The 10th Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region was held in Akureyri, Iceland from September 5-7, 2012. In their conference declaration, the parliamentarians once again reaffirmed their support of the University of the Arctic, asking their governments to "Continue to strength[en] cooperation between the Universit...

The International Centre for Northern Governance and Development (ICNGD) is pleased to provide you with the Summer 2012 edition (Vol. 2, Issue 5) of ICNGD News. Please see attached in PDF format.

Thule institute is organizing “5th Joint Northern Environmental Research Symposium” on September 10-14, 2012, together with the University of Hokkaido, the Finnish Institute in Japan and the University of Lapland. The symposium will be held partly at the University of Oulu, in Environmental Sciences Building (Lecture hall IT1...

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 Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre and the University of Lapland. The keynote speakers include Charles Emmerson (Chatham House) and Donald...

Jan Henry Keskitalo, UArctic's Vice-President Indigenous, today delivered an opening address for the University of Lapland's new academic year. In his speech, Keskitalo focussed on the importance indigenous perspectives in higher education. He noted that the network of the University of the Arctic can be an important resource...

Beate Hummel is from Germany. She has studied sociology and psychology and been working as a psychologist, first, in different hospitals, and now on her own practice, that gives her a lot of time to travel, she says. And for the last ten years she has been traveling a lot. Firstly she was very busy taking courses for her prof...