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Navigating the combined challenges of climate change, globalization, and a shifting geopolitical landscape requires leadership at all levels and in all sectors of society. The rapidly changing Arctic illustrates the complexity of the task, with issues ranging from safeguarding human security in the Arctic and globally to managing a transition to a post-petroleum future. Central to the challenge are the close links between Arctic change and global processes. Navigating them will require insights about these connections, along with leadership skills and networks for working together across national and cultural contexts.

The aim of this workshop is to increase the capacity of individuals who may become the next generation global leaders to understand and act on the new security and governance challenges that are developing in the context of global environmental change. It will bring together a small group of young professionals with leadership aspirations with the specific task of using Arctic change as a starting point for defining what global security and governance might entail in the next 20-30 years and to explore their own roles in addressing them.
The workshop will be hosted by University of Lapland’s Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland. It is supported by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra), the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS), the University of Lapland’s Arctic Center, and the project Arctic Governance and the Question of Fit in a Globalized World funded by the Swedish Research Council Formas. Convener is Dr. Annika E. Nilsson, Mistra-Arctic Fellow at GMFUS and Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute.

We invite young professionals (age 20-35) with aspirations for leadership roles in relation to politics, community development, or research to apply to the workshop. The workshop is free of charge and local costs are covered by the organizers. Some funding is available for travel support, but we also encourage participants to look for other ways to cover travel costs. If you need support for travel costs, please provide motivation and a budget. We aim for a final selection of participants that will reflect a diversity of experiences and perspectives from within and outside the Arctic.

The application should include cover letter with:

• Short presentation of yourself
• Motivation: How you and others would benefit from your participation
• Some words about how you see global-local interactions in your area of interest
• Some words about where you see yourself as a leader in five to ten years from now
• Optional: Request for travel support with budget
• CV

Application deadline: 20 April 2017

For further information, please contact: annika.nilsson [at] sei-international.org

​The Conference is arranged as a part of the MARPART projects (www.marpart.no) and will serve as a meeting place for academia, emergency professional and governmental bodies and institutions that work in the area of maritime preparedness and emergency management. The conference will also include participants from the UArctic network on Arctic Safety and Security:
http://www.uarctic.org/organization/thematic-networks/arctic-safety-and…

Themes and topics for the conference will be in line with MARPART projects’ task studying Arctic region’s overall maritime activity, the preparedness resources and cooperation challenges with special focus on emergency management competence acquisition and knowledge transfer.

The following topics will be covered at the conference:

• Maritime risk areas in the Arctic and emergency management competence needs
• Educational programs for emergency management competence development
• Concepts and tools for simulation, training and exercises
• Framework for table top and functional large scale testing of exercise concepts

If you want to participate at the conference, please, register here:
https://response.questback.com/nord/marpart-conf2017

Registration deadline is 31 July 2017

This Summer School will provide Ph.D. students and junior scientists specializing in sea level research with a basic introduction to the dynamics of current and future sea level change and to state-of-the-art tools to measure and project it. The different contributors to global and regional sea level change will be presented by world-leading experts. The School has a strong component on “hands-on” learning, with practical exercises on the observation and modelling of sea level change, its contributors, and forcing mechanisms. Participants will also receive a training on science communication.

This Summer School will cover the most important physical processes contributing to sea level change. The main focus is on the dynamics of these processes, how they are modelled, what the available constraints and current model limitations are, and how they are used for sea level projections.

The school is open to PhD students and junior post-doc researchers working on sea-level related subjects. The registration fee is EUR 400 and includes full board, excursion and course material (EUR 200 without accommodation).

There are 30 places available. To register, please send an e-mail to Secr-grs-citg [at] tudelft.nl, specifying “Sea-level Summer School” in the subject, before 31 May 2017.

Your application should include a PDF document containing a statement why you want to participate in this course, your affiliation and name of supervisor, a short description of your research project (max 200 words) and a curriculum vitae. After this date you will receive notification whether your application has been accepted and instructions about how to wire the registration fee, which needs to be received before arrival in Delft. Accommodation is in shared twin rooms: if you want to share a room with somebody specific, please make this known upon registration.

The conference is being held in association with the 11th Rectors’ Forum of the University of the Arctic. The goal of the conference is to celebrate the University’s emergence as a world-leading centre for interdisciplinary research on the circumpolar North.

The conference will be fully interdisciplinary, with themes including:

• The Anthropocene in the Arctic
• Movements and encounters of northern peoples in the long term
• Health, demography and culture change in the North
• Land, sovereignty and indigenous rights
• Political regimes and international relations in the circumpolar North

A call for abstracts, for both oral and poster presentations, is now open, with a submission deadline of February 14th 2017.

Full instructions for submission, along with details of the conference theme, programme and registration, are available at the link above.

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) will host a webinar on the Fulbright Arctic Initiative. This webinar will be hosted via Zoom Video Conferencing and open to the public.

The Fulbright Arctic Initiative provides a platform for scholars from across the Arctic region to engage in collaborative thinking, analysis, problem-solving, and multi-disciplinary research. At its core, the Fulbright Arctic Initiative creates a network to stimulate international scientific collaboration on Arctic issues while increasing mutual understanding between people of the United States and the people of other countries. During the U.S. chairmanship of the Arctic Council (2015-2017), the Fulbright Arctic Initiative brought together 16 scholars from across the Arctic region.

