News & Press Releases

Arctic Portal News Portlet

24 June 2014

Arctic Sea Ice extent may 2014

National Snow and Ice Data Center has issued an update to Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis describing a winter sea ice conditions in the Arctic Ocean.

23 June 2014

Shipping in arctic waters

International conference and exhibition on performance of ships and structures in ice starts on Sunday 28th of June 2014. The event will take place in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

20 June 2014

RFH & RCN

The Russian Foundation for Humanities (Russia) and the Research Council of Norway (Norway) open a new call in the field of humanities. Deadline for the application is 10/09/2014.

19 June 2014

Herring

The European Union has decided to drop the sanctions that it had imposed on the northeast Atlantic nation of Faroe Islands.

18 June 2014

Évora, Portugal

EUCOP 4, is going to be held in Évora, Portugal 18-21 June, 2014. The PAGE21 project partners are actively participating in the conference chairing various sessions and presenting the latest research. Full list of accepted abstracts can be found here.

16 June 2014

arctic reindeer sled

Arctic Centre participates in organizing a joint workshop on Arctic Sacred Sites and Culturally Important Landscapes.

12 June 2014

Shanghai China

The China´s Nordic Arctic Research Center (CNARC) fellowship program has just announced the extension of the application deadline.

11 June 2014

International Cooperation flags

Norwegian Center for International Cooperation in Education (SIU) invites Norwegian higher education institutions to apply for funding for international cooperation through five programmes. Up to NOK 55 million (USD 9 million) will be allocated to Norwegian cooperation with BRICS, North America, the Republic of Korea and Japan.

10 June 2014

Ship at sea with the midnight sun

Today, 10th of June 2014 a group of students and faculty from Western Kentucky University (WKY) – Toppers at Sea – visited the University of Akureyri with lectures and presentations of climate change.

6 June 2014

The Earth

The 9th Arctic Frontiers conference will be held in Tromsø, Norway, with the title: Climate and Energy, from Sunday 18 January to Friday 23 January 2015.

5 June 2014

American dollar

The China – Iceland Arctic Economic Roundtable will take place today in Hotel Natura, Nautholsvegur 52 in Reykjavik from 15.00 – 17.00.

4 June 2014

Halldór Jóhannsson introducing the Arctic Portal

The second China – Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium will continue throughout the day at the University of Akureyri, northern Iceland.

3 June 2014

CNARC banner

Second China – Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium starts today at the University of Akureyri, northern Iceland.

2 June 2014

EU and their arctic strategy

Today, Monday June 2 from 13:30 to 16:00 at the Nordic House

30 May 2014

Chinese and Icelandic flags

The Free Trade Agreement between China and Iceland was signed last month. It happened for the first time in history that China has agreed an FTA with an European country.

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