This blog post from the UArctic Thematic Network on Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity is related to the ConnectED project, which received funding from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science as a result of the 2021 UArctic Project Call for Networking Activities on Arctic Research.


The UArctic Academic Advisory Board – the Award Evaluation Committee – has selected four candidates to be considered for the 2023 Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award, all with great potential. The winner will be announced in October at the Arctic Circle Assembly. 



Approximately 120 participants from UArctic's member institutions attended the UArctic Assembly 2023 hosted by Université Laval in Québec City from 22-26 May 2023. The participants came from 15 different countries both in the Circumpolar North and from outside of the region.




In tandem with the opening of the legislative session in January, the University of Alaska released the first in a series of informational reports to aid state leaders as Alaska confronts a rapidly changing Arctic and the increasingly globalized North.

The second day of the UArctic Assembly 2023 involved decisions about finances, new Thematic Networks, the UArctic Nominations Committee as well as Friends of UArctic. You can read the decisions that were made from here.