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Like a last stop before hitting the motorway, the Greater Snow Geese make a stop along the St Lawrence each spring. This is where they refuel before resuming their flight to their nesting grounds in the Arctic. This stopover has consequences for the dynamics of the ecosystem thousands of kilometres further north.

INQ is launching a call for abstracts (oral communication and scientific poster) for its annual Symposium to be held on May 12-13, 2025 at UQAM under the theme Health - Climate - Environment. Abstract submission deadline: March 23, 2025.

Read our January 2025 newsletter.

INQ invites you to a unique exploration of northern territories through a free MOOC accessible online. From February 3 to April 4, 2025, immerse yourself in a course that has already attracted over 13,500 participants.

The last newsletter of the year 2024 is out! INQ team would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy holiday season!

Offered in winter 2025 by Institut nordique du Québec, under the aegis of its training committee, this practical Inuktitut course is designed to introduce participants to the language of the Inuit of Nunavik. Registration is now open!

The Forum on the Future of Institut nordique du Québec, held on December 18, 2024 at the Monastère des Augustines in Quebec City, marked an important step in the process of developing the next INQ Strategic Plan 2025-2030.

In 1958, everyone in Salluit lived in an igloo," recalls André Casault, a professor at the School of Architecture at Laval University. In just two generations, the Inuit had to learn to live in immobile houses imported from the south.

In the Arctic, climate change is synonymous with thawing permafrost, a phenomenon that Frédéric Bouchard observes and measures on the ground and from the air.

In southern Quebec, we turn on the tap and watch the wastewater go down the drain without question. Not so in Nunavik, where permafrost prevents the construction of water and sewer systems. At home, questions arise not only about drinking water management, but also about water quality, as Stéphanie Guilherme, professor in the Department of Civil and Water Engineering at Université Laval, explains.

Read the INQ newsletter, May 2024 edition.

René Therrien has been appointed interim director of Institut nordique du Québec (INQ). Professor Therrien has a long-standing relationship with the INQ, having chaired its Implementation Committee from 2014 to 2019...