Thematic Networks and Institutes

This month

• Release of the Current Developments in Arctic Law, Volume 13
• Open educational resources on innovative Arctic art education now available on a new website
• Call for Abstracts for the Session "Sustainable Solid Waste Management in the Arctic: Governance, Innovation, and Local Solutions"
• Building Stronger Arctic Health Networks: Meeting in Nuuk
• New publication of Arctic Yearbook, "War and Peace in the Arctic"
• "Relate North: Lessons of the Land" Now Published
• November Highlights from UArctic Thematic Networks

November

• Arctic WASH Outreach Events in Nuuk and Sisimiut, Greenland: Preventing Plastic Pollution in the Ocean
• WASH - Water/Sanitation/Hygiene Winter School 2026 - Nunavik, QC, Canada
• Healthy Ageing in the Nordic region: highlights from the meeting of scholars in Copenhagen in 25-26 November 2025
• AMAUTI Podcast: Pearls of Wisdom
• Why Choose Circumpolar Studies? - Join Læra Institute for Circumpolar Studies Sessions
• Inter-Polar Conference 2025 Report Published
• Call for Abstracts for the Session "Occupational Safety and Health in the Arctic: Building climate resilience for workers and communities" at the UArctic Congress 2026
• Call for Submissions: Verdde Network Announces First Indigenous Educators of the Arctic Conference
• Project Successfully Developed Living in the Landscape (LiLa) Summer School Model
• Student Story: PhD One Health course and the NUNAMED Conference
• Student story: One Health in the Arctic PhD Course and NUNAMED 2025
• COIL@UArctic lead partner Robert Gordon University signs a Minute of Understanding with UNITAR
• UArctic Chair Jan Borm participated in the Science Diplomacy Forum in Istanbul
• Collaborations and Joint Initiatives Presented at the FERA Conference 2025
• COIL@UArctic Network has secured RGU Impact Accelerator Fund
• Lessons of the Land: Online art exhibition
• Wednesday at the museum - A concept of experiencing the museum at night
• Reclaiming Science for Peace: Towards a Just and Interdependent Planetary Future
• UNICollaboration in conversation with COIL@UArctic
• Learn to run a COIL project - COIL@UArctic Thematic Network’s Masterclass Series
• One Health PhD Course Bringing Students Together
• Call for Abstracts: Rain-on-snow Session at EGU General Assembly 2026
• The "Observation of Change" Exhibition at Havremagasinet in Boden, Sweden
• October Highlights from UArctic Thematic Networks
• Thematic Network Success Story: "A Holistic Picture by Combining Geopolitics and Security (Studies), and Implementing a Dialogue – the first 15 years of UArctic TN on Geopolitics and Security"

October

• north2north exchange story: Jannie Olsen's experience in Greenland
• Arctic Future Pathfinders: A transformative journey through the Arctic
• Research Day 2025 Arctic University Museum in Tromsø, Norway
• The 18th Polar Law Symposium held in Nuuk, Greenland, on 22-24 October 2025
• Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design Welcomes You to the 13th Relate North Symposium
• UArctic Chair Kamrul Hossain at the Arctic Circle Assembly 2025!
• 12th NUNAMED (October 2025) – A Meeting Platform for UArctic TN Health Researchers and Professionals
• Mapping response-able relationality with the Arctic Ice
• Embedding Gendered Data in Arctic Policy and Decision-Making
• Gender and Disaggregated Data in the Arctic Region
• New research project on Place-based Tourism Strategy Evaluation in the North Atlantic
• Thematic Networks leaders held a successful meeting in Akureyri, Iceland
• ScaliFar 2026 - A Scalidophora PhD and Master’s course in the Faroe Islands
• UArctic at the 2025 Arctic Circle Assembly
• New Publication: Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries: Rights, Processes, and Tensions
• Join the first interdisciplinary and community-oriented master's course: Permafrost in Arctic Societies
• Publication: "Investigating the extent and quality of health-focused climate adaptation planning: Insights from Western Canadian communities"
• Laera Institute's Survey of Arctic, Northern, and Circumpolar Studies Programmes & Curriculum
• Recent study highlights cold exposure risks for Arctic outdoor workers
• New Publication from the Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning: Adapting to Environmental Hazards in Norway
• Art-Science cooperation exhibition DUST FOREST held in London
• UArctic goes to Climate Week NYC, 2025

