Council Observers. The meeting was chaired by the State Secretary for Foreign Policy of Sweden, Frank Belfrage. 

The United Nations mandated University for Peace Human Rights Centre is accepting applications for its annual field course entitled "Indigenous Peoples' Rights in the Field" that will take place from August 6 to August 12, 2012 in Costa Rica.

In September 2012 the 2nd International Festival of Amateur and Professional Films «Arctic Cinema» will take place at the NArFU campus, involving Russian and international experts and film-makers.

The North2North grant made possible for psychologist Eva Carlsdotter Schjetne to lecture about family therapy in Yakutsk.

The Northern Studies Virtual Conference invites students involved in undergraduate, masters, and doctoral studies to submit abstracts for the virtual conference to be held online on 28 August 2012. A virtual conference utilises the video conferencing capabilities of “smart classrooms” to established real-time video connection...

President of the University of the Arctic Lars Kullerud has been visiting University Centre in Svalbard. During his visit, he has met with the new director of UNIS, Ole Arve Misund, as well as, Mayor of Longyearbyen, Christin Kristoffersen.

This seminar is the third in the international seminar series which is a joint initiative by the Canadian Circumpolar Institute (CCI), University of Alberta, Canada and the Thule Institute, University of Oulu, Finland.

Many international exchange students take home special memories from their time at the University of Lapland. Snow sculpting, visiting Santa’s Village, seeing the northern lights - these are all unique opportunities exchange students enjoy while living and studying in Rovaniemi that result in endless amounts of shared photos...

In order to achieve a successful and sustainable partnership, a Memorandum of Understanding has been endorsed related to the Thematic Network on Social Work. The parties of the MOU are Umeå University, University of Regina, University of Nordland, Northern (Arctic) Federal University and Humboldt State University.

The Thematic Network on Social Work has contributed a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Social Work.

ArcSEES is an interagency, international, and interdisciplinary program which seeks both fundamental research that improves ability to evaluate the sustainability of the Arctic human- environmental system as well as integrated efforts which will provide community-relevant sustainability pathways and engineering solutions....

In April 2012, the second study trip within the frames of the project “Management of film festivals” went through Copenhagen, Stockholm and Luleå.

The Thematic Network leads of University of Oulu and University of Lapland are having a meeting from 3rd to 4th of May at Oulanka Research Station, Finland.