The UArctic Entrepreneurship Fund (UEF), an initiative of the Managing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the North Thematic Network, supports innovative, community-focused business ideas that drive sustainable development in the Arctic.

After five months, Laura Ditto, the American Arctic Connection Intern, wraps up her internship in Rovaniemi, Finland and leaves us with some final thoughts.

The second Thematic Networks Success Story is from the Thematic Network on Decolonization of Arctic Library and Archives Metadata (DALAM).

A recently launched website, "the UArctic library of climate interventions", will serve as a comprehensive knowledge base with expert reviews of potential climate solutions, providing information on their feasibility, risks, and potential benefits, while remaining neutral on whether they should be implemented.

The following is Anna-Pauliina Kokko's Autumn 2024 student mobility story, who went on exchange from Tampere University to UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

The Arctic Research Center (ARC) at Hokkaido University (HU) invites registration for the First Asia Arctic Conference (AAC) of the Asia-Arctic Network for Research and Education (AANRE). This hybrid conference will take place 13-14 February 2025 at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan and online.

Angel Ellis and US Embassy visit Rovaniemi and the University of Lapland (ULapland) to tour university studios, talk with university professors and students, and air the American Film Showcase (AFS) film BAD PRESS.

Recently, Nicole Bonnett and S. Jeff Birchall  from the University of Alberta (Canada), and the UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience, published "Local planning for climate induced relocation: A systematic review", with the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

Professor Tiina Ikäheimo from UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, has been appointed as the UArctic Chair in Arctic Climate and Occupational Health for the next five years

The call for papers is now open, and abstracts are being accepted until February 1 on the theme "Canada: Spaces of Change." Canadian Studies Center director Nadine Fabbi, of University of Washington, is chairing the section on North and Arctic Studies and hopes you will consider submitting an abstract!

The third UArctic CAS research clinic will be held online on Tuesday 11 March 2025, at 17.00-20.00 Finnish time EET (Eastern European Time, UTC + 2).

The University of Lapland's new 2-year Arctic Indigenous Cinema M.A. program was unveiled yesterday during a panel discussion at Skábmagovat Film Festival.

The Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) Arctic Observing Technologies Working Group announces several funding opportunities. Priority will be given to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Early Career Researchers. The application deadline is January31, 2025.

The project EduPermaGR of the UArctic Thematic Network on Permafrost aims to develop interdisciplinary higher education on permafrost in collaboration with a Greenlandic community.

"What do you think we will find in here?" I ask Svein as we stand outside an 18th-century naval arsenal in East London that houses the archive of Lloyd’s Register Foundation. Svein Buvik served as a Captain in the Norwegian Navy, patrolling Northern Norway's coastline in the 1990s, and has joined me on this visit. “Untold Arc...