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Open Calls for researchers in Polar Law Symposium and Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit

A new window now open to Finland´s Arctic activities

The ArcticFinland.fi website is now presenting Finland as an Arctic country also in English. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland have signed an agreement to develop the site maintained and updated by the Arctic Centre as an Arctic gateway for international audience.

Call for Papers: Northern Political Economy Symposium 2017

Political Arctic/Arctic Political

Arctic Centre studies food security in the Arctic

The new project of the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland will explore the concept of human security as it applies to food security in the Arctic. The central aim in the project is to develop a network of scholars in order to promote new knowledge concerning the effect of climate change in the circumpolar Arctic on its vulnerable groups of population in regard to promoting overall food security.

Hot Stuff in Arktikum

The hottest exhibition of the year reveals the secrets of Arctic dating and mating with a dash of hay barn romance and summer meadow. The Hot Stuff exhibition is open in the Arktikum Science Centre from the 2nd of June 2017 to the 22nd of April 2018.

Arctic Centre's Annual Report 2016

Arctic Centre's Annual Report 2016 is now published.

Rovaniemi conference connects the UN Sustainable Development Goals with the Arctic

The Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit conference on November 14-16th, 2017 in Rovaniemi, Finland offers an opportunity to reflect on Arctic cooperation and its future. The main theme of the conference is how to bring the UN Sustainable Development Goals to Arctic science, policy and economy. Thus the Conference takes further one of the key guiding lines in the Finnish Chairmanship program for the Arctic Council.

Report on the adaptation actions for a changing Arctic in the Barents Area

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) has released the Barents Area assessment report, a result of four years of research towards understanding the adaptive capacity of the Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Russian Arctic.

Nature Photographs of the Year in Arktikum

Nature Photographs of the Year are on display in spring exhibition in Arktikum Science Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland.

Adaptation to changes in the Arctic facilitated also by consideration of non-climate factors

Government Communications Department, 28.2.2017