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The key topics in the media digest of the International Arctic Forum ‘Economic Development of the Arctic’ from November 2020 where: Northern sea route, international relations, defense and security and tourism in the Arctic.
2020 KOREA Arctic Partnership Week will be held as an On-Line VIRTUAL EVENT 7th to 11th of December.
A new cultural website on Inuit Literature has recently been opened at the initiative of the International Laboratory for Research on Images of the North, Winter and the Arctic, and thanks to the work and collaboration of many individuals.
The report Mapping Arctic Research in Iceland has been published in cooperation between The Icelandic Centre for Research, Stefansson Arctic Institute and the Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network.
The Federal Arctic Forum "Arctic Days in Moscow" will be held on the 25-27th of November, 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic supports the importance of scientific research its applications, digitalization, distance-learning /-working, and open access material for knowledge-building, such as the Arctic Yearbook, when trying to solve global crisis wicked problems.
According to the newsprovider TASS Major economic projects will be implemented in almost all regions that are part of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation.
EU-PolarNetcame to its end in June 2020. The consortium has now concluded by introducing the first fully co-designed European Polar Research Programme in addition to publishing two white papers: A white paper on European Infrastructure Access and Interoperability and a White Paper on Status of Stakeholder Engagement in Polar Research.
Regional Development Food Security in the Arctic: The Role of Geothermal Energy
20th October 2020, 16:00 - 18:00 GMT
The European Polar Science week, organised by the European Commission together with the European Space Agency, will gather the Polar science community to enhance cooperation at European level and set common challenges and priorities.
The Icepod, goes live, a podcast for the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) about polar science and the people. The editors of The IcePods are Kirstin Werner and Sara Pasqualetto from the International Coordination Office for YOPP.
The Arctic Resilience Forum will be convened every Wednesday from 11:30am – 1:00pm (EST) over a series of ten weeks. The online series will engage the broadest audience possible in conversations about how to build the resilience of Arctic communities and ecosystems across a variety of focus areas.
The 3rd Arctic Science Ministerial have planned a couple of webinars.
This webinar series is designed to increase transparency of the Arctic Science Ministerial science process and to provide additional opportunities for scientists, Indigenous Peoples and Arctic research stakeholders to further engage with the science and proposed actions leading up to the Third Arctic Science Ministerial in Tokyo, Japan in May 2021.
In the last days the Northern Forum and the Northern Youth Forum have held an online conference and yesterday the Arctic Council started their webinar series on Arctic marine matters.
According to the National Snow Ice Data Center (NSIDC) the Arctic sea ice extent reached its annual minimum on 15 September of 3.74 million square kilometers (1.44 million square miles).
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