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ACCESS General Assembly 2015

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:23:47 +0100

The final ACCESS General Assembly will be held from February 24th to 26th, 2015 at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Vilanova i La Geltrù.

An icebreaker will take place in the evening of February 23th and a dinner will be organised on February 25th.

Click here to download the tentative agenda.

Please register by February 6th, 2015 using the registration form available here .

You have the possibility to present a poster at the General Assembly. Please provide us information about your poster ...

Arctic Indigenous Peoples and results of the ACCESS-EU project

Fri, 7 Nov 2014 11:47:28 +0100

In the framework of WP5 activities of ACCESS, a 2-day workshop on “Arctic Indigenous Peoples and the results of the EU ACCESS project on long term climate change effect on the Arctic” will be organized in Paris on July 9 to 10, 2014.

The aims and objectives of the workshop are:

(1) To ensure as far as possible, different Indigenous Peoples views are appropriately integrated with relevant ACCESS tasks and deliverables;

(2) To understand how the results of the ACCESS project can better help the indigenous ...

Arctic Science Summit Week 2015

Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:48:09 +0200

The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2015 will be held at the Toyama International Conference Center in Toyama, Japan.

The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) is the annual gathering of the international organizations engaged in supporting and facilitating Arctic research. The purpose of the summit is to provide opportunities for coordination, collaboration and cooperation in all areas of Arctic science. The summit attracts scientists, students, policy makers and other professionals ...

2015 Arctic Frontiers - Climate and Energy

Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:46:20 +0200

The 9th Arctic Frontiers conference will be held in Tromsø, Norway, with the title: Climate and Energy, from Sunday 18 January to Friday 23 January 2015.The earth is in the midst of major climate changes. The Arctic is experiencing the impact of these changes more and faster than other parts of the globe. Processes starting in the Arctic may have deep and profound impacts on other parts of the globe. At the same time the Earth's population is rising and with it the global energy demand. New and ...

Arctic Futures Symposium 2014

Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:24:25 +0200

The 2014 Arctic Futures Symposium is looking forward to welcoming Arctic stakeholders to Brussels on October 14th and 15th. The focus for this year's symposium will be the Arctic, its people, and its economy.

» more information on its own website

Established in 2010 to raise public awareness of important developments in the Arctic region, the annual Arctic Futures Symposium has become an essential venue for promoting ongoing dialogue between Arctic stakeholders, and the empowerment of inhabitants ...

Summer School: Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society

Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:06:25 +0200

The Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society (ACCESS) and Arctic Resilience Report (ARR) Summer course

September 22-26, 2014. Stockholm, Sweden.

We cordially invite applications for the ACCESS and ARR summer course organized jointly by the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics (ACCESS partner) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (ARR partner), and hosted at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The summer course is open for about 20 participants from natural and social sciences including ...

Second Arctic Circle Assembly

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:44:03 +0200

On behalf of President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson of Iceland, Parliament of Greenland Member Kuupik Kleist, Alaska Dispatch Publisher Alice Rogoff and distinguished partners, we invite you to attend the second annual Arctic Circle assembly, which will be held October 31- November2, 2014, in Reykjavík, Iceland, at Harpa Reykyavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre.The inaugural gathering drew more than 1200 participants from 40 nations, bringing together a diverse group of individuals and organizations ...

ACCESS General Assembly 2014

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:32:01 +0100

The 3rd ACCESS General Assembly will be held from March 3 to 7, 2014 in Cambridge (Monday afternoon to Friday noon) in Cambridge. Jeremy Wilkinson has kindly proposed to host it at British Antarctic Survey*.

» Click here to download the agenda and the presentations

The registration is open for partners on Vitamib platform until 14 February 2014 (section “meeting management”), so partners can either register directly on the platform or send an email to Melanie Pellen. Please let her know your travel ...

Arctic Ocean and Coastal Communities - Changes, challenges and livehoods

Sat, 1 Mar 2014 17:51:12 +0100

EU ACCESS project – Arctic Climate Change Economy and Society

Arctic Centre (University of Lapland), Rovaniemi, Finland

Stakeholders' workshop on February 20-21, 2014, Thule Room.

Fishing is the livelihood of many Arctic coastal communities in Northern Norway and Northern Russia. The workshop aims to bring together different groups of stakeholders who share common interests in the resources of the Arctic ocean. The stakeholders from Northern Norway and Northern Russia will discuss the ongoing changes ...

