News & Press Releases
18 March 2014
The European Parliament (EP) has accepted in the Plenary 12th March 2014 a resolution on the EU strategy for the Arctic.
17 March 2014
Vladimir Vasiliev, NF Executive Director, and Halldor Johansson, Arctic Portal General Manager, have presented the Northern Forum and its new tool within the Arctic Portal for participants of the Arctic Business Summit in Rovaniemi.
12 March 2014
Thermokarst Aquatic ecosystems Workshop (THAW) is taking place in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
11 March 2014
The Arctic regions have become of bigger interest and matter in a global scale. Due to vast natural resources and melting of Arctic sea ice, the area is in many ways facing a new challenging era.
10 March 2014
Successful meetings of Northern Forum representatives and their Icelandic partners took place during the weekend 7th – 9th of March 2014.
7 March 2014
Norwegian fishing authorities demand compensation from Icelandic ones, claiming that they have not been able to catch their full quota for capelin in Icelandic waters.
6 March 2014
Yesterday, 5th of March, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate announced the great success of their iPhones/iPads App entitled Oil Facts.
5 March 2014
Proactive master and PhD students from different countries gathered in the Northern (Arctic) Federal University (Arkhangelsk) with aim to increase their knowledge on the Arctic issues, meet like-minded participants from the other countries and develop their leadership skills.
4 March 2014
On Wednesday, 5th of March in Hafnarfjörður, southern Iceland, the the Toronto-based theatre company Human Cargo will perform the play Night which explores issues facing Inuit in the Canadian Arctic.
3 March 2014
On Tuesday 25th February, at the University of Akureyri, Erik Franckx gave a concise speech for the „Law Forum" on „the Arctic and Mass media" to underline the importance of studying legal regimes and of doing research in the region.
28 February 2014
Arctic Services, a joint initiative between companies and institutions in Iceland, collectively, has over 40 years' experience servicing Arctic operations in the North Atlantic.
27 February 2014
The Arctic Yearbook 2014 is calling for abstracts. Deadline for the submission is 1st of March 2014.
21 February 2014
The Department Political Studies at University of Saskatchewan invites applications for four master's fellowships in comparative Northern governance research.
20 February 2014
In 2013 North-Eastern Federal University established its own academic mobility program to support its students going for exchange studies abroad. Students are especially encouraged to apply for UArctic member institutions. This is an article authored by Daria Burnasheva from the NEFU International Relations Office.
19 February 2014
Having been tasked by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in October last year to produce a report on the assessment of the status of accession negotiations between Iceland and the European Union and developments within the EU, the Institute of Economic Studies at the University of Iceland has now delivered its findings. In the Institute‘s report the main emphasis is on the period since the summer of 2009, when Iceland applied to become a candidate for EU membership, and it focuses on legal, instutitional and economic developments in the European Union.
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