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Arctic and northern community governance: The need for local planning and design as resilience strategy

As part of the activities of the UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience, Kristof van Assche and Monica Gruezmacher (...

Fri, Apr 29, 2022

Register now: Effects of the pandemic on the European Arctic and Indigenous Health

The seminar will take place on Monday 9 May, 2022 at 13:00 - 16:30 at Black Box, Curiosum. The event will be live recorded and produced by the Umeå Universit...

Thu, Apr 28, 2022

Arctic Five Education project held workshop in Tromsø

Arctic Five Education is a project funded by Nordplus Higher Education. The project held workshop in Tromsø to discuss the future of the cooperation, as the...

Fri, Apr 08, 2022

Gender studies conference 2022: Extended call for workshops to April 1st

Gender Studies Conference 2022 Feminist matterings: Indigenous and Arctic engagements 30 November–2 December, 2022, University of Oulu, Finland

Wed, Mar 23, 2022

Call for workshops: Gender Studies Conference 2022

The conference is organized by the University of Oulu on 30 November–2 December, 2022. Feminist matterings: Indigenous and Arctic engagements. Deadline for s...

Thu, Mar 03, 2022

Learning satellite on Indigenous and tribal peoples’ studies comparing the Arctic and India held on January 31 – February 3, 2022

The UArctic Thematic Network on Law, in collaboration with the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law of the Arctic Centre of the University o...

Mon, Feb 21, 2022

MOSAiC: The most extensive Arctic Research Expedition ever - Autumn 2019-Summer 2020

UArctic Research Chair, Professor Jeff Welker and colleagues from across the Arctic have been leading measurements and discoveries of the interactions betwee...

Wed, Feb 16, 2022

Additional funding to the study of climate effects on human and animal health in the North

The Nordic Council of Minster’s research organisation NordForsk has granted additional funding to the CLINF Nordic Centre of Excellence (Climate-change Effec...

Fri, Feb 11, 2022

Team of researchers: Not enough is known about the amount and effects of microplastics on foetuses and children – advice for parents, decision makers and companies

A new, international review conducted by researchers reveals that there is not enough research data on what kind of health effects nano- and microplastics ha...

Tue, Feb 01, 2022

Thematic Networks interviews series, part 14: New Thematic Networks 2021

With the following videos, we celebrate the end of this year by introducing the new Thematic Networks established in 2021. The Leads of the networks explain...

Thu, Dec 23, 2021

Eating Plants to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on Tundra

Hundreds of species of plant-eating mammals, birds and insects – known as herbivores – inhabit the Arctic tundra. Some of these are vital for local communiti...

Thu, Dec 16, 2021

Registration open: Online course “Arctic Inclusive Education”

The 10 ECTS course is developed in collaboration with the Arctic Five universities and it will be held for the second time on spring term 2022.

Tue, Dec 14, 2021

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