2015

IV Youth Festival of National Cultures "We are the one people!"

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

The primary purpose of the festival is to revive and reveal the profound nature of nationalities's culture in Ugra. The Festival starts November, 6 2015.

I International Art Show «Circum-Arctic» in Iceland

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

From 15 to 19 October 2015 in Reykjavik (Iceland) the I International Art Show «Circum-Arctic» takes place. The show is attended by artists, painters, masters of arts and crafts - representatives of the Arctic indigenous peoples from different corners of such countries as Canada, the United States (Alaska), Russia, Finland,...

Laurea UAS master's students in action in Kittilä rescue exercise

Wed, Oct 21, 2015

Staff and students of Laurea University of Applied Sciences took part in the joint international rescue exercise organised by the countries in the Barents region. Laurea's responsibility in the Barents Rescue 2015 exercise in Lapland 28 September – 2 October was to carry out the evaluation of the exercise.

Yakutsk scientists took part in the international seminar "The imagination of the North" in Canada

Wed, Oct 21, 2015

Yakutsk scientists from the Institute of the Humanities and the Indigenous Peoples of the North - Siberian Branch RAS, Arctic State Institute of Arts and Culture and NEFU took part in research trip to Canada from 24 September to 1 October organized by the University of Quebec in Montreal

Visit to the University of the Faroe Islands,- north2north staff mobility report

Tue, Oct 20, 2015

Daniela Tommasini, PhD, from the University of Lapland received financial support from north2north, UArctic mobility and exchange programme for teachers, researchers and students. The support allowed her to visit the University of the Faroe Islands, April 22nd - May 3rd, 2015.

Great example of collaboration in northern tourism - Thematic Network meeting in Alta

Tue, Oct 20, 2015

Seven institutions, representing five countries, met at the UiT-The Arctic University of Norway campus in Alta, from Monday to Wednesday (5th-7th October) to gather ideas on implementation of a future shared masters degree program.

The mammoth skin, found on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island, could be a material to clone mammoth

Tue, Oct 20, 2015

The expedition «North Oykumena» of the North-Eastern Federal University has found unique data that could be used as a material to clone mammoth.

Tomsk scientists dug the remains of the youngest mammoth

Tue, Oct 20, 2015

Paleontologists of Tomsk State University brought unique findings from their expedition to the Novosibirsk region: more than 600 large mammals’ remains of the Late Pleistocene of Northern Eurasia. According to paleontologists, their findings are from 17,000 to 11,000 years old.

Invitation to the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research’s Symposium 2015

Tue, Oct 20, 2015

The Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research (NVP)

The Symposium 2015 - “On, Under and Near the Melting Polar Ice: Human activities, management and the environment” will be held on October 22nd 2015, at the University of Nordland, Bodø.

The 4th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium in Rovaniemi

Mon, Oct 19, 2015

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The China-Nordic Arctic Research Centre (CNARC) invites you to the symposium which will be held in Rovaniemi, Finland, at 6.-9.6.2016. The main theme of the symposium is The Sustainable Arctic - Opportunities and Challenges of Globalization. Save the Date flyer.

Valuing higher education exchange

Mon, Oct 19, 2015

Arrival of the first Indian student to Dresden. He was to study electrical engineering in Dresden Technical University, 19 February 1951.

When the first Indian exchange student arrived in Germany in 1951, he was welcomed by a crowd of people and festive cheer. Flowers, music and an excited crowds embraced the student. Today, this moment is diluted in the crowds of international students, arriving more unnoticed than half a century ago.

H2020-SC1-2016-2017: Personalised Medicine

Mon, Oct 19, 2015

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges will shortly be inviting proposals, under the health, demographic change and wellbeing work programme, for its H2020-CS1-2016-2017 Personalised Medicine Call. The first deadlines for this call are 13 April 2016.

H2020-SFS-2016 Call on Sustainable Food Security – Resilient and Resource-efficient Value Chains

Mon, Oct 19, 2015

The EU Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges will shortly be inviting proposals for its H2020-SFS-2016 call on sustainable food security – resilient and resource-efficient value chains. The call is expected to open on 27 October 2015 and the anticipated closing date of the first stage is 17 February 2016.

H2020-CULT-COOP-2016-2017: Promoting the European public and cultural space

Mon, Oct 19, 2015

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges will shortly be inviting proposals, under the Europe in a changing world work programme, for its H2020-CULT-COOP-2016-2017 understanding Europe: promoting the European public and cultural space call. The call is open now with a deadline in February 2017.

H2020-SEC-2016: Security call

Mon, Oct 19, 2015

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges is now inviting proposals, under the Secure Societies – protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens work programme for its H2020-SEC-2016-2017 Security call. The deadline for this call is 25 August 2016.