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CALL FOR PAPERS Securing the Indigenous: A Workshop

While development aid is nominally targeted at improving the ‘human security’ of indigenous peoples, in practice it functions to depoliticize them, shaping a...

Fri, Dec 03, 2010

Graduate Student Fellowships: Canada’s Arctic Foreign Policy

Call for Proposals / Appel de propositions (pour de détails en francais)The Northern Governance Thematic Network of the University of the Arctic, with suppo...

Fri, Dec 03, 2010

Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts Celebrates 10th Anniversary

University of the Arctic and its 126 members across the Circumpolar Northcongratulates the Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts, on the occasion of the...

Fri, Dec 03, 2010

International Secretariat hosts Fairbanks delegation to establish UArctic Finance Office

Pat Pitney and David Read of the University of Alaska Fairbanks met with President Lars Kullerud and the UArctic International Secretariat this week (Nov 30...

Thu, Dec 02, 2010

A new evolving Thematic Network on Program of Cooperation in Ecological Education (EECP) is looking for partners

Thematic network will focus on creating and developing an effective network model to promote environmental education for schools and higher educational inst...

Thu, Dec 02, 2010

Russian, Norwegian Arctic universities cooperate

The universities in Norwegian Tromsø and Russian Arkhangelsk are widening their field of cooperation. Last week a delegation from Arkhangelsk visited Tromsø,...

Wed, Dec 01, 2010

Understanding Indigenous Economic Development in Northern, Rural, and Remote Settings: Frameworks for Change Workshop Summary Report

On November 24 and 25, 2010, a workshop on Indigenous economic development was hosted at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, BC, C...

Tue, Nov 30, 2010

UArctic Thematic Network on Coastal & Marine Issues - Call for papers/posters Kick-off-session during ICASS VII

The new UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Coastal and Marine Issues, led by University of Akureyri and University Centre of the Westfjords in common, repres...

Tue, Nov 30, 2010

Another Successful BCS Core Courses Revision Team Meeting

The UArctic Core Course Revision Team (CCRT) participated in a workshop in Spetses, Greece, from October 21-23, 2010. This was the latest step in the revisio...

Fri, Nov 26, 2010

Arctic Footprint and Policy Assessment report published

The EU Arctic Footprint and Policy Assessment study aims to improve the effectiveness of EU environmental policies with respect to the Arctic region.

Thu, Nov 25, 2010

Position available at SIU (Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education)

A position is available at the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU), a public Norwegian agency that promotes internationa...

Thu, Nov 25, 2010

UArctic Thematic Networks Teacher Named Best Online Teacher in Norway

Equipped with mobile phones and computers, Mathis Persen Bongo has given reindeer herders an opportunity to pursue higher education, while herding reindeer....

Mon, Nov 22, 2010

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