Newsletter EU-PolarNet 1​

Content

• In polar boot camp
  EU-PolarNet organised a five-day white paper workshop, bringing together 50 polar experts to discuss urgent polar issues of high societal relevance. The output are five truely transdisciplinary topics.

• A farewell and a welcome
  Antje Boetius succeeds Karin Lochte as scientific director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and thus becomes the new coordinator of EU-PolarNet.
  

   

• COP23: Linking the poles to small island states
  EU-PolarNet is co-organising three events at the upcoming UN climate conference in Bonn – of which one is officially endorsed by the Fijian Presidency and gives the floor to Fiji’s Climate champion Hon. Inia Seruiratu and Aqqaluk Lynge, former President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council. 

   

• The EU Arctic Cluster
  The currently funded Horizon 2020 Arctic projects together build the EU Arctic Cluster – a network, which merges the most up-to-date findings on Arctic change and its global implications. Learn more about the cluster’s objectives and its participating projects.

• Science as a catalyst for cooperation
  EU-PolarNet, the European Polar Board and INTERACT organised a joint interactive session on “EU Arctic Policy: Science As Catalyst For International Cooperation” at this year’s Arctic Circle – and got some valuable input from the audience.

   

• Meeting Report: Policy Briefing
  EU-PolarNet organised its first policy briefining in Brussels, teaming up with the European Polar Board. The theme: “Breaking records: How high temperatures in the Arctic affect European society”. The briefing report is online.

   

• Meeting Report: ICASS IX
  EU-PolarNet hosted two sessions at the Ninth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, which took place in Umeå, Sweden, beginning of June.