29 March 2026 | 13:30 - 14:30 CET
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: Mogens Zielerstuen
Organiser: Jan Rene Larsen (Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON))
Session Description:
The Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) is a biennial summit that aims to provide guidance based on the best available knowledge for the design, implementation, coordination and sustained long-term (decades) operation of an international network of Arctic observing systems. The first AOS was organised for the first time in 2013 and has since then defined its Procedures and Processes. The meeting will discuss status and governance of the AOS
Participants recognised the responsibility of the current generation to pass on the knowledge needed to meet the challenges of the changing Arctic and also recognised the widening impacts of change in earth's polar regions. Educators, ECRs from diverse communities around the globe reconsidered the Arctic as linked to their work and lives, rather than a remote and irrelevant place.
This meeting invites reflections on the Global Conversation as a network for interchange and asks whether creative, open-ended, cross-cultural conversation can be a useful forum to consider what education infrastructure might be required for supporting the life and work of future generations in order to build resilience.
Topics have varied; 'What kind of skills and capabilities are needed by the young scientists and knowledge holders who will become the next generation of leaders?', 'How can life-wide learning, honouring the indigenous calendar and embedding community-driven observation empower local children?' and 'Who should initiate local research, Why?'
We reflect on this journey from the Arctic School, Yakutsk, Ikarvik and Smart Ice (2022) via discussion with members of youth groups and reindeer communities (2023 Semen Gabishev and Alexandre Lavrillier) Arctic Hub, Greenland, and the Unangax̂ Ocean, introduced to us by a member of Qigiiĝun Tribe, Akutan, Alaska and ask how to widen and share the conversation in through PEI's emerging Strategic Plan.