The UArctic Assembly has confirmed several new appointments and reappointments to the UArctic Board, strengthening the network’s leadership for the years ahead.

Relate North 2025 is an English-language, peer-reviewed symposium. Proposals are sought for the online symposium on November 3-4, 2025, that aim to chronicle, document, and critically analyze art, design, craft, and education in the North, including Arctic and near-Arctic regions, which focus on the theme “Lessons of the Land”.

Over 130 participants joined the UArctic Assembly 2025 in Inari, Sápmi, Finland, hosted by the Sámi Education Institute. This year marked the highest number of new members ever approved, reflecting UArctic’s expanding reach and collaborative strength.

UArctic warmly welcomes this year’s newly approved and endorsed Thematic Networks, confirmed during the Assembly in Inari. These initiatives highlight our members’ shared commitment to collaboration and knowledge exchange across the Arctic and beyond.

The UArctic Assembly concluded its final day of meetings with important decisions and acknowledgements that will help shape the path forward.

Below are the main takeaways from today's Assembly voting, which were centered around financial matters and the UArctic Congress and Assembly 2026.

Today's Assembly decisions concerned approvals of new UArctic member institutions and appointments of Board members.

Following today's productive day of pre-meetings, this year's UArctic Assembly has kicked off and will continue with the business meetings tomorrow.

In 2025 the grant is doubled from the previous year, making it possible to fund six different projects.

Observation of Change is an art project based in Nordic collaboration with a nature restoration project ”Observation – An observation of change” at the Junkerdal area in Saltdal municipality, Norway.

UArctic and World Maritime University (WMU) will co-host a 90-minute session at Nor-Shipping conference in Oslo, 4th of June at 13:30-15:00.

Join the ARCUS Monthly Community Call Series, taking place via Zoom!

As part of the Thematic Networks Success Story series, the article titled "Supporting local resilience through education, collaboration and research dissemination", highlights the activities of the Thematic Network on Local-Scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience.

As is UArctic's tradition, the themes of the UArctic Congress align with the program priorities of the Arctic Council Chairship at the time of the event. In the 2026 Congress we are therefore following the priorities set by the Kingdom of Denmark for their 2025-2027 Chairship.

The international, national and institutional coordinators of the UArctic mobility program north2north gathered in Fairbanks on 21 and 22 May 2025. Read the meeting recap below!