Government officials, politicians, organisational representatives and citizens met in Saariselkä Finland, from October 4-5 to discussion the situation of cross-border obstacles between Finland, Sweden and Norway.

This aim of this conference is to provide a forum to present and discuss good practice in spatial planning, with particular reference to Northern Europe. The conference will take place at the Newton Hotel in Nairn, Scotland.

The Government of Canada Program for IPY is now issuing a Call for Proposals inviting interested Canadian organizations to submit proposals for funding for training, communications and outreach projects in conjunction with International Polar Year.

ArcticStat, a socioeconomic circumpolar database covering thirty arctic regions in eight countries, is now available online.

The University Centre of the West Fjords seeks a capable person for a demanding new positions: director of the master's program in Coastal and Marine Management.

The National Inuit Education Summit scheduled to take place in Inuvik, NWT on November 7-9th 2007 has been postponed until the Spring of 2008.

The Department of Arctic Biology at The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) is accepting applications for the following two positions:

The Northern Governance team will be meeting in Bodø from the 17-19 of October. The group will be discussing collaborative research opportunities, graduate programming, and curriculum development among other things.

The Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO) in Oslo, Norway is seeking a candidate in the social sciences with an interest in studies of adaptation and vulnerability to climate change, with an emphasis on the Arctic.

The University of the Arctic Office of Undergraduate Studies, located in Saskatoon Canada, welcomes graduate student assistants Bonnie Leask and Georgia Gerontas to the team.

The final GoNorth meeting took place at Lulea Technical University, Lulea , Sweden from September17-19.

Camilla Hansen, originally born and bred in Stockholm Sweden, has just recently started a new position within the UArctic organisation; Director of UArctic Online Course Catalogue.

First Circulation of the SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference "Polar Research - Arctic and Antarctic Perspectives in the International Polar Year", to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 8th - 11th 2008 has been released.

This past week, members and academic leads of the UArctic’s Thematic Networks on Global Change met in Tromsø to organize and develop graduate level curricula. The meeting was very successful, and the teams are well on their way to meeting their fall 2008 target.   

The Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Sakha State University and the University of the Arctic Thematic Network 'World Image of Indigenous  Peoples of the North' hosted the international scientific conference 'Problems of Philology and Cross-Cultural Communication at the Present' from September 27-30, 007 in Yakutsk, the Sak...