Arctic Congress 2024: Increased connectivity and knowledge exchange
The Arctic Congress in Bodø, Norway, included high-level sessions, network activities, and social and cultural events and presented excellent opportunities for researchers, policymakers, businesses, and students to increase their connectivity and knowledge exchange on Arctic issues.
From May 29th to June 1st, 2024, several partners in FutureArcticLives participated in the annual Arctic Congress this year held in Bodø Norway. The Congress merged three meetings, incl. ICASS XI - The 11th Congress of International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA), The High North Dialogue 2024 and the UArctic Congress.
The congress included high-level plenary sessions, several parallel sessions, network activities, and social and cultural events. This brought excellent opportunities for researchers, policymakers, businesses, and students to increase their connectivity and knowledge exchange on Arctic issues.
FutureArctic partners presented in several session and also organized one session including Birger Poppel in WP4 organizing session 5.16 - Assessing Human Development, Quality-of-Life/Happiness and Sustainable Development in the Arctic, where he presented “Greenlandic surveys from SLiCA and onwards focusing on different aspects of quality of life” and Martin Reinhardt Nielsen in WP1 presented “Quantifying household reliance on hunting and fishing in Greenland”.
In addition, Birger Poppel presented “Inequality in Greenland” in session 4.0.8 - People of the North; Social and economic inequalities in the Arctic.
Camilla Brattland in WP3 presented Restoring ecosystems is restoring culture and traditional livelihoods - the Porsangerfjord project in session 4.1.11 - Restoring sustainable food systems, livelihoods and ecosystems in the Arctic and Indigenous leadership in knowledge production for salmon and extractive economies in session 4.1.12 Indigenous-led Research Methodologies.
Camilla also participated in the People of the North panel debate talking about living conditions, health, cultural diversity, gender, jobs, industry, sustainable development, Indigenous Peoples, and youth in the North.
In addition to FutureArcticLives input to the Congress, we are proud that Birger Poppel, Emeritus at Ilimatusarfik, was awarded the Gabriella Nordin-Skjöld IASSA Service Award for outstanding contribution and service to IASA as an organization building its capacity and capabilities.
