The Portuguese ILLUQ team returned to the Arctic for a three-week field campaign in the Canadian Yukon, 19 July–10 August 2026.

A new award program honors the UArctic Founders by giving back to the next generation of Arctic research.

The DTU team have been in Greenland again in summer and fall 2025 to study the linkages between permafrost thaw and drinking water quality.

In September ILLUQ participated in the ThawingLYR seminar: Connecting perspectives on permafrost change in Longyearbyen

At the end of May, the ILLUQ consortium convened in the beatiful Spetses in Greece for its second General Assembly.

Work packages 1, 2 and 3 joined efforts together with the project ThinIce (Thawing industrial legacies in the Arctic - a threat to permafrost ecosystems) also this year, in the western arctic tundra.

ILLUQ WPs 1 and 3 joined forces again with the German ThinIce project while visiting Inuvik in Nortwest Territories in Canada.

From 2-14 February 2026 researchers Evan Allen and Christina Goldhar left Stockholm for Longyearbyen to complete fieldwork for work package 8.4 ‘adaptive governance’.

The Portuguese team set off on August 22nd to Sisimiut, Greenland, with the mission of collecting samples for contaminants in flora and fauna.

Summer 2026 saw an exciting opportunity for collaboration between Umeå University and Tromsø University to conduct fieldwork on Svalbard for WP2.

WP8 adventured to Ilulissat in Greenland in March 2026 to engage with local stakeholders.

Summer means expeditions in Arctic research. A team, led by the ILLUQ coordinator Hugues Lantuit, is currently on the Hersechel Island / Qikiqtaruk on field work related to the WPs 1 and 6.

The summer 2026 WP6 embarked on an interview journey to Tuktoyaktuk NWT, Canada.

The fantastic town of Sisimiut welcomed us again in February 2026, thanks to the Arctic DTU.

The past week ILLUQ held its first annual meeting in the beatiful Sesimbra in Portugal.