UArctic is organizing a UArctic Rectors Meeting hosted by The University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), France, an Associate member of the University of Paris-Saclay, on December 6, 2021 in Versailles, France.

For three decades, Professor Jeffrey Welker, Ph.D., in University Of Alaska Anchorage's Department of Biological Sciences and the inaugural University of the Arctic research chair, has been thinking about, studying and running research programs focused on water and its vital role in the ecological sciences of the North. 

Around the time that we were asked to contribute to a recognition of the Arctic Council’s twenty fifth anniversary and UArctic’s role in that history, we received word that Professor O.W. Heal – Bill to all of his friends – had sadly passed away. If any single individual could be credited for hatching the original idea of the...

Northern (Arctic) Federal University in Arkhangelsk is looking forward to welcoming you at the Online Summer School of the Russian Language and Culture 2021 free of charge on 21 June – 03 July 2021.

Minister Marc Garneau announced on May 20th, on the occasion of the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting, that University Laval will host the Permanent Secretariat of the Sustainable Development Working Group. 

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) announces their upcoming webinar, Draft Arctic Research Plan 2022-2026 Information Session: Focus on Implementation. This webinar will take place 2 June 2021, 10:00-11:00 a.m. AKDT.

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) invites registration for the next Arctic Research Seminar featuring Kaare Sikuaq Erickson, Engagement Manager for UIC Science in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Sikuaq's presentation, titled Ingenious Indigenous Technology and Inuit History, will be held via Zoom on Thursday, 27 March 202...

The report was published in tandem with the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting held in Reykjavík 19. – 20. May. Gender equality has been one of Iceland´s priorities during its Arctic Council Chairmanship 2019-2021, under the theme People and Communities. The report is a part of an international project under the Arctic Counci...

The Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting, took place in Reykjavik on May 19-20, 2021. During the 12th edition, the importance of the University of the Arctic has been acknowledged at multiple times. 

The UArctic Congress was organized 15-18 May online from Reykjavik. The sessions consisted of short presentations and round table discussions between the participants and the audience.

During the Second Meeting of the Assembly of UArctic on Friday 14, 2021, the Assembly of UArctic elected new board members for the three-year term 2021-2024.

The exhibition shows a variety of art-based reflections on taskscapes and temporality of the northern landscapes. Living in the Landscape (LiLa) multidisciplinary spring school is a collaborative development concept of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design (ASAD).

You are invited to submit artworks and/or an abstract for the virtual symposium and exhibition "Relate North 2021: Everyday Extremes".

The online session "Work and Health in the Arctic" was held on 18 May 2021 at the UArctic Congress 2021, and was organized by the UArctic Thematic Network on Working in the Arctic. Session participants exchanged research results in the fields of physiology, psychology and medical support of labor in the Arctic.

The online parallel session took place on 18 May 2021 at the UArctic Congress 2021, and was entitled “The Arctic Contributing Toward WHO Decade of Healthy Ageing 2020–2030”. This focus on Healthy Ageing is part of the priorities of the UArctic Thematic Network on Health and Well-being in the Arctic, Northern Dimension Institu...