News
Last week the government of Faroe Islands decided to launch the fishing restrictions dispute through World Trade Organization (WTO).
New application round for University of Lapland's European Master in Tourism, Culture and International Management (EMACIM) master's program will be open from December 2nd to January 31st 2014.
Ice Information Services of the World Work to Enhance the Safety of Marine Operations in Ice-Covered Waters
25th of October 2013 in Reykjavik, the capital city of Iceland hosted by the University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office this month, experts from the International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG) held their 14th annual meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland.
The Day of the Arctic will officially take place on Thursday, 14th of November. The event will be held in Icelandic at the Icelandic Marine Research Institute in Reykjavik.
Canadian partners in INTERACT (International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic), Centre d'études Nordiques (Centre for Northern Studies, CEN) and Arctic Institute of North America (AINA), open a call for research grant proposals for European-based research groups to conduct research at two field stations operated by the partners. The call is open from Nov 1-Dec 15, 2013.
Yesterday, 31st of October, for the first time all Nordic Council´s 5 prizes were announced and presented together at the Nordic Council Prize Gala.
The month of October brought together international partners from all the Arctic states and their European partners at various events.
The European Arctic Initiatives Compendium has now been published.
The compendium, which is part of work package one of the project, compiles flagship initiatives undertaken in the Arctic regions by member states and actors operating within states belonging to the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA).
Meeting the challenges of their previous decisions, Greenlandic government decided to discuss controversial mining law that was passed at the end of last year.
The University of Hamburg has an opening for 2 research associate positions (with opportunity to pursue a PhD dissertation) to work on the investigation of land-atmosphere carbon (CO2 and CH4) exchange of permafrost landscapes using eddy covariance flux measurements (position 1) and stable isotope (13CO2) techniques (position 2), respectively.
The first Senior Arctic Officials (SAO) meeting of the Canadian Chairmanship was held in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, 22 – 23 October.
International meeting of International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG) is being held in Reykjavik 21st – 25th of October 2013.
The APECS Norden Project "Bridging Early Career Researchers and Indigenous Peoples in Nordic Countries" will feature a series of 6 webinars.
On December 2-3, 2013 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) together with the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) RAS and in partnership with the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Center for Strategic and International Studies will hold in Moscow an International Conference on "The Arctic: Region of Development and Cooperation".
The Arctic Portal, together with Page21 project is happy to promote another outreach product on permafrost research.
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