Researchers involved in UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Marine Biodiversity, and the Nansen Legacy project have identified the first-ever loriciferan in Norwegian waters. This find was made in the Barents Sea at coordinates 81.53N and 30.96E, at a depth of 806 meters.

Maria Fedina, a PhD student from the University of Helsinki, shares her unique experiences and insights from the Arctic Congress Bodø 2024. 

Organizers invite registration and abstracts for the 3rd QuIESCENT Arctic Workshop. This hybrid workshop will take place 22-24 October 2024 in Lausanne, Switzerland and online.

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) and the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) Collaborations invite registration for a workshop series, entitled How to Write a One-Pager. This workshop is open to polar early career scientists and will be run in two parts.

The exhibition "New Genre Arctic Art and Art Education" was hosted at the Stormen Concert Hall from May 28 to June 1, in collaboration with the UArctic Thematic Networks on Arctic Sustainable Art and Design (ASAD) and Children of Arctic. The exhibition featured artwork from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Greenland, Denmark, Scotlan...

The University of the Arctic – UArctic – was announced with the vision of “shared voices” in 1998 by the Arctic governments and the Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic. 

The Centre for Public Health in Greenland at the University of Southern Denmark in Copenhagen hosted a network meeting on 26-28th of May, 2024, focusing on strengthening networks in Arctic health research and education through mentorship and collaboration. The event was organized by the Thematic Network for Health and Well-be...

The U.S. National Science Foundation announces their upcoming live event, Live from the Arctic: Unlocking Earth's Environmental History. This event will take place 27 June 2024 at 9:00 a.m. Alaska Daylight Time.

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...

The KOPRI Arctic Fellowship is open to early-career scientists from Arctic countries and researchers of Arctic indigenous heritage who wish to visit and conduct research at KOPRI for up to 3 months. 

A public seminar was held on Sovereignty, History and Archives at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) on 2nd May 2024. Recording of the seminar is now available.

The NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory invites applications for a Research Physical Scientist in coupled ocean-ice-land atmosphere modelling. This permanent position will be located in Boulder, Colorado.