A new application round will be open from December 2, 2013 to January 31, 2014 for the Master's Degree Programme in International and Comparative Law at the University of Lapland. During one and a half year, MICLaw graduates gain a wide perspective on Public International Law and Comparative Law, and specialize in either Arct...

The second application round for MobilityDK is now open. The MobilityDK pilot model provides travel support for students, staff and researchers from UArctic member institutions, and it is available for Arctic-relevant mobility to and from Danish, Greenlandic and Faroese institutions. The deadline for applications is January 3...

Welcome to the Towards North – Insights in Business Opportunities of Barents Logistics and Arctic Maritime Expertise seminar in Oulu on 29 November 2013. The aim of the event to bring out current situation and future possibilities of business, logistics and maritime traffic in Barents and other northern and Arctic...

Sandra Juutilainen is one of the several applicants who received travel support from MobilityDK, UArctic's pilot model for providing financial support for teacher, researcher and student exchange. The PhD student from Thule Institute at the University of Oulu used her travel support to participate in and present her PhD proje...

The international Gargia-Tana conference was held on October 23rd-25th, 2013 hosted by UiT The Arctic University of Norway and UArctic Thematic Network on Local and Regional Development.The Gargia-Tana Conference 2013 was funded by the Norwegian Barents Secretariat, the UArctic-fund of the Norwegian Ministry of Education, the...

Representatives from European Parliament, Council of Federation of RF, Nordic Council, Baltic Assembly, Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference of as well as from national parliaments and governments of Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Norway, Russia, and Sweden met to discuss perspectives of regional cooperation. The Northern...

ASSW 2014 in Helsinki, 5-11 April, including 2nd Arctic Observing Summit. For more information please see: http://www.assw2014.fi

The website for the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2015 in Toyama (Japan) is now available. The ASSW 2015 will be held on 23-30, April 2015 and include the final event of the 3rd International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP III). For more information please see the enclosed first circular or visit the websit...

A new application round will be open from December 2, 2013 to January 31, 2014 for the European Master in Tourism, Culture and International Management (EMACIM) program. The two-year master’s degree program at the University of Lapland provides graduates with the opportunity to gain knowledge and education in international bu...

Canadian partners in INTERACT (International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic), Centre d'études Nordiques (Centre for Northern Studies, CEN) and Arctic Institute of North America (AINA), open a call for research grant proposals for European-based research groups to conduct research at two f...

ArcticFinland is a portal to Finnish Arctic politics, discussion, research and economy. The website is http://www.arcticfinland.fi/fi  The contents of the English version are still under construction. Links will be made available  to original sources. Many institutions have their material also in English, however,  the Arctic...

The Hokkaido University-Finnish Universities Joint Symposium was held at Hokkaido University campus on October 30, 2013 as part of the Hokkaido University Sustainability Weeks in partnership with universities of Oulu, Lapland and Hokkaido. The Symposium was held for the fifth year in a row, and this time also focused on c...

The world’s northernmost design week is will be arranged in Rovaniemi for the sixth time on 17 – 23 February 2014. The new name for the Rovaniemi Design Week is Arctic Design Week. The programme-packed week will be opened on 17 February at the event arena, which will be erected in the area between the Pilke Science Cen...

The U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, which oversees the Fulbright Program has started holding conferences for alumni in specific areas of research; and one such event designed to maintain these connections was held in Abisko, Sweden, from October 30th to 31st, 2013.

The Olympic Flame visited the North Pole story by Lassi Heininen, a leader of Thematic Networks on Geopolitics and Security and  Professor of Arctic Politics at the University of LaplandThe Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay, which was carried by the Russian icebreaker “50 Years of the Victory”, reached the North Pole on the 19th...