Following their recently renewed partnership agreement, the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) are pleased to confirm that preparatory work has started for a 5th International Polar Year (IPY) in 2032-33.

Trent University, one of the Læra Institute's university sponsors, is delighted to announce the second Scotland Model Arctic Council (SCOTMAC 2), taking place 10-12 March 2023 at Glasgow Caledonian University in the heart of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

Project Enhancing Equity and Inclusion in Education in Circumpolar North (EICN) organised a book launch event in November at the University of Lapland, Finland. The event included a panel discussion on the themes of the book. 

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Department of Geosciences invites applications for a PhD student to join an NSF-funded project examining marine-terrestrial connections on the Bering Land Bridge/Bering Sea over the past approximately 30 thousand years.

Four members of UArctic's leadership participated in the Umeå Arctic Forum, Dec 12-13, 2022, on the occassion of the 10-year anniversary of Umeå University's Arctic Centre.

Welcome to join the Viikki Sustainability Research seminar on Water resource flows in social ecological systems. The event is open for all, no registration needed!

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law is pleased to announce the release of the tenth edition of the Current Developments in Arctic Law (CDAL).

The celebration of the publication of the book entitled: “Decolonizing Futures: Collaborations for New Indigenous Horizons” took place at the University of Uppsala on 9-10 December 2002.

Members of UArctic's leadership and administration met for joint Ma-Mawi and staff meeting in Pyhä, in Finnish Lapland, Dec 4-9, 2022.

Thematic Network on Northern and Arctic Island Studies Research has held three enthusiastic online meetings so far, on December 20, 2021, August 30 and October 6, 2022. Another will be held before Christmas. Membership keeps growing with new members being suggested at each gathering.

FORSA – an organization for research on social work in the Nordic countries, together with the Nordic Association of Schools of Social Work (NASSW) have their common conference in Bodø in Norway, 14th to 16th of June 2023. The conference of course gather researchers from the Nordic countries. But researchers from all of Europ...

The third international and interdisciplinary summer school Living in the Landscape (LiLa) took place in spring 2022. The series of summer schools is organized by University of Lapland and the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Art and Design (ASAD).

During May 2022, Edda Óskarsdóttir (Associate Professor, University of Iceland) and Hermína Gunnþórsdóttir (Associate Professor, University of Akureyri) traveled to Scotland to visit Liz Curtis and Kirsten Darling-McQuistan, Teacher Educators at the University of Aberdeen, to discuss how inclusive education is understood and...

The environmental council of the University of Akureyri announces the date for the 3rd sustainability conference at the University of Akureyri on 31.03.23, and call for abstracts.

The book "Education, Equity and Inclusion - Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable North" launch event was celebrated on Monday 21st November 2022 at the University of Lapland and on Friday 25th November 2022 at Finnish Educational Research Association Conference in Oulu, Finland.