Professor Jan Borm, Director of the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ and UArctic Chair in Arctic Humanities, has been appointed Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour ("Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur") on the occasion of French National Day promotion on July 14.

Join the official launch event of the Arctic Yearbook’s Special Volume on Arctic Pandemics: COVID-19 and Other Pandemic Experiences and Lessons Learned. The virtual event is organized on September 7, 2023, 11:00am-12:30pm EST.

The members of the UArctic funded project “One Health in Northern Communities and Ecosystems” met on August 15-16, 2023, for the brainstorming workshop to boost the development of the Master’s level course (10 ECTS) as a main outcome of the project.

Yubao Qiu, a professor of International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS) and his colleague met the UArctic International Secretariat at the Univeristy of Lapland on August 15.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law and the UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and Education are pleased to announce a call for papers for Volume 11 of Current Developments in Arctic Law (2023). The volume will bring together short articles on the special theme Inter-Polar Perspectives: Connecting the Arctic with t...

In conjunction with International Polar Week, the US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) is hosting the seventh annual international Polar Film Festival in September 2023.

The Nansen Professorship in Arctic Studies at the University of Akureyri is awarded for a twelve-month period to a scholar working on issues that bear on the legal, economic, social, political, natural and health circumstances in the Arctic.

Arendal Week (Arendalsuka) is the largest annual political gathering in Norway and is an important arena for stakeholders from policymaking, business, science, and research. It is taking place from August 14-18, 2023, in Arendal, Norway.

The University of Washington invites applications for a postdoctoral scholar focused on understanding the what and why of changes in the Arctic and broader causes and impacts of climate change.

Diana W. Krawczyk, a scientist with the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk, participated in a north2north exchange to attend the 1st MARDI workshop hosted by the University of Helsinki in Finland.

In this video series, the finalists of the 2023 Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award talk about their ideas nominated for the Award. The first video comes from Mary Albert who introduces the project they are working on with Inuit hunter-fishers in Greenland.

25 future Indigenous leaders are coming from Alaska, Canada, Mongolia, Norway, and Sweden to participate in the Arendal Week.

Insulating effect of deeper snow is thawing ancient carbon permafrost reserves

Seminar “Antarctica today – shared challenges for science and environmental protection in the final frontier” was held on May 29, 2023 as a side event of the annual Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting hosted by Finland.

The UArctic ConnectED project created an opportunity for a week of collaboration between the University of Aberdeen and UiT-The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø.