The University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of the Arctic are pleased to announce The Arctic Broadband Forum 2017 to be held in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, May 8-9, 2017. Proposal deadline: November 15, 2016 - Final program will be ready in February 2017.

A Student Ambassador from the second group Ulunnguaq Markussen, University of Greenland, specializing in Social Science, took part in the annual Student Forum in St. Petersburg held within the UArctic Congress 2016 and shared with her views and thoughts on the event and the Arctic issues.

A joint statement from Ministers of the Arctic States on the occasion of the Arctic Council's 20th anniversary. (Source: http://www.arctic-council.org/index.php/en/our-work2/20th-anniversary/416-20th-anniversary-statement-2)

The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our Fellowships and Grants program for the 2017/18 academic year. The deadline for applications is November 1, 2016.

AMAP (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program) has published the first call for papers and pre-registration for its upcoming conference "Bringing Knowledge to Action", 24-27 April, 2017, Reston, Virginia, USA.

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) is looking for new photographs for the publication of the yearbook 2017 and other IASC publications. 

On September 28, the White House will host science ministers and representatives from indigenous groups to reflect on Arctic science, monitoring and data sharing. In their article for Arctic Deeply, Ross A. Virginia and Michael Sfraga offer their view on the advancement of scientific study in the region.

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), in cooperation with the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), invites Early Career Scientists (ECS) to apply for the IASC Fellowship Program 2017.

A new intern from the University of Copenhagen has started his internship at the UArctic International Secretariat at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. 

The activities and outcomes of the UArctic Congress 2016 attracted considerable media attention both nationally in Russia and internationally. Below is an overview of just some of the media articles published in English about the event.

Matthew Pike of Happy Valley-Goose Bay is the Labrador Institute’s first International Indigenous Intern.

When discussing about the future of the Arctic, it's extremely important to support, encourage and involve students and young scientist in the discussion, because they are the future. For this purpose, awards for best student presentations were granted in the closing session of the UArctic Congress 2016. Four book gift cards,...

The exhibition of the Thematic Network on Communicating Arctic Research (also known as SubZero) premiered at the Kuusamo XXI Nature Photo Festival on Sept 9-11, 2016.

St Petersburg University hosts the first-ever UArctic Congress with a specific focus on current issues in the Arctic. How to reduce emissions and why extracting oil, rather than natural gas, poses greater threat to the Arctic – these are a few of the questions discussed by the leading experts from SPbU.

Today, the first ever UArctic Congress, hosted by St. Petersburg University, concluded following a week of science sessions and key meetings of northern academics from across the circumpolar world and beyond. The inaugural UArctic Congress 2016 gathered 450 participants representing 200 institutions from more than 20 countries.