News|01. September 2026

Semester Start at Ilisimatusarfik

Ilisimatusarfik welcomed 203 new students today

Studiestart

Semester Start

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News|31. August 2026

New Semester, New International Guest Students

The Autumn Semester 2026 is finally underway, and once again Ilisimatusarfik is pleased to welcome a new group of international exchange students.

New Guest Students

Ilisimatusarfik

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News|28. August 2026

ONKN and SILA Partner to Bring Hunters’ and Fishers’ Knowledge into Biology Education

Oceans North Kalaallit Nunaat (ONKN) and the SILA programme at Ilisimatusarfik, the University of Greenland, have entered into a new partnership to strengthen the role of fishers’, hunters’ and Indigenous knowledge in the education of future biologists in Greenland

SILA

ONKN

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News|14. August 2026

Ilisimatusarfik Welcomes our New Teacher Education Students

Today, Ilisimatusarfik is welcoming our new group of Teacher Education students, who are the first begin the academic year

Semester Start 2026

Teaching

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News|24. June 2026

75 new graduates are set to help develop Greenland

Greenland has welcomed 75 new teachers, nurses, lawyers, journalists, business economists, theologians and other key professionals

Press release

Summer graduation

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News|12. June 2026

Pride

To mark Pride, I would like to highlight the importance of LGBTQIA+ people’s rights, visibility and sense of community

Pride

Ilisimatusarfik

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News|04. June 2026

The plans for the campus expansion are ready

The work on Uppik - the expansion of campus Ilimmarfik - is now taking an important step forward

Campus Ilimmarfik

Uppik

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News|02. June 2026

New research series: The crime scene Greenland

How do we understand crime in a Greenlandic context - in the past, today, and in the stories we tell about ourselves?

The crime scene Greenland

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News|26. May 2026

Archaeological findings in Kitsissut shed new light on the earliest humans in the Arctic

A new archaeological study from the remote Kitsissut archipelago in the High Arctic of Kalaallit Nunaat suggests that people were living in the area almost 4,500 years ago - right in the middle of a period when the important Pikialasorsuaq polynya was forming

Mari Kleist

Pauline Knudsen

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News|22. May 2026

New opportunities for research funding

Independent Research Fund Denmark has launched this year’s thematic calls for proposals in both Arctic research and Research on the Danish Realm

Arctic research

Research on the Danish Realm

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News|19. May 2026

The struggle for the Arctic is a hybrid conflict

As the ice melts in the Arctic, another threat is growing

Policy brief

Hans Peder Kirkegaard

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News|15. May 2026

Greenlandic language research attracted great interest in Montréal

Our colleague Therese Lind-Benhardt spent this spring semester on a research placement at the Université de Montréal as part of her PhD programme

Therese Lind-Benhardt

PhD programme

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News|12. May 2026

Colleague highlights educational challenges in Greenland

How does a low level of education affect a society - and what is needed to reverse this trend?

Mîtdlârak Lennert

Podcast

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News|16. March 2026

In Greenland, sled dogs remain vital partners in culture and survival, new study finds

Greenland’s sled dogs, known as qimmit, remain central to cultural life among Inuit and Kalaallit communities, according to new research published in Arctic Anthropology

Press release

Qimmit

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News|27. February 2026

Winter graduation at Ilisimatusarfik

On Friday 27 February 2026, Ilisimatusarfik marked the end of winter with celebration, pride, and high expectations for the future, as a total of 45 graduates received their diplomas

Winter graduation

Ilisimatusarfik

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