Nine UArctic Chairs and UArctic Indigenous Fellow were present at the summit. The Chairs participated in a number of sessions and organised or co-convened several, including the following: “Arctic One Health”, “Indigenizing Arctic Economics to Attain a Sustainable Future”, and “Innovative Perspectives of Interdisciplinary Research on Health and Well-Being in the Arctic Co-Constructed with Indigenous and Local Communities”.
Their paper presentations were notably focused on science diplomacy, interdisciplinary research ethics, and marine and coastal environment engineering in the field of One Health, gender equality in the Arctic, as well as capacity building through transdisciplinary intergenerational collaborative research and inclusive education. UArctic Chair Andrey Petrov was one of the invited speakers of the panel “Imperatives for Co-Production of Knowledge and Indigenous-Led Research”.
The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) is a non-governmental, international scientific organization. The Founding Articles committed IASC to pursue a mission of encouraging and facilitating cooperation in all aspects of Arctic research, in all countries engaged in Arctic research and in all areas of the Arctic region. Overall, IASC promotes and supports leading-edge interdisciplinary research in order to foster a greater scientific understanding of the Arctic region and its role in the Earth system. More information about IASC can be found here.