The workshop "Circumpolar Innovation: Making Science and Technology Work for the North" will take place in Yukon College, Canada, November 26-28. This event is organized by the members of UArctic Thematic Network Commercialization of Science and Technology for the North.

The Post-graduate summer school "Change and Continuation in the Arctic" - An interdisciplinary summer school of the humanities and social sciences was held in Aalborg 12-15 August, 2015 at Aalborg University.

September 23, the Forum on road safety in the Barents region started in Syktyvkar. In the frame of the Forum, a meeting of the road administrations directors from Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia (Komi, Karelia, Arkhangelsk region) was held. Representatives of Russian federal agencies also participated in the Forum....

Five events held in the Far Eastern Federal University in 2015 became winners of the regional stage of Russian Event Awards.

Scientists and students of Siberian Federal University took part in the VII International Congress and Exhibition "Non-Ferrous Metals and Minerals - 2015", which took place in Krasnoyarsk 14-17 September 2015.

The Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme 2014-2020 has now launched their new web pages, where information about programme priorities and upcoming calls can be found.

Thanks to a research project of the UArctic Thematic Network on Permafrost, students in Siberia get hands-on scientific experience through permafrost monitoring. Kenji Yoshikawa, lead of the Thematic Network, explains in his Shared Voices 2015 article how the project has been evolving.

The Institute of Economics of Karelian Research Centre of RAS with the Government of the Republic of Karelia organize the 7th Youth Economic Forum “New Economy – New Opportunities” in Petrozavodsk (Russia) in November 12-13, 2015.

Arctic renewable energy is underrepresented in our mindsets. Yet, ideas move sometimes faster than we expect. The US Chairmanship of the Arctic Council chose Arctic renewable energy as its focal point. 

The technology developed in the Biological institute, Tomsk State University, allows to clean the bottom of water bodies polluted with oil and save their ecosystems.

Canadian Political Science Students’ Association invite you to attend the 20th annual CPSSA National Conference, held at the University of Victoria from January 27th to the 31st, 2016. This conference is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. The focal theme for the conference will be Sovereignty.

Lassi Heininen, professor of Arctic Politics and the leader of the UArctic Geopolitics and Security Thematic Network will be honored with the degree of the Doctor Honoris Causa of Petrozavodsk State University.

Northern (Arctic) Federal University hosted the conference "Ensuring Safety and Sustainable Development in the Arctic Region, Preservation of Ecosystems and Traditional Way of Life of the Indigenous Peoples of the North".

EUROFACULTY PSKOV project is aiming at upgrading university education in the field of business administration and business economics.

"True people" (Nenei nenecha) is the self-name of Nenets, the indigenous people of the Yamal peninsula (Russia), and the name of the complex 2015–2016 ethnographic expedition. Project participants will become part of the reindeer herders' family during the whole year just to “dive” in the casual life of Arctic nomads in XXI c...