Through research, education and cooperation - Ilisimatusarfik is shaping the Arctic
News|26. September 2026
Seven PhD graduates honoured at the Annual Celebration
Research into areas such as working environment, schools, sled dog culture, health and homelessness took centre stage when Ilisimatusarfik celebrated its Annual Celebration
Annual Celebration
Press release
News|26. September 2026
Mitdlarak Lennert becomes new pro-rector at Ilisimatusarfik
The Board of Ilisimatusarfik has approved the appointment of Mitdlarak Lennert as new pro-rector. She will take up the position on 1 October 2026
New pro-rector
Press release
News|22. September 2026
Javier Arnaut awarded prestigious Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship
Javier Arnaut has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship
Javier Arnaut
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship
News|01. September 2026
Semester Start at Ilisimatusarfik
Ilisimatusarfik welcomed 203 new students today
Studiestart
Semester Start
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Future events
Event
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22. October 2026
Emma Vitale's PhD defense
Emma Vitale will defend her PhD thesis titled: "Pulling together: The history of Arctic sled technology and human-dog interactions"
Emma Vitale
PhD defense
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