Organizers of the Interdisciplinary Polar Studies in Svalbard (IPSiS) meeting announce a call for abstracts. The conference takes place in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway on 20-21 Sept 2015 and is accompanied by field workshops for young researchers in the Longyearbyen area (18-19 Sept 2015) and in Hornsund (22-24 Sept 2015).

A new publication "Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change. New Northern Horizons" by Frank Sejersen (New York and London: Routledge 2015) investigates how Arctic indigenous communities deal with the challenges of climate change and how they strive to develop self-determination.

Visiting Iceland, Sonja Knutson from Memorial University of Newfoundland International Office gives an introduction to the benefits and risks of internalisation in UWestfjords' lunch lecture series Vísindaport on Friday, April 10, 2015.

From 2 to 5 April XVIII Moscow International Salon of Inventions and Innovative Technologies "Archimedes-2015" took place in Moscow. More than 750 projects from 16 countries attended the Salon: Great Britain, Germany, Malaysia, Korea, Ecuador, Serbia, Croatia. The majority of inventions was presented in the following areas: m...

Applications detailing experience, including a full CV and providing the names of three referees should be sent by e-mail (info@scar.org) by 15th May 2015. The new person will be expected to take up the role as soon as possible after interview. For further details please see http://www.scar.org/secretariat/vacancy

Russian Foundation for Humanities (RFH) supported the project of Tyumen State Oil and Gas University "Human development and social situation in the Arctic region as a factor of the Russian Federation’s fuel-energy complex elaboration."

We invite you to take part in the International Workshop "Human Security and Socio-Economic Development in the Northern Peripheries", 22 May 2015, Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Science.

The Centre conducts applied and fundamental research and is looking for partners in prospecting and exploration of mineral fields.