Foreign ministers from the eight Arctic states and representatives of the Arctic Indigenous Peoples met on May 15 in Kiruna at the conclusion of Sweden’s two-year Chairmanship of the Arctic Council. “In its two years as Chair of the Arctic Council, Sweden has contributed to strengthening cooperation within the Arctic Cou...

Organisers have extended the Call for papers for the 2013 Arctic Energy Summit: “Richness, Resilience, and Responsibility – The Arctic as a Lasting Frontier” October 8th -10th, 2013 Akureyri, Iceland. In particular, additional proposals from outside North-America are sought.

The Ministerial Meeting of the Swedish Chairmanship will be held 15 May 2013 in Kiruna, Northern Sweden. This meeting marks the end of the Swedish Chairmanship and the beginning of the Canadian Chairmanship. UArctic serves an observer status in Kiruna with president Lars Kullerud and pro-rector Kjell Jonsson from Umeå Univer...

'Arctic Cities, Global Processes and Local Realities' 2-4 December, 2013, Rovaniemi, Finland. Call for Papers deadline: Extended 15 June 2013 Registration: starting June 2013 (Deadline: 7 October 2013). The City of Rovaniemi and the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland would like to invite scholars and practitioners int...

Ross Virginia of the UArctic Institute for Applied Circumpolar Policy at Dartmouth College is one of the authors of an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, Hands Across the Melting Ice. The article addresses international relations in the circumpolar region in the context of climate change and increased resource extraction.

"Nordic Light"- an art photography exhibition at the heart of beautiful Österlen in Skåne, Sweden at the Bränneriet Art gallery, Södra Björstorps säteri Open May 12 - September 1, 11.00 - 17.00 By Photographer Staffan Widstrand - "There is a special feel to the natural light in the Nordic region", says Staffan Widstrand, "A s...

The President of the University of the Arctic, Lars Kullerud, last week held meetings in Brussels with the European Commission, DG Mare, and the European External Action Services. The purpose of the meetings was to update the Commission Officials on the work of the University of the Arctic in general, and in particular to lin...

GREEN BELT OF FENNOSCANDIA – 2013 which will take place at the Karelian Research Centre, RAS - Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia – in a period between October 7th and 12th, 2013 The Conference is listed on the Key Events Plan of the Environment Year approved by the Government of the Russian Federation. Attached is the Second Cir...

The Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, is offering one 3-year PhD studentship, to start on 1st October 2013. The studentship will include full UK/EU fees, a maintenance stipend at RCUK rates, and the full ESRC fieldwork stipend. Additional funds may be available to fund conference travel and digitisation/...

Register to the on-line application system already now, and apply INTERACT Transnational Access to conduct research at the coolest places of the North! 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 r...

 3 year full time PhD position at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and the Barents Institute in Kirkenes. (2nd call)The position is associated to the Future North project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council within its SAMKUL Program. Future North aims to map and document the current Arctic and Subarctic...

Lassi Heininen, Professor of Arctic Politics from the University of Lapland and the leader of the Geopolitics and Security Thematic Network has been invited to the International Advisory Board of the newly established Arctic Circle www.arcticcircle.org   

Among the Canadian Studies Center news are the following: Canadian Studies & Campus Partners Awarded Mellon Foundation Grant:The Center, in partnership with Program on Climate Change, Atmospheric Sciences, Anthropology, Scandinavian Studies, the Ellison Center (for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies), and th...

The Nordic Council of Ministers Arctic Co-operation program has granted funding for arranging planning workshop in 2013 (200 000 DKK) to continue the development of a new PhD program on Arctic Health and Well-being. The initiative is a joint project by Thematic Networks on Health and Well-being in the Arctic and Global...

The 17th IROICA Annual Conference will be hosted this year by the University of Eastern Finland from Wednesday 12th to Friday 14th of June 2013,The theme of this year's conference will focus on the role of IROs in directing universities through the currentand upcoming changes to EU policy and programmes. Keynote speakers from...