1. Lars Kullerud UArctic Council June 2008 www.uarctic.org Graphic Design Veli-Pekka Laitinen

2. University of the Arctic 110 members Network of Universities and other higher education institutions Sharing resources > 650 000 students 50 000 faculty

3. UArctic Programs Thematic Networks  11 Thematic networks  Many new promising initiatives Highlights: The first Environmental Impact Assessment course offered to Indigenous students from Russia Master’s program on Circumpolar Health and Wellbeing on the way. Thematic Network on World Images of Indigenous Peoples of the North run three Russian language projects, thanks to funding from Russian Academy of Science. New global change curriculum on the way

4. UArctic Programs Undergraduate Studies Significant growth in online international students New Offices for Regional online delivery of BCS Bodø – Nordic and Barents region Yakustsk, and Syktyvar - Russia

5. UArctic Programs Graduate Studies Call for lead institution for the UArctic Graduate Area in early fall 2007 led to five applications. On December 7 the UArctic Board of Governors did select the proposed University of Lapland and University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to jointly lead the UArctic Graduate Area

6. UArctic Programs Knowledge and Dialogue International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP) follow-up International Polar Year, E&O committee UArctic IPY office Fairbanks + UNIS “U-Antarctic” - International Antarctic Institute, IAI Assist in development of APECS: Association of Polar Early Career Scientists UArctic and the International Arctic Science Committee IASC partnership

7. UArctic Programs Mobility north2north – potential for growth

8. UArctic Programs Shared Resources UArctic Catalog office established with funding from Scandinavian Seminar and help from Dartmouth College Go North, project completed with success; New program focus UArctic Press: Its here – seek them !!!

9. UArctic Programs Shared Organization President – UNEP/GRID-Arendal International Secretariat – University of Lapland Academic Office – Northlands College Russian Information Centre – Yakutsk state University

10. UArctic Programs Funding Increased amount of project funding: >4 million Euro project value documented for 2007 at UArctic offices and the 1/3 of members that reported. UArctic offices hosted by members has additional 1.4 million Euro in turnover, 60% in kind. Increased government funding, in particular in Canada for 2007 Increased member engagement, including in kind funding Very poor reporting by members on the economics of their UArctic involvement.

11. University of the Arctic Network of Universities and other higher education institutions

12. UArctic Rectors Forum - Charter We, as leaders of UArctic’s Higher Education members, on behalf of our respective institutions, hereby agree to the provisions set out in this Charter and jointly commit to strive towards: 1.develop and use UArctic as a tool to implement the institutions’ tasks on conducting higher education and research relevant to local, regional, and international Circumpolar northern communities; 2.cooperate in research and science on the north, building on each other’s strengths; 3.support the initiation and participation in relevant Thematic Networks as mechanisms for joint academic cooperation at the Circumpolar level; 4.promote student mobility and organize good quality student support services for incoming students from UArctic member institutions; 5.honour and facilitate the recognition of academic credit taken at other UArctic member institutions; 6.organize the sharing of expertise through facilitating the exchange of academic staff; 7.offer UArctic’s Circumpolar Studies to our students and participate in its development and implementation; 8.promote undergraduate education and training in the Circumpolar North; 9.participate in the development and implementation of joint graduate programming on northern issues; 10.share our northern relevant course offerings through the UArctic Studies Catalog; 11.participate in the joint international marketing of our programs and to promote the north as a study destination of choice globally; 12.recognize the integral role of indigenous peoples and their knowledge in northern education, and seek to engage and incorporate their perspectives and teachings in both traditional and indigenous knowledge and to meet their needs in all of its activities.

13. UArctic Rectors Forum Planning Committee Chair: Gerd Bjørhovde, Tromsø University, Norway Denise Henning, University College of the North, Canada Andy Greenshaw, University of Alberta, Canada Lauri Lajunen, Oulu University, Finland Thorstein Gunnarson, University of Akureyri, Iceland Yuri Reytov, Yugra State University Lars Kullerud, UArctic Outi Snellman, UArctic

14. UArctic Rectors Forum – Terms of Reference ccc: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx