European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Application deadline: 09 February 2017.

The Winter Cities Shake-Up 2017 advance program is now available online.

Barents Cooperation Forum offers the latest information on the development activities and funding opportunities within the region. The registration and bilateral meetings booking are open until 2.12.2016. The event is held on 8.12.2016

Barents funding portal provides both an overview of the existing financing sources as well as up-to-date information on the on-going open calls relevant for financing of Barents projects.

Sigrid Jusélius Foundation grant for foreign medical researchers. Closing date for grant applications is November 30th 2016.

Grants for environmental and waste management research. Application time runs from 11th October until 30th November 2016.

The Company of Biologists uses the surplus it generates for the benefit of biology and the biological community. We support and encourage the sharing of knowledge across the biological community.

Tekes's "Smart, Green and Sustainable Growth" call for applications is directed at joint projects between companies and research organisations, as well as research organisations' multidisciplinary public research projects networked with companies, grouped around the themes of the bio- and circular economy, energy and cleantec...

10-11 November 2016, Northern (Arctic) Federal University (Russia, Arkhangelsk) held a seminar on project management in the framework of UArctic Days organized by the University of the Arctic Research Office.

The biannual Arctic conference “Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit” will be held next time on 14–16 November 2017 in Lappia Hall, Hallituskatu 11, 96100 Rovaniemi.

The organizers of POLAR2018 are accepting session proposals for the joint SCAR and IASC Open Science Conference “Where the Poles meet“, which will be held on 19-23 June 2018 in Davos, Switzerland.

Three travel grants available for a multi-disciplinary workshop at the 2017 Ninth International Congress on Arctic Social Sciences in Umeå, Sweden for early career scientists and traditional indigenous knowledge holders. Complete applications should be sent to by December 14th 2016.

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) has announced the second call for the International Conference on Arctic Science: Bringing Knowledge to Action April 24-27, 2017 Reston, Virginia, USA.The deadline for abstracts submission has been prolonged to December 1, 2016.

On November 6, representatives of three UArctic member institutions met in Yakutsk, Russia.

Karol Kowalski from the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi (Finland) took part in the north2north visit at the Aarhus University in Denmark.