24 March 2020 An interview with epidemiologist Dr. Anders Koch  

At a time when the COVID-19 outbreak means considerable disruptions to the educational operations of our members and more and more teaching moves online, UArctic and its partners are working to collect openly available learning resources to be used as needed by the circumpolar higher education community.

Here is on-site video from Arctic Alaska in a very snowy March 2020, shared by UArctic Research Chair, Professor Jeff Welker (University of Oulu & University of Alaska Anchorage)  

The Organizing Committee regrets to announce that the Arctic Days in St. Petersburg–2020: International Scientific Cooperation in the Arctic in the Era on Climate Change planned for May 13­–14, 2020, have been postponed due to the rapidly changing situation around COVID-19 pandemic.

Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) is inviting the Asian Arctic research community to participate in its 2020 Arctic expedition. The cruise for the 2020 field season will be conducted aboard IBRV Araon, and consist of four legs covering different areas of the Arctic Ocean.

The webinar will be held by two PhD students, Louise Andersen and Ivalu Mathiesen, from University of Greenland.

The ASSW2020 Online full Calendar, Meeting List, and overview have been updated! The updated Science for a Sustainable Arctic and Arctic Observing Summit programs will be posted soon.

The effects of COVID-19 pandemic have struck hard around the circumpolar North, also in higher education. This has had, and will have consequences for the 27 students who have received a north2north scholarship to travel abroad during this semester

University of Oulu published a new Gender Equality and Diversity action plan—a GEP for years 2019–2022, which is the seventh in order. The first one was drafted already in 1997. The brochure recaps the current tasks of the gender equality work at the university and it is published today—the national Day of Equality, March 19th.

From kindergartens to universities, schools across the Arctic are going virtual to slow the spread of the corona virus, or Covid-19. [Originally published at High North News]. UArctic will be working with its members and partners to help identify additional learning resources to support the increased need for online teaching.

The Arctic Five universities had their fifth workshop about Joint Masters Course on the Arctic Inclusive Pedagogy on 24-25 February in Umeå, Sweden. The project group has now visited all the Arctic Five universities.

Within three weeks, students of Yakut State Agriculture Academy will provide veterinary services for reindeer herds rehabilitation from brucellosis in northern Yakutia, Anabarskiy uluus.

UArctic’s partners, members, and sponsors are welcome to organize their own side events during the UArctic Congress 2020. Deadline April 22, 2020.

The University Centre of the Westfjords is searching for an energetic individual to fill the demanding role of Director of the master’s program in Coastal and Marine Management.

International Conference “Magmatism of the Earth and Related Strategic Metal Deposits” is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences and 100th anniversary of birth of outstanding petrographer Tatiana Nikolaevna Ivanova.