September

• UArctic Northern Tourism Program Survey
• Launch of the Thematic Networks Monthly Highlights
• Thematic Network Success Story: "More than two decades of impactful collaboration on Circumpolar health"
• Fall Climate Café
• Circumpolar snow crab fisheries
• Networking for increasing sustainability in snow crab fisheries in the Arctic
• UArctic project workshop held onboard RV Helmer Hanssen
• Imagining Possible Futures: Relate North 10 Connected Northern and Indigenous Communities Through Art
• AliVE: Age-inclusive Lifelong Learning
• Climate change and healthy AgeinG: co-creating E-learning for resilience and adaptation (chAnGE)
• Living with Land and People: A Handbook for Artistic Project and Art-based Action Research in the Arctic
• Thematic Network on Northern and Arctic Island Studies Research Leads Discussion on Northern Islands' Future
• Publication: Staying With the Trouble, a Rhizomatic Approach to Posthuman Methods: Assemblages and Becoming in the Posthuman Walking Project
• Strengthening Arctic Emergency Management: the 2025 Conference Report is out
• Join the 2025–2026 COIL Cohort: A Global Collaboration on Mental Health
• Professor Roland Kallenborn Highlights Local Arctic Pollutants in AMAP Webinar
• Youth Voices Gather at International Climate Café
• UArctic Science Diplomacy Thematic Network Session at Tsukuba Conference 2025: Co-Creation of Knowledge in Ocean Literacy
• NIEM Marks 40 Years with Seminar on Arctic Law and Indigenous Rights
• Call for collaborations: The Embassy of Reindeers
• Rising Tides: Youth Action for Ocean and Climate Resilience
• TExNet Workshop held in Nuuk to initiate first dataset analysis
• Transforming global biodiversity policy into local practice
• Seminar: Entrepreneurship for a Changing Arctic - Ecosystems, Migration & Sustainability
• The Second Inter-Polar Conference 2025 held successfully
• New Italian intern joins the UArctic Thematic Networks Office in Oulu
• Thematic Network on Social Work at the IFSW European Social Work Conference 2025
• Study visit to Sweden and important milestones for the Student Barents Rescue Exercise: Wildland Fires
• Call for Participation: Multi-Disciplinary Arctic Sea Ice Research Workshop
• The Second Inter-Polar Conference Connecting the Arctic with the Third Pole begins in Kathmandu

August

• Social Work Webinar Series
• Thematic Network on Arctic Transport and Logistics at Arendalsuka
• Thematic Network on Social Work Newsletter 1/2025 now available
• Article "The status of domestic wastewater treatment in the Arctic" now available
• Students Traveled Thousands of Miles to Learn Arctic Business Firsthand
• UArctic Chair Kamrul Hossain taught at the CCCI PhD Summer School in Oslo, Norway
• Reminder: UArctic Entrepreneurship Fund 2025 call for applications
• Call for Papers: Current Developments in Arctic Law, Volume 13, 2025
• Catherine Chambers appointed Director of University Centre of the Westfjords
• UArctic at the 2025 Arctic Encounter Symposium hosted in Anchorage, Alaska
• Call for Submissions: Online Art Exhibition – Relate North 2025

July

• Emerging priorities in terrestrial herbivory research in the Arctic
• Recent Centre for Climate Repair Conference Featured in The Guardian
• Extended Deadline: Call for Proposals: Relate North 2025
• Collaborative Indigenous Education Project Strengthens Northern Capacity Across the Circumpolar North
• New Interreg project: ArcticSewlutions
• Master’s Theses on WASH in Greenlandic Settlement Housing
• Read now: Poop and wet wipes that don’t dissolve engaged children in Svalbard
• Erasmus+ BIP: Knowledge from the Arctic in past and present
• New book: L'autochtonie comparée des Amériques. Droit et représentations culturelles
• Article: Why history matters to planning: Climate change, colonialism & maladaptation
• Article: Factors contributing to climate adaptation lag in practice: Insights from local and territorial government interactions
• Read now: Antarctic research is in decline, and the timing couldn’t be worse
• Master's Course Offering: "Permafrost in Arctic Societies" in April-May 2026
• Save the Date: Calotte Academy travelling symposium — November 10-15, 2025

June

• Call for Applications: 2025 UArctic Entrepreneurship Fund
• Seminar "Asia and the Arctic: Encounters and Entanglements"
• The Sixth Living in the Landscape Summer School in Nesna, Norway
• Tackling the problem of the seasonality in the North
• Three EU Projects Convene Joint One Health Session at International AIS2025 Conference
• 20th Anniversary of Arctic Health Network Featured at UArctic Assembly in Inari
• Call for Proposals: Related North 2025
• UArctic Welcomes New Thematic Networks
• UArctic Assembly 2025 - Day 3: Key Decisions
• UArctic Assembly 2025 has kicked off
• Observation of Change Art and Science Exhibition
• Thematic Networks Success Story: "Supporting local resilience through education, collaboration and research dissemination"

