Since the establishment of UArctic Chairs, they have aimed to meet during the Arctic Congress, which was now held in Bodø, Norway. The Arctic Congress was unique this year as it was combined with the International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS) XI, UArctic Congress 2024, and High North Dialogue 2024.

The UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and Education, and lead of the Thematic Network on Arctic Law, Prof. Kamrul Hossain from the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, has been elected to the Council as a member for the next three years, from 2024-2027.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Social Work focuses on three topics with relevance for social work in the Arctic: Indigenous peoples, consequences of climate change and the development of rurality and urbanity. This becomes clear also in the decisions of the network in their physical meeting in Bodø under the Arctic Congress,...

Growing up in the Arctic includes facing many challenges. Among them are developing one’s identity, climate change that threats ways of living, risk of poverty. This session by Thematic Network on Social Work on the Arctic Congress in Bodø, June 1st pointed also at such challenges. But most of all it pointed out the possibili...






UArctic welcomes new Thematic Networks which were approved by the UArctic Assembly in their meeting held on 2-3 June, 2024 in Bodø, Norway.




The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) announces their upcoming IARPC Public Webinar Series event, titled The Unmet Needs of Environmentally Threatened Alaska Native Villages: Assessment and Recommendations (ANTHC). This webinar will take place 10 June 2024, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. AKDT.

Concluding the Arctic Congress 2024 in Bodø, Norway, the UArctic Assembly convened June 2-3, 2024. With participation from nearly 70 member institutions, the 2024 Assembly became the largest UArctic members' meeting so far.