INTRODUCTION

Work package 9 links Arctic observations with society by ensuring efficient and meaningful communication and engagement with various audiences.

We work closely with all Arctic PASSION project partners and collaborators to communicate the project activities and disseminate our results, as well as engaging in dialogues and other activities with audiences, which include early career professionals and the scientific community, Arctic community members, decision makers and other citizens of the Arctic. 

We follow up with the partners’ work, engage with webinars and workshops, collaborate with sister projects and the EU Polar Cluster, and other interesting activities that fall under the spectrum of such a widely reaching project.

We are developing the interactive map “Arctic Window” and producing videos and webinars for the project. The Online Seminar and Dialogue Series is a tool to communicate project’s topics, share ideas, plans and results, and to initiate an inclusive and proactive dialogue with people from different groups, backgrounds and career levels. It is targeted to Arctic youth, early career professionals and other interested audiences.

We are coordinating content for the Arctic PASSION social media channels on Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook, as well as the project website. Arctic PASSION online news are also combined in a quarterly newsletter that anyone interested can subscribe to. 

In 2023, one of our highlights will be the APECS & Arctic PASSION Sharing Circle for Early Career Professionals and Arctic Youth. In this 5-day in-person event participants will learn about life and environmental change in the Arctic. We will share perspectives, experiences and knowledge and discuss how intercultural and transdisciplinary collaborations can work better. Building connections in the young generation, this event could lead towards more equitable and trustful collaborations in the future.