Calotte Academy 2026: Intelligence
The 2026 Academy, with the theme “Intelligence”, is taking place from 8 to 14 June 2026 in the European Arctic, including sessions in Rovaniemi, Kiruna, Tromsø, Enontekiö, Kautokeino, Inari, and Sodankylä—through Sápmi, the northernmost parts of Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
The theme “Intelligence” is inspired from the recent resurgence of the term in particular in the context of the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) or within debates on military intelligence amid increasing geopolitical tension. Yet, the term intelligence is associated with numerous meanings including information or knowledge, cognitive ability, military or espionage, computational intelligence and machine learning, or that of agencies that gather or process secret information. Furthermore, different fields of intelligence may intersect such as the use of AI in data processing within military intelligence.
The Calotte Academy is an annual traveling symposium and international forum in Europe’s North Calotte region, designed to promote interdisciplinary discourse and implement the interplay between senior and young researchers to train and supervise early-career scientists in circumpolar Arctic studies. It is a “school of dialogue” and participatory by nature with an idea to share knowledge and experiences with communities, and foster academic and policy-oriented dialogue among members of the research community and a wide range of other northern stakeholders. It is also an interdisciplinary brainstorming meeting to bring researchers and other experts from different fields, regions and countries together to discover and implement new methods and applications.
The Calotte Academy is for established researchers and early-career scientists (ECS), particularly PhD candidates and post-docs, with different academic and/or knowledge backgrounds to participate and present their work in the 2026 Calotte Academy.
The Calotte Academy 2026 is co-organized by the UArctic TN on Geopolitics and Security and the Northern Policy Society (Finland), in cooperation with (in alphabetic order) Arctic Portal (Iceland); the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University; the ETS Institute at Luleå Technical University (Sweden); the Faculty of Law at the University of Lapland (Finland); the International Center for Reindeer Herding Husbandry (EALÁT) (Norway); Trent University (Ontario, Canada); and the VERA Centre of Russian and Border Studies at the University of Eastern Finland (Finland).
Read more about the symposium: Calotte Academy 2026 - Programme