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WAAE Summit 2012: Cultural Encounters and Northern Reflections

The World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE) and the University of Lapland host a global gathering of arts educators at the most northerly university in...

Wed, Nov 07, 2012

New Ways to Respond to Climate Change in the Arctic

Professor Timo Koivurova of the Arctic Centre (University of Lapland), and lead of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law has published a new article in...

Wed, Oct 24, 2012

Protecting the Sacred: Recognition of Sacred Sites of Indigenous peoples for Sustaining Nature and Culture in Northern and Arctic Regions

The Arctic Centre (University of Lapland) is organizing an international conference, Protecting the Sacred, on the issue of indigenous sacred sites in the Ar...

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Huge blueberries that were VERY sweet greeted us in St John’s during our first walk

PhD course Human Resources in Arctic extractive industries

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Extractive Industries have organized a PhD course at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John's- - "Human Resour...

Thu, Sep 20, 2012

Dissertation: Viewing regional climate variability in Svalbard through the lens of ice chemistry and statistics

Arctic Centre researcher Emilie Beaudon’s doctoral research closes a geographical gap in the current knowledge of the European Arctic climate variability by...

Fri, Sep 14, 2012

Fifth Polar Law Symposium

On September 6-8 the Fifth Polar Law Symposium will be held at one of the birthplaces of Arctic cooperation - Rovaniemi. The meeting will be hosted by the No...

Thu, Sep 06, 2012

Arctic Health and Well-being PhD Program Meeting

Successful workshop on new Arctic Health and Well-being PhD program held in Oulu

The first planning workshop for the new PhD program on Arctic Health and Well-being was held in Oulu, Finland on August 23 -24, 2012. Workshop participant...

Wed, Aug 29, 2012

Fifth Polar Law Symposium Program

The fifth Polar Law Symposium takes place at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland on 6-8 September 2012. Professors Gudmundur Alfred...

Wed, Aug 29, 2012

APECS Meeting at 5th Polar Law Symposium, Sept 7, 2012

Conducting research is a complicated issue and the findings are often even more complicated - especially when they need to be explained to lay-persons. T...

Wed, Aug 29, 2012

Workshop on science and photography at Oulanka Research Station, Sept 3-7, 2012

A special course and workshop on science and photography will be arranged at Oulanka research station between 3.9 – 7.9 2012 as part of the Thematic Netw...

Tue, Aug 28, 2012

International summer school encourages multidisciplinary dialogue

The first joint multidisciplinary summer school by Finnish-Russian cross border university networks will collect approximately a hundred students and researc...

Thu, Aug 23, 2012

New book on Arctic Design

"Arctic Design. Opening the Discussion" is the first publication to open the debate on what is 'Arctic design.' Interest in the Arctic region has grown st...

Tue, Aug 21, 2012

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