Your insights would be a valuable contribution to this effort, and it would be an honor to have you as part of this impactful journey. This is a unique opportunity for you not only to learn more about the impacts of climate change but also to actively contribute your own voice and ideas. By sharing your personal insights and observations, you can help broaden the understanding of how climate change affects these vulnerable regions. Your contributions will become part of a larger effort to connect science with society, fostering greater awareness and action. Individual submissions can be in two formats: video and text.

  • Video Format: Record a short “personal story” (max. 2 minutes) with your mobile phone, addressing one or both of the following questions:
    1. What specific changes have you observed in the Polar Regions or your environment, and what impacts do these changes have?
    2. What motivates you personally to protect the Polar Regions, and what advice would you give to others?
  • Text Format: If you prefer writing, please respond to the same questions in up to 500 characters per answer.

Furthermore, you are invited to submit various types of contributions to our Polar Panorama Gallery. You can share videos, texts (like personal narratives, informative reports, poems etc.), audio recordings, or even artistic representations that reflect your experiences and insights from the Polar Regions.The personal stories and contributions will both be showcased in our Polar Panorama Gallery, highlighting diverse perspectives on climate change in the Polar Regions. The gallery can be accessed here: Polar Panorama Gallery, and submissions can be made through this link: Polar Panorama Upload Form.

You are encouraged to share this initiative with your networks, friends, and family using the attached postcard as a promotional tool. 

Would you like to join the EU research project PolarRES and share your own impressions of the Polar Regions?

For many people, the endless expanses of the Polar Regions are faraway places they only know from documentaries. Environmental changes caused by climate change or direct human interventions are now transforming these unique landscapes and their ecosystems. To assess these changes and demonstrate the vulnerability of the Polar Regions, we aim to go beyond the researcher’s view and include citizens’ perspectives in the project.

Through a science initiative, citizens will be invited to share their thoughts and contributions in order to obtain the citizen’s view of the ongoing changes in the Arctic and Antarctic. The project focuses on people who used to or are currently living, working, or travelling in the Polar Regions. Their impressions will be reviewed and shown here as part of the Polar Panorama, an interactive online gallery.

What is the idea behind the Polar Panorama?

The project’s goal is to gain insights into societal perceptions of the changes at work in the Arctic and Antarctic. The Polar Panorama is intended as an interactive display of people’s personal impressions regarding the vulnerability and protection of the Polar Regions.