2026 UArctic Shared Voices Magazine published

In the 2026 issue, you will find stories about the 20 years of impactful collaboration on health and well-being, marine heatwaves and their effects on Arctic shipping, learning on the land and with community, strengthening the Arctic voice in Europe, increasing sustainability in Arctic snow crab fisheries, and many others. 

You can read Shared Voices 2026 online as individual articles, or download the entire magazine as a PDF. Print copies will also be available at the UArctic Congress 2026, held in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands on May 26-29. 

Table of Contents

• Letter from the President
  Lars Kullerud
  
  
• Editorial
  Outi Snellman
  
  
• UArctic Focus Areas: Working Together for the Future of the Arctic
  Jouko Niinimäki
  
  
• The Need to Intensify Search and Rescue Cooperation in the Arctic
  Dimitrios Dalaklis
  
  
• Once the Arctic, Always the Arctic
  Laura Ditto
  
  
• UArctic Thematic Network on Health and Well-being in the Arctic – Impactful Collaboration for 20 Years
  Anna Reetta Rönkä, Anastasia Emelyanova, Christine Ingemann and Gert Mulvad
  
  
• Naapinneq: Strengthening Inuit Maternal and Child Health Through Gathering Inuit from Kalaallit Nunaat and Nunavut
  Christine Ingemann and Ingelise Olesen
  
  
• Strengthening Circumpolar Network in Arctic Health Research Through Mentorship, Education and Research Activities
  Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen
  
  
• Navigating the "New Normal": Marine Heatwaves and the Future of Arctic Shipping
  Bahareh Kamranzad
  
  
• Learning on the Land and with Community – Reshaping Circumpolar Education
  Sylvia Moore
  
  
• Strengthening the Arctic Voice in Europe: The Arctic Six Step Up Their EU Engagement
  Linda Solstrand Dahlberg and Dag Avango
  
  
• Sharing Knowledge, Sharing Responsibility: The Nan guk’anàatii ejuk t’igwinjik (The Land We Are Taking Care of Is Changing) Project
  Kristi Benson, Sharon Snowshoe, Arlyn Charlie, Trevor Lantz and Tracy Proverbs
  
  
• Networking for Increasing Sustainability in Snow Crab Fisheries in the Arctic
  Kristine Cerbule and Roger B. Larsen
  
  
• Reaching Out for History, the Arts and Everyday Life in the Arctic Region
  Bergur Djurhuus Hansen
  
  
• Unlocking Svalbard’s Deep-time Climate Archives Through SvalCLIME
  Kim Senger, Grace Shephard, Morgan Jones, Sten-Andreas Grundvåg, William J Foster, Valentin Zuchuat, Denise Kulhanek, Aleksandra Smyrak-Sikora and Sverre Planke
  
  
• Duodji and Ilusivut (Arts and Crafts) as Pedagogy in the Circumpolar North
  Sylvia Moore
  
  
• Facilitating Collaborative Online International Learning from Kathmandu to Nuuk
  Izzy Crawford and Elina Oksanen
  
  
• Take a Chance on the North
  Miriam Jauhiainen

Cover: Caoimhe Cunningham, "UArctic at 25" anniversary design

This magazine has been made possible with financial support from the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science. 

Shared Voices is UArctic's annual magazine, highlighting our activities, our members, and broader issues in the Circumpolar North.