1st May 2026
IASC aims to facilitate international and interdisciplinary Arctic science. To meet this aim, it allocates funds each year for Cross-Cutting Activities – activities that are supported by at least two of the five IASC Working Groups (WGs). The objective of this WG-spanning program is to promote system-scale activities within IASC and to encourage the WGs to explore interdisciplinary activities, in particular across the natural and social sciences. In addition, IASC allocates funds to Working-Group-specific projects.
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30th April 2026
Arctic Science Summit Week 2015 was held in Toyama Prefecture in Japan, and the country has been an Observer in the Arctic Council since 2013. Given that the upcoming Arctic Science Summit Week is scheduled to be held in Hokkaido Prefecture in northern Japan, this workshop aimed to share the (sub)Arctic research landscape with local Indigenous Ainu communities. The workshop was held over two days and conducted in Japanese. Seira Duncan and Olivia Doyle, both of whom had previously worked with Ainu, were the lead organisers of the workshop. Duncan and Doyle reached out to their contacts who were then encouraged to contact others.
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30th April 2026
In recent years, Arctic research has diversified with a special focus on the co-creation of knowledge with Indigenous nations. There is much celebration of the fact that Indigenous knowledge is now being incorporated into and intertwined with Western scientific knowledge. However, discussions on how exactly this coequality may be achieved in Arctic research are rare. The general assumption seems to be that language is transparent, that research data such as traditional stories, archival information on local flora and fauna, interactions between visiting scientists and members of Indigenous communities are translated and interpreted by almost invisible agents, carrying out their work in a social, economic and political vacuum.
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