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The Calotte Academy is an annual traveling symposium and international forum in Europe’s North Calotte region, designed to promote interdisciplinary discourse and the interplay between senior and young researchers and to foster academic and policy-oriented dialogue among members of the research community and post-graduate students as well as a wide range of other northern stakeholders.  ..read more
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1y ago
UArctic International Secretariat has a new team member, Janette Peltokorpi, who started in September 2021 as the new Director of Governance and Finance Support ..read more
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1y ago
The Executive Organizing Committee for the Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) 2022 is seeking community input, in the form of brief statements, that will help guide discussions during the AOS Thematic Working Group sessions ..read more
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1y ago
On the occasion of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, jointly organized by Harbin Institute of technology, IASS Working Group21 and UArctic, the International Ice and Snow Innovation Design and Construction Competition is committed to accelerating discipline integration, promoting cultural exchanges and deepening academic cooperation in the field of ice and snow architecture.  ..read more
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On Sept 14th, the founding partners for the Thematic Network on Bioregional Planning for Resilient Rural Communities hosted a webinar to celebrate the network's kick off ..read more
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The GRISCO research project invites communities near Disco Bay, Greenland to co-produce knowledge with scientists on a socially, culturally, ecologically, and economically sustainable design of ice sheet conservation of Greenland’s glaciers for helping slow down the global sea-level rise ..read more
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1y ago
Following up on their spring film screening, Yáa at Wooné, the Canadian Studies Center and partners across campus are bringing together representatives from the Tlingit and Heiltsuk Nations, as well as experts in tribal law and natural resource management from both British Columbia and Alaska, to discuss the state of Pacific herring fisheries and what Indigenous communities can learn from each other and share across the border.  ..read more
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1y ago
In an interview by the HSE University, Igor Makarov, Head of the HSE Laboratory for Economics of Climate Change at HSE University, speaks about the pressing problems Russia and the world are facing in relation to climate change, and the research HSE scholars are doing on the subject ..read more
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1y ago
The International Mohn Prize for Outstanding Research Related to the Arctic (The Mohn Prize) has been established in collaboration by Academia Borealis The Academy of Sciences and Letters of Northern Norway (NNVA), Tromsø research foundation (TFS) and UiT The Arctic University of Norway (UiT). The prize amounts to 2 million NOK, and is awarded biennially ..read more
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1y ago
Nord University Business School is currently looking to recruit a new research fellow / PhD candidate within the area of risk and emergency management. The position is a part of a research project on risk awareness and risk evaluation in the Arctic sea areas aimed at emergency management and coordination in complexity ..read more