The Arctic Academic Action Award provides high-level recognition for innovative ideas that aspire to transform knowledge into action to help address the causes and impacts of climate change in the Arctic. Through this award it is hoped to bring together potential concepts preventing, mitigating, adapting, and reversing Arctic climate change. The cohort of award recipients will form a powerful group of leaders whose ideas will be fostered to develop and implement meaningful solutions and projects to address Arctic climate change.
Nominees should propose creative ideas that are action- and results-oriented and at an early stage of development. These ideas should nevertheless be grounded in academic research and scholarship, while also, where appropriate, giving due regard to the knowledge practices of Arctic residents, including Indigenous peoples. Nominations should describe an action that addresses the causes or impacts of climate change on the Arctic region. Ideas can be broad in scope, or geared toward local issues but could have results scalable to the entire Arctic region, and potentially beyond. Organizers are looking for bright new ideas from people/groups with a demonstrable drive to see something achievable happen, and in the near future.
The Award includes 100,000 Euros of unrestricted funds to help facilitate the development of ideas and increase impact through outreach, engagement, and communication. The recipient(s) will be announced at the Arctic Circle Assembly in October in Reykjavík, Iceland followed by a special reception.
Nomination deadline: 30 April 2024
For more information, including a list of previous recipients, go to:
Arctic Academic Action Award webpage
For questions, contact:
Kristmundur Þór Ólafsson
Email: aaaa@uarctic.org