If you’re considering taking part in our second Scotland Model Arctic Council at Glasgow Caledonian University this March, don’t delay applying for your place! Applications close on 13th January, and we look forward to receiving yours. We’re also happy to announce dates for our third Norwich Model Arctic Council at the University of East Anglia, …
Schools Newsletter – November 2022
We’re happy to say that our two in-person MACs this January — WYCOMAC 3 and MAC Bilbao 5 — are now fully booked. But places are still available for NORMAC 7 this coming March — so don’t hesitate to register now! Read our November newsletter for details and a registration link.
Participation in Circumpolar Civic Education Workshop
This past week, I was excited to travel to Rovaniemi and Ánar/Inari, Finland, to participate in the first in-person workshop of the University of Washington’s (UW’s) ‘Co-designing Civic Education for the Circumpolar North‘ project. It’s an honour for me to collaborate on this educationally important project, led by Jason Young, Nadine Fabbi and Michelle Koutnik of UW, and funded by the …
More student remarks on SCOTMAC
I’m very grateful to Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) students Erika Tonhauser and Jessica Greig for their lovely comments about our first Scotland Model Arctic Council (SCOTMAC), in which they participated as delegates—as well as for their recommendation to fellow students to take part in the second SCOTMAC this coming March! In a recent GCU article, …
University Newsletter – October 2022
We hope you enjoyed a lovely summer! With the new academic year now underway, we’re excited to announce that our second Scotland Model Arctic Council is now open for applications from students. The conference will take place 10-12 March 2023 at Glasgow Caledonian University in Glasgow — read our October newsletter to learn more and …
Schools Newsletter – October 2022
Welcome back to school! We hope you enjoyed a lovely summer. With new academic year now well underway, we’re excited to announce our 2022-23 line-up of Polar Aspect Model Arctic Council (MAC) conferences for schools! Registration is now open for five Polar Aspect MAC schools programmes over the coming year: Online Model Arctic Council Delegate …
University Newsletter – July 2022
The second Norwich Model Arctic Council for university has been a long time in coming! Finally, after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic, we were recently able to gather together again at the University of East Anglia for our most extensive university conference. It was a triumphant return — read all about it in …
Schools Newsletter – July 2022
The academic year is finally coming to an end, and we’re all looking forward to the summer break. We wish you all the best for yours — and we hope you’ll join us for one of our Model Arctic Council conferences for secondary schools next year. Read our July newsletter to find out more about …
Norwich Model Arctic Council for University 2
The second Norwich Model Arctic Council (NORMAC) for University has been a long time in coming. It was intended to take place in the summer of 2020, a year after the first NORMAC for University. The pandemic scuppered those plans, as well as plans for the summer of 2021. So it was with a keen …
Schools Newsletter – May 2022
Earlier this month, we returned to Wycombe Abbey for our second Wycombe Model Arctic Council (WYCOMAC) conference — our final schools conference of this academic year. Read all about it in our May newsletter—and catch up on our other schools MACs this year as well. We’ll be back in touch before the academic year ends …