26 March 2025 | 16:00 - 18:00 (MDT)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: UMC Third Floor - 386
Organisers: Anastasia Emelyanova (University of Oulu, Finland); Hannele Savela (University of Oulu, Finland); Elmer Topp-Jørgensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Session Description:
INTERACT is an EU funded circumarctic network of 74 terrestrial research stations linking local scale observations and international science and governance organisations. In addition, 21 research stations in Russia are currently on pause. The main objective of INTERACT is to build capacity for identifying, understanding, predicting and responding to diverse environmental changes throughout the wide environmental and land-use envelopes of the Arctic. The observing capacity of the Arctic is currently still limited, and INTERACT seeks to leverage that by offering access to the network of research stations for excellent science through its Transnational Access (TA) program. The program has been running for over a decade and here we report how the TA Programme has contributed to achieving the ICARP III targets and how it can help to shape the future research priorities for ICARP IV to achieve impactful and sustainable research in the Arctic.
The session will report results of two unique analyses:
- A survey among the INTERACT TA Users on how their research has contributed towards the ICARP III research priorities, and how has INTERACT TA impacted their research.
- Content analysis of over 550 TA project reports from 2011-2023 on ICARP III research priorities and the Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) keywords.
The analyses focused on trends in the science supported by TA, demographic and geographic trends among TA users, and on the use and impact of research results by TA users in post-project time, e.g. the impact and contribution for ICARP III, funders and policy makers.