The Northern Sustainable Development Forum will be launched in the city of Yakutsk, September 24 -28, 2019. From this year on, the Forum is an annual event and is aspiring to become one of the main collaborative grounds for solving and discussing challenges and possible perspectives of sustainability in the North/Arctic regions.

Arranged on June 12, 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden, the Climate Culture Conference was the first ever Tandem Cultural Dialogues conference, an annual current situation and future scenario analysis which seeks to explore the future at the intersection of arts and science.

The book is comprised of 14 chapters and written by indigenous students and researchers in the UArctic EALÁT Institute in Russia. It is a part of the RIEVDAN research project "Rapid change - challenges and/or opportunities for sustainable reindeer husbandry?”.

The Government of Iceland, in collaboration with the Nordic Council of Ministers, hosts the International Symposium on Plastics in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Region in April 21-23, 2020 in Reykjavik in connection with the Icelandic chairmanship of the Arctic Council. Registration and call for abstracts are now open for the event.

Are you passionate about weather, climate, modelling, sea ice, and the Arctic? Do you want to dig deeper into what this means for stakeholders and society? Join single webinars or the full APECS-APPLICATE online course "Advancing Predictive Capability of Northern Hemisphere Weather and Climate" in fall 2019.

The call is open until July 30, 2019 to PhD students from UArctic member institutions outside Québec working in the field of northern or Arctic research. The goal is to identify six finalists that UArctic will select to represent UArctic and present their work at the Arctic Circle Assembly (10-13 Oct 2019 in Reykjavik, Iceland).

Through COFUND, the EU provides organisations established in the EU or associated countries with additional financial support for new or existing regional, national and international training programmes. The deadline for submission of proposals is September 26, 2019.

Call for projects addressing at least two of the following three areas of science: Life science; Physical Sciences & Engineering; Social Sciences and Humanities. Deadline November 13, 2019.

The Institute of Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) of University of Helsinki recently welcomed Prof. Lassi Heininen as the expert in environmental politics. To strengthen the transdisciplinary efforts, the two UArctic thematic networks, UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Boreal Hub led by INAR and UArctic Thematic...

Greenland Science Week is a multidisciplinary Greenlandic Arctic science conference surrounded by research-related workshops and public outreach. It builds bridges between science and the Greenlandic society, business community and government, and creates a networking and cooperation platform.

UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Boreal Hub has published a newsletter, Issue #09 - June 2019.

The five-month GEST programme is designed for professionals from government and non-governmental institutes, as well as for enthusiastic post-graduate students. For the spring semester 2020, GEST will for the first time accept two fellows from the Arctic region. Nominations are due June 30, 2019.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher to study one or more of the inter-related research areas of knowledge co-production and boundary spanning assessment related to climate change in Alaska. Application review begins 8 July 2019.

The International Mohn Prize for Outstanding Research Related to the Arctic carries a cash award of 2 million NOK (approximately 210 000 €) and is awarded biennially. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2019.

The book Sámi Early Childhood Education Now—Values, Practices and Participation in Everyday Life is intended to provide knowledge and inspiration for those involved in early childhood education and later education.