UArctic Membership Fee

The UArctic annual membership fee for 2011 is Euro 500€.

With reference to the decision taken by the Council of UArctic in Kiruna, Sweden in August 2009 (Annex 1) to introduce a membership fee, and the subsequent approval of implementation procedures by the UArctic Board in December 2009 (Annex 2), an annual UArctic membership fee has been set at Euro500€.

Invoices for the collection of membership fees were sent directly to members in April, 2011. Reasonably, in order to reduce the cost of handling and lessen the workload of collecting fees each and every year, members were kindly asked to consider paying fees for a two-year period (Euro 1,000€).

In settling the membership fee, the following options are available to members:

  • Included in each invoice are payment details for making an international / cross-border bank transaction. Note1: Additional details are often required for international / cross-border bank transactions, see details below. Note2: it is not recommended to make payment by personal or company cheque, as this will involve considerable delays and surcharges.
  • It is also possible to make payments using a Visa, EuroCard or MasterCard credit card. If this payment option is preferred, then please let us know and we will forward the necessary payment authorisation document.
  • This year’s Council of the UArctic meeting will be held in Finnish Lapland from the 6th to the 10th of June 2011, during which time cash and credit card payments will be handled by the International Secretariat.
  • Also, in accordance with the above mentioned decisions, UArctic member institutions or organisations unable to pay the annual membership fee may request a full or partial waiver. For this, members are requested to submit a formal written request to the UArctic International Secretariat, for the full or partial waiving (i.e. payment reduction or exemption) of the annual membership fee. A waiver request template document is availalble here for download. 


Additional information details for international / cross-border bank transfers:

Account holder information: University of Lapland, Yliopistonkatu 8, FI-96101 Rovaniemi, Finland. 

Bank address: Nordea Bank Finland Plc, Aleksanterinkatu 36, FI-00020 Nordea, Finland.

Account reference: Int'l account # / IBAN FI5917383000001470; SWIFT code: NDEAFIHH    



Contacts:

For assistance with payments and waiver requests:                

Pierre-André Forest 
International Planner
UArctic International Secretariat 
Tel. +358 400 573 712 
E-mail: Pierre-andre.forest@uarctic.org