The Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation announced an open grant competition for the international scientists cooperating with Russian institutions of higher education, scientific research organizations and governmental research centers of the Russian Federation.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Permafrost/Natural Hazards offers an International Permafrost/Natural Hazards Summer Field School (5 ECTS) in Yakutia, 1-20 August 2016. The course welcomes senior bachelor and graduate students. Application deadline is 15 April 2016.

UArctic’s Board of Governors has appointed seven new students as UArctic Student Ambassadors, bringing the total number of Ambassadors to 21. Nominated by individual UArctic higher education institution members, Ambassador appointments are for a three-year term.

Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University will hold The 2nd International Conference and Young Scientists Meeting on August 22-27, 2016, in Yakutsk.

The Conference is organized by Tomsk State University, Russia. The theme of the Conference: "Digital Nomadism as a Global and Siberian Trend"

The next deadline for submitting proposals for new UArctic Thematic Networks is 1 May 2016 for the Council meeting to be held in September in conjunction with the UArctic Congress 2016.

The registration for the UArctic Congress is now open, with the early-bird fee applicable until May 31. The deadline for submitting abstracts has also been extended until April 17. We welcome participants and abstracts from within and outside the UArctic network!

The fourth China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium will be organized in Rovaniemi June 6th-9th 2016 with the theme "The Sustainable Arctic – Opportunities and Challenges of Globalization".

The University of the Arctic welcomes scientific abstracts for the first ever UArctic Congress. The deadline for abstract submission has been extended until 17 April, 2016.

Liudmila Zamorshchikova, TN "World images of indigenous people of the North" ’ leader, tells what was done in 2015.

The International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) announces the 9th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS IX) to be held at the campus of Umeå University, in Umeå, Sweden, from 8-12 June 2017.

The Interdisciplinary Summer School is organized by Yugra State University (Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia), University of Helsinki (Finland) and Lund University (Sweden) with support of the Nordic-Russian Cooperation Programme in Education and Research (SIU and NordForsk).

PhD student Anna Rönkä, from the University of Oulu, Finland, was elected to the Arctic Frontiers Emerging Leaders 2016 –programme, funded by the Research Council of Norway. Anna Rönkä is a PhD student in the UArctic PhD Program in Arctic Health, organised by the Thematic Network on Health and Well-being in the Arctic.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Extractive Industries held its Masters/PhD field course in Mirny, Yakutia, Russian Federation from Feb 15-2016.

The 2016 Special Issue of UArctic's Shared Voices magazine is the first ever issue that is fully available in Russian due to the 20th anniversary of the Arctic Council. You can read the magazine on the web as individual online articles.