The “Connecting Communities” project is exploring the feasibility of connecting Polar Educators, Early Career Researchers, and Arctic Indigenous representatives at "PEI2025 - Building Polar Bridges: Exchange, Inspire, Collaborate" in support of the 4th International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV).


Prof. Alun Hubbard will become the new Director of the Thule Institute at the University of Oulu from 1 July, 2024. The Thule Institute coordinates and promotes the University's broad and multidisciplinary Arctic and Polar activities, research, faculties, and the Arctic Research Network, and hosts the UArctic Thematic Network...





European Union Science Diplomacy Working Group 4 (WG4) on building capacity for European science diplomacy convened a two-day co-creation workshop during 6-7 March 2024, hosted by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analyses (IIASA) and the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna.


The course "Arctic Extractive Industries and Local People" is part of the University of Lapland's new "Arctic World" masters programme. The focus is on the social science study of the relations between incoming extractive industries and local people who inhabit the lands on which natural resources of interest to such industri...