It has been eight years since his student exchange at the University of Lapland, but Lukas Rastner is still in love with the North.

Jokkmokk Winter Conference on climate change, energy and sustainable development is an annual international forum for students, decision makers, entrepreneurs and opinion builders from Northern Europe, North America and Russia. The annual Jokkmokk Winter Conference 2013 report is available here. Also, more information availab...

Apply for autumn semester 2013 : UNIS can offer a total of 44 courses at the Bachelor-, Master- or PhD-level in autumn semester 2013. You can now apply for these courses online. More information about the courses and how to apply is found via the link below. Application deadline: 15. April 2013. Read more  

The Call for Papers is closing on April 15th.  Don't miss this opportunity to share your research and insights with your peers at the premier Arctic energy event.  We welcome submissions that directly address the conference theme. Submissions are accepted for Paper Presentations, Poster Sessions, Panels and Workshops.Click he...

The arctic delegation of the Norwegian Parliament Stortinget will visit Rovaniemi and Helsinki from April 8 to April 10. In Rovaniemi, the delegation gets to know the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, as well as to discuss with the mayor Esko Lotvonen about issues related to Barents region economic cooperation.More...

Conference on Sustainable Business in the Arctic that will take place in Stockholm on 18 April 2013.The conference will address challenges facing the Arctic and focus on the need for a structured business dialogue and discuss Corporate Social Responsibility in an Arctic context.The invitation to the conference from Mikael Anz...

The Canadian Polar Commission (CPC) Board of Directors met in Iqaluit on March 4-6, 2013 to continue directing the activities of the Commission and to approve its work plan and budget for Fiscal Year 2013-14. The Board also took the opportunity while in Iqaluit to meet with key Federal and Nunavut representatives to discuss a...

UAF’s Department of Geology and Geophysics offers a two-week field class, (June 9-22) in volcanology in cooperation with the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (IVS) and the Kamchatka State University (KSU) in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. The course is offered every summer both in Katmai National Park, Alaska, site...

The NVP-Nansen summer school 2013 “Shipping in Arctic Water: The interaction of sea ice, ship technology, climate change, economy and other operational conditions” will be organized in Longyearbyen on  Svalbard from 18th to 25th August. Graduate & postgraduate students are invited to submit applications for participation...

Oovtâst – Together. New concepts, theories and methodologies on Saami studies conference will be held in Inari, Finland on September 25th–27th, 2013. The aim of the conference is to chart this new multivoiced research and to find out at what point Saami studies are today and what are the main questions, new thoughts, and dire...

On 27th April 2010, Norway and Russia signed a bilateral intention agreement concerning higher education. On Monday 18th March 2013 State Secretary Ragnhild Setsaas at The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research met Alexandr Klimov ,Russian Vice-Minister for Education and Research at University of Nordland. Read more fr...

The University of the Arctic welcomes expressions of interest from all full member institutions and organisations keen to host a candidate for the position of UArctic Vice-President Indigenous. Interested members have until May 1st, 2013 to submit expressions of interest to the UArctic UArctic Secretariat

At the 7th Congress of the Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation (RAIPON), held in Salekhard, Russia from March 27th to 30th, delegates elected Grigory Ledkov as the new President of the association. Also during the Congress, Pavel Sulyandziga was re-appointed as the First Vice-Pr...

The 8th Circumpolar Agricultural Conference UArctic Inaugural Food Summit: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in the Circumpolar North will be held September 29–October 3, 2013 in Girdwood, Alaska, USA, hosted by the University of Alaska Faribanks and organized by the UArctic Thematic Network on Northern Food Securi...

The president of UArctic, Lars Kullerud and the rector of Sami Education Institute, Lisa Holmberg are representing UArctic at the 7th Congress of the Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation. The conference takes place in Salekhard from 27 to 30 of March. The Congress is organised by...