Last month the Thematic Network on Collaborative Online International Learning and Biodiversity Education across the Arctic Circle (COIL@UArctic) held their inaugural event - the first in the bi-monthly workshop programme on Collaborative Online International Learning in the Arctic.

Dr. Paddy Sullivan, director of the Environment and Natural Resource Institute at the University of Alaska Anchorage, recently teamed up with researchers from Alaska Pacific University and Amherst College on a study funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the journal Science.

The U.S. National Science Foundation invites applications for an Interdisciplinary (Program Director) position for the Arctic Natural Sciences Program within the Directorate for Geosciences (GEO), Office of Polar Programs (OPP). This full-time, permanent position will be located in Alexandria, Virginia.

The event was held for the first time in Kuopio campus, March 12-14, 2024, and in Joensuu campus, March 19-21, 2024. The Sustainability Days aimed to provide an opportunity to explore UEF’s sustainability expertise across various disciplines and fields of study.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and NordForsk, the science funding body of the Nordic Council of Ministers, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Research Cooperation. The MOU provides an overarching framework to encourage collaboration among U.S., Nordic, and Canadian research communities and sets out...

The Government of Canada is joining NordForsk’s international research initiative on Sustainable Development of the Arctic with research funding organizations from Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the United States. 

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) invites registration for the next Arctic Research Seminar featuring Christopher Marianetti (Found Sound Nation) and Yaari Walker (Alaska Pacific University). The presentation, titled Sounds of Beringia, will be held via Zoom on Thursday, 28 March 2024 at 9:00 a.m. AKDT (1:00...

This inaugural Nansen lecture for Dr. Romain Chuffart will discuss the role of justice in the evolution of Polar Law both as an academic field and as a practical objective in the addressing the current governance crises. The event will take place at the university of Akureyri, Iceland, on April 8, 2024 at 13:30-14:30 (UTC+0)....

This was a concluding Nansen lecture for Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen as he discuss the place of science diplomacy in navigating changes to international and Arctic order. The lecture was held on February 12, 2024 at the Univesity of Akureyri.

Rashtriya Raksha University shares its experience on the first International Workshop on India’s Polar Region Policy Towards Building Partnerships for Sustainable Development that was held on 12th and 13th March 2024.

The “Connecting Communities” project is exploring the feasibility of connecting Polar Educators, Early Career Researchers, and Arctic Indigenous representatives at "PEI2025 - Building Polar Bridges: Exchange, Inspire, Collaborate" in support of the 4th International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV).

A new EU research infrastructure project POLARIN in the polar regions, coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, has started in the beginning of March. 

Prof. Alun Hubbard will become the new Director of the Thule Institute at the University of Oulu from 1 July, 2024. The Thule Institute coordinates and promotes the University's broad and multidisciplinary Arctic and Polar activities, research, faculties, and the Arctic Research Network, and hosts the UArctic Thematic Network...

This paper explores tourism development in Greenland using connectivity as a prism to explore the emerging challenges and opportunities brought about by vast distances and limited and costly accessibility.

Open access edited volume: Mobilities on the Margins: Creative Processes of Place-Making, edited by Björn Thorsteinsson, Katrín Anna Lund, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson and Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir.