The High North Young Entrepreneur award is an international pitch competition for Arctic-related business ideas, with a prize of NOK 50,000. The next award ceremony will take place during the High North Dialogue conference in Bodø on March 26-27, 2025.

An edge of an edge of an edge

Tue, Dec 10, 2024
The second annual Critical Arctic Studies Symposium organised by the UArctic Thematic Network in Critical Arctic Studies







Three Chairs have now been accepted as members of the Academic Advisory Board (Mimir), Karl Kreutz, Philip Steinberg, and Tuija Turunen. Mimir is the UArctic Academic Advisory Board, which serves as a high-level strategic body for UArctic.



UArctic Chair David Anderson in collaboration with Professor Jun Akamine of Hitotsubashi University begin a research project on the history of community whaling in the Arctic. One of the first community visits was in Klaksvík, Faroe Islands, where the history of the pilot whale hunt was narrated by local fishermen.