Fifth Polar Shipping Summit 2014

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:16:55 +0100

The 5th Polar Shipping Summit will convene 26-27 February 2014 in London, UK.

The goal of the Polar Shipping Summit is to create awareness of international commercial shipping to the North American region and promote understanding of international polar shipping activities. The summit will address key developments in transport and regulation in the Arctic as well as commercial, communication, and safety issues. Particular emphasis will be put on evaluating potential opportunities in the region ...

Arctic Sea Ice Reduction: the evidence, models, and global impacts

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:36:12 +0100

- September 22-23, 2014 at The Royal Society, in London:

This meeting explores the recent, rapid Arctic sea ice reduction. We will discuss the evidence for change, the inability of our climate models to predict these changes, the processes responsible for sea ice reduction and improved representation of these processes in climate models, and the impacts of sea ice change on local and global weather and climate.

» more information: http://royalsociety.org/events/2014/arctic-sea-ice/ ...

Sea Ice Prediction Workshop 2014

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:22:47 +0100

The Sea Ice Prediction Workshop will be held at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) on 1-2 April 2014 in Boulder, Colorado.

The workshop goal is to plan for the 2014 SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook (SIO) and to advance the science of sea ice prediction by coordinating experiments, defining and developing data sets for initialization and validation, creating new and better metrics for evaluation, and discussing stakeholder needs.

Anticipated participants include SIO contributors, ...

ISAC-ACCESS Responding to Change workshop

Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:23:53 +0100

The International Study for Arctic Change (ISAC) and ACCESS are co-organizing the second Responding to Change (RtC2) workshop in Tromso during the Arctic Frontiers conference in order to benefit from a large stakeholders community interested in Arctic issues that will be present in Tromso during the Arctic Frontiers conference 2014. The RtC2 will include presentations from major Arctic programs such as ISAC (International), ACCESS (EU), SEARCH (USA), ARCRISK (EU), ARCTICNET (Canada), INTERACT (EU), ...

Workshop on Safe Ship Operations in the Arctic Ocean

Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:11:45 +0100

The Secretary-General is pleased to invite representation at the "Workshop on Safe Ship Operations in the Arctic Ocean", organized in collaboration with two projects: the Arctic Options: Holistic Integration for Arctic Coastal-Marine Sustainability Project, funded by the National Science Foundation (United States), and the Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society (ACCESS) Project, funded by the European Commission.

The workshop has been scheduled to take place on 28 February 2014 at IMO Headquarters ...

Arctic Options workshop

Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:25:04 +0100

Arctic Options: Holistic Integration for Arctic Coastal-Marine Sustainability Project National Science Foundation (NSF) USA and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) France have selected three hot spots (High Seas, West Greenland and Chukchi-Beaufort Seas). The workshop on December 5-6, 2013 in Santa BArbara, USA at NCEAS is about Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) applications for these three selected regions.

For more information: http://arcticoptions.org

Arctic Science Summit Week and Arctic Observing Summit

Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:38:48 +0100

The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) and the Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) meetings will be arranged during April 5-8 and April 9-11 in Helsinki. The conferences will be arranged in the facilities of the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Meteorological Institute located on the science campus Kumpula.

The ASSW is the annual gathering of international organizations engaged in supporting and facilitating Arctic research. Its purpose is to provide opportunities for international ...

AACA-C (AMAP) Barents Regional Workshop

Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:50:17 +0100

Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic run by the AMAP Arctic Council working group is organizing a two days workshop in Tromso on the Barents Region on December 10-12, 2013. The European External Affairs Services (EEAS) mandated ACCESS to participate to this meeting in order to evaluate potential contributions from the EU to this Arctic Council AACA major project. It is remarkable that both AACA and ARCSees (Arctic Options) selected the same three hot spots (Barents region, Baffin Bay ...

Arctic Frontiers 2014

Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:23:29 +0200

Arctic Frontiers ( http://www.arcticfrontiers.com/ ) holds its 8th annual conference in Tromso, Norway, from 19-24 January 2014, with the title: Humans in the Arctic. The Arctic Frontiers conference is a central arena for discussions of Arctic issues. The conference brings together representatives from science, politics, and civil society to share perspectives on how upcoming challenges in the Arctic may be addressed to ensure sustainable development.

Arctic Frontiers 2014 will address two ...