Using a collaborative model to translate theory into practice, the scholars collectively addressed public policy research questions relevant to the Arctic nations' shared challenges in energy, water, health, and infrastructure.

During this webinar, co-lead scholars, Mike Sfraga and Ross Virginia, and other scholars will reflect on their experiences and the impacts of this variation on the Fulbright model.

For questions, contact:
Jessica Rohde
Email: jrohde [at] arcus.org

Join us for a PolarConnect Event with PolarTREC teacher Rebecca Harris and the research team studying Arctic Glacial Lakes.

This is a real-time event with Utah teacher Rebecca Harris and the Arctic Glacial Lakes Research Team looking at the natural variability of hydrology and sediment transport in Arctic glacial lake systems. Rebecca will discuss their field season near Lake Peters, what they sampled and observed, and what it is like to live in a remote field camp. You can read more about Rebecca's expedition, Arctic Glacial Lakes, as well as read her journals and see her photos on the expedition webpage:

https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/arctic-glacial-lakes

This event is free and hosted through the PolarTREC PolarConnect program. Participants will have a chance the learn from the scientists, ask questions, and chat with others during the presentation.

SEARCH Permafrost Action Team Lead, Ted Schuur, will be presenting a plenary talk on permafrost synthesis at
the conference.

MEC (former NBE) is an informal and friendly conference which participants attend to exchange ideas and information dealing with media education, educational use of ICTs and learning environments. MEC is organized by the Centre for Media Pedagogy at the University of Lapland and will take place at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland, 27-28 November 2017.

The first international NBE Conference was held in 2005 and the second one, NBE 2007 Conference, The Power of Media in Education in 2007. The third NBE conference was held in connection with the ISATT 2009 Conference. These three conferences were organized at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. The fourth NBE Conference, The Social Media in the Middle of Nowhere, NBE 2011, was organized in Sallatunturi, Salla and the fifth, Media Education in No Man’s Land, in 2013 as well as the sixth, In the Light of the Midnight Sun in 2015 in Pyhätunturi, Finland.

In 2017 the conference returns to Rovaniemi and it is organized right before the FERA Conference on Education, which offers you the excellent opportunity to combine these two events.

Deadline for abstract submissions: 21 August 2017

Notification of acceptance sent to authors by: 2 October 2017

Deadline for early-bird registration: 16 October 2017

There are 24 different indigenous peoples that base their lives on herding domesticated reindeer today. These nomadic reindeer herders live across the entire circumpolar Arctic and Sub-Arctic region, including areas in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Russia, China, Mongolia, and US/Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Scotland. These groups currently herd around 2,5 million domesticated reindeer, and are altogether close to 100 000 people, all included.

Every 4th year, all reindeer herding peoples of the world have their own Assembly –The World Reindeer Herders’ Congress- which is the most important meeting arena for world reindeer herders. These congresses represent the superior body of Association of World Reindeer Herders (WRH), the international indigenous peoples’ organisation for all reindeer herding peoples.

This important international event is hosted by Sáminuorra, Renägarförbundet, Svenska Samernas Riksförbund and Jokkmokk Municipality, together with Association of World Reindeer Herders. The Congress generally contains 3 parts: An official part, with the formulation of declarations, reports and elections; A professional part, focusing on important issues for sustainable reindeer husbandry; and a cultural part, with display of the unique cultural heritage and expressions of reindeer herding peoples. The 6th Congress will include a focus on human health issues, biodiversity and protected areas, industrial development and food culture.

Since 1990, world reindeer herding peoples have built their own transboundary people-to-people collaboration, and created their own worldwide CSO/ NGO in 1997. Association of World Reindeer Herders (WRH) has been a Regular Observer to the Arctic Council since 2000, and has had UN EcoSoc Consultative Status since 2010. In 2005 one has also established International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR), a professional institution for world reindeer herders and a member of University of the Arctic. ICR has the responsibility to coordinate the professional parts of the Congress.

UArctic and the local host University of Greenland / Ilisimatusarfik are pleased to invite member representatives to this year’s Council meeting.

With pre-Council side-meetings scheduled for Monday the 14th, the Council meeting will begin on the 15th with introductions and updates on UArctic’s activities, and will continue with Council meeting and networking sessions until mid-morning on the 17th. During cultural and public events, the host will put particular focus on the issue of language in terms of internationalization and nation building processes. After the Council meeting, on Thursday the 17th, the host offers a guided tour with insight into the capital’s local history, and views of the spectacular natural surroundings of Nuuk.

Prior to the start of the Council meeting, an optional excursion to the town of Sisimiut is arranged from August 12 to 14. Hosted by the Arctic Technology Centre (ARTEK) -Technical University of Denmark, the excursion will include the choice of optional thematic workshops on science or cultural excursion and hike, as well as local / historical visits, and social activity for all. Afterwards, participants can travel to Nuuk either by plane, or by passenger ship.

The Deadline for Registrations is May 15th, 2017

For more information, please follow the link above.