News & Press Releases
8 December 2014
Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 9th of December, Mrs. Inga Dora Markussen, Secretary General of the West Nordic Council will pay a visit to Akureyri, capital city of the Northern Iceland.
4 December 2014
New book on the legal regulation of oil and gas exploration in the marine Arctic is now available.
3 December 2014
The Arctic Frontiers – international conference on Arctic issues will take place in Tromso, northern Norway 18th – 23rd of January 2015.
2 December 2014
The Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat is looking for two communications interns to join its team for a 4-month internship from 1 February 2015.
1 December 2014
Arctic Biodiversity Congress 2014 will start tomorrow in Trondheim, Norway. The main goal of the conference is to promote the conservation and sustainable use of Arctic biodiversity through dialogue among scientists, policy-makers, government officials, industry, civil society and indigenous peoples.
28 November 2014
The Nenets Agrarian Economic Technical School invites interested individuals to take part in the scientific conference "Science. Education. Production."
27 November 2014
The final version of the white paper on Requirements for Monitoring of Permafrost in Polar Regions in response to the WMO Polar Space Task Group, is now available online.
26 November 2014
The Arctic Encounter Symposium will take place in Washington, United States on January 30th – 31st 2015.
25 November 2014
The University of the Arctic has just opened the application process for seven different Circumpolar Studies courses to its member universities and international studies worldwide.
24 November 2014
This month the International Maritime Organization (IMO), at the 94th session of its Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), adopted the mandatory International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters (Polar Code), and related amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) in order to make it mandatory.
21 November 2014
The team of PAGE21 WP 8 has just released PAGE21 - DOC – the PAGE21 Data Output Catalogue.
19 November 2014
The Future Arctic Energy Network(FAE) will be awarding one partial fee scholarship in 2015, for the graduate programmes offered by the Iceland School of Energy. The scholarship programme aims to attract outstanding students from a wide range of backgrounds, who have a common interest in energy related topics which are relevant to the Arctic.
18 November 2014
As much of future oil and gas development will happen in the Arctic, the links between the circumpolar North and the rest of our planet will further increase as well as the public impact of industrial development, not least on companies as well as states' reputations and most significantly on the populations which live in the Arctic.
14 November 2014
Five master's degree programs at the University of Lapland, Finland will be open for applications December 1, 2014 - January 31, 2015. The programs are Arctic Art and Design, Comparative Social Work, International and Comparative Law, Media Education, and Tourism, Culture and International Management. Studies start in Sept 2015.
13 November 2014
When Danes check their weather reports starting next autumn, they can thank cheap, Icelandic energy, rather than the weatherman himself, that the forecasts have become more accurate.
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