Open consultation: Roadmap to decolonial Arctic research
How to make Arctic research more inclusive? How to involve Indigenous voices in the development of funding calls, proposals and project evaluation, and in other actions and instruments throughout the whole project cycle? It is now possible to review the draft of the Comprehensive Policy Brief to the EU Commission - A roadmap to decolonial Arctic research
The CO-CREATE group invites concerned partners, organizations and the public to review the draft entitled “Roadmap to decolonial Arctic research” and provide their suggestions for further improvement.
The Roadmap proposes concrete recommendations to the European Commission on how to make EU funding structures, processes, and research programmes more inclusive when it comes to research in the Arctic.
We look for constructive comments and suggestions to improve the recommendations, highlight key areas for action and future challenges and opportunities. Your constructive suggestions will contribute to mainstream decolonial research practices in the Arctic. We will take into account all comments and suggestions when developing the revised, and final Roadmap.
Why is the roadmap important?
At the international level, the rights of Indigenous Peoples have been receiving increasing legal recognition. Similarly, EU calls-for-proposals ask now for a ‘co-design approach’ in research (i.e. Horizon 2020). Arctic researchers are increasingly adopting decolonial research approaches. Yet mainstreaming decolonial research practices and initiatives that support indigenous sovereignty in the Arctic are often still lacking. There is a need to rethink research ethics and collaboration in European Arctic research.
Who is the CO-CREATE group?
The CO-CREATE network is a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous rightsholders and researchers from social sciences and natural sciences from across the Arctic and European research institutions, working together to improve research relationships across ways of knowing in Arctic research. Among the lead partners are the Indigenous Voices research group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, the Saami Council, the University of Oulu, the UFZ & iDiv, the IASS, the APRI and University of Vienna, the University of Groningen, the Foundation of Siberian Studies. They build on long-term experience in collaborative and co-creative Arctic research and lobbying.
This draft of the roadmap has been prepared through a monthly series of online working meetings, and online survey, two dialogue sessions with the EU Commission, and an in-depth 3-day writing retreat in Alta, Norway hosted by the Indigenous Voices Research Group at UiT.
How can you participate in the open consultation?
Feedback was accepted until 08.01.23. Thank you for your contributions.
The final roadmap can be accessed here.
CO-CREATE group at the writing retreat in Alta, September 2022. Photo: Magne Kveseth, UiT