May

• Roland Kallenborn new scientific coordinator for ArcSolution
• Using Languages as a Tool to Promote Place Attachment Development Amongst Tourists
• Arctic Art and Design Education Exhibition Showcased at International Design Week 2025 in Graz, Austria
• Research cruise "HHUMTKT25" on R/V Helmer Hanssen successfully completed
• A session organized by the UArctic Chair and the Law Thematic Network at the Arctic Circle India Forum
• Trent University’s Heather Nicol Leads UArctic-Funded Project to Enhance Circumpolar Studies Curriculum
• A Panel Session at the Arctic Spirit Conference by the UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and Education
• Critical Arctic Studies Webinar Series "Art/Place"
• UArctic Chair Kamrul Hossain spoke at a high-level panel at the Arctic Circle India Forum
• UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Migration Announces Forthcoming Book
• Arctic Art Education Camped in Narsaq, Greenland
• From the Floe Edge: Inuit Art, Sea Ice, and Climate Knowledge in Kinngait
• Enhancing synergies and collaboration for sustainable Arctic wastewater management
• Sewage management in cold and sparsely populated regions: Solutions for the Arctic
• UArctic at Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit Conference 2025: Day 3
• Art Education Exhibition Celebrates Arctic Communities and Collaboration
• UArctic at Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit Conference 2025: Day 2
• "Poroissa" photograph exhibition by Mari Parpala at the University of West of Scotland
• Putting Maternal and Child Health on the Arctic Research Agenda
• Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit Conference 2025 has begun
• Thematic Networks Success Story: "The past has shown that safety, climate and environment have revolved around High Latitude Dust"
• Call for Abstracts: Nordic Gender Conference on Men's Underrepresentation in Communal Occupations

April

• Integrating Arctic Cultural Environments in the Classroom
• Open application to ArcSolution summer school
• Exploring Intersections of Ageing and Climate Change at International Panel Discussion
• Call for Abstracts: Arctic Telecommunications Infrastructure: Past, Present and Future
• UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Transport and Logistics at the Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit Conference 2025
• Call for Chapters: The Arctic's New Geopolitics – BRICS+ Policies and Investments
• Read Now: AASCO White Paper
• UArctic Internship Opportunities – Fall 2025
• Next-Generation Science Diplomats advance IPY-5 dialogues at Arctic Science Summit Week 2025
• Official website of the Polar Law Symposium and the Yearbook Launched
• Call for papers: Critical Arctic Studies Symposium

March

• Global Glacier Preservation and Fifth International Polar Year (IPY-5) 2032-2033
• PEEX Arctic-Boreal Hub Newsletter Issue #31 available
• Webinar: Resilient Connectivity for Remote Regions
• Witness: Arctic Indigenous Voices - Five Powerful Stories from the Frontlines of Climate Change
• Seminar: "Exploring Climate Adaptation in Northern Communities"
• The Glacier Stewardship Program – an international team responding to the global loss of glaciers
• Introducing new UArctic Chair Sylvia Moore
• Seminar: "Visualizing the Landscape of Tribal Communities: A Context for Working in Rural Alaska"
• Webinar announcement: First World Day for Glaciers: Planning Toward the 5th International Polar Year 2032-2033
• Student Polar Winter School 2025 Report: Wahdan Achmad Syaehuddin
• Science Diplomacy and the Oldest Continuous Climate Research Program Created by Humanity
• New Book: Responsible Tourism Best Practices in the Nordic Countries

February

• Thematic Networks Success Story: "Yarns and Yarns: Intertwining Communities across the North Atlantic"
• Send your abstract now: Arctic Yearbook 2025 - War and Peace in the Arctic
• Article on "Asia-Arctic Cooperation and Japan’s Arctic Engagement" published
• UArctic Internship Opportunity – Spring 2025
• Apply for PhD course "The Role of Stakeholders as a Regulatory Force for Sustainable Natural Resource Usage"
• Registration open for a multidisciplinary, postgraduate 10 ECTS course on One Health in Northern Communities and Ecosystems
• AASCO Summit in Monaco advances international collaboration on critical Arctic research and data sharing
• Seminar: "Global Challenges, Local Struggles: Dissecting Arctic climate change and Indigenous Peoples adaptation in Nunatsiavut"
• A transdisciplinary, comparative analysis reveals key risks from Arctic permafrost thaw
• Winners of the 2024 UArctic Entrepreneurship Fund
• Thematic Networks Success Story: "DALAM Network Educates about Decolonization of Metadata"

January

• Local planning for climate induced relocation: A systematic review
• Critical Arctic Studies CAS Research Clinic
• New Arctic Indigenous Cinema degree program announced at ULapland
• EduPermaGR Project to Develop Permafrost Education in Greenland
• PermaIntern and SEDNA projects presented at the "Arctic Change 2024" international conference
• In-situ Snow Data Inventory for Arctic and Antarctic regions
• 9th High Latitude Dust Workshop 2025
• Thematic Network on Arctic Cultures and History held its international workshop "Aurora borealis - observations, descriptions and visualisations" in Versailles
• The Witness Film Series World Premiere at Skábmagovat 2025
• Arctic Tectonics and Volcanism: a multi-scale, multi-disciplinary educational approach
• The Sustainability Portrait Project – Art, location, and social responsibility for sustainable development in the Arctic
• Polar Winter School on snow measurements and Arctic air pollution
• Introducing new UArctic Chair Maria Huhmarniemi
• Online course: Gender Equality as a Diverse Phenomenon
• Call for Abstracts: The Second Inter-Polar Conference: Connecting the Arctic with the Third Pole HKH (2025)
• Lessons of the Land: New Genre Arctic Art and Land-Based Learning Advances Sustainability and Collaboration
• Flatworms thrive at the public beaches of Tromsø – but how do they spread across the Arctic?
• ASAD network: New Genre Art Education in the Arctic project carried out successfully