UArctic builds and strengthens collective resources and collaborative infrastructure, thereby enabling member institutions to better serve their constituents and their regions.

• UArctic members cooperate with each other on multiple levels, focusing on faculty, institutional leadership and international collaboration.
• UArctic represents its members’ interests internationally by promoting their diverse and shared capacity to serve northern communities and interests.
• With more than 200 member institutions and organizations spanning 24 time zones in the eight Arctic countries and beyond, UArctic is the North’s only truly circumpolar higher education network and one of the world’s largest education and research networks.