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CAP-SHARE: Building Bridges of Shared Capacity Between Scientists, Policymakers, and Communities
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The CAP-SHARE project is hosting a series of four recorded (2-3 hour) online workshops that will be published online. Each online workshop will have current or ongoing examples of projects who have successful experience in each workshop theme. Based on these themes each workshop will create a draft section of the strategy for capacity sharing. This will then be implemented at the local and international community development activities in 2025-2027.
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What is CAP-SHARE?
Rural northern regions have rich, sensitive, and crucial biodiversity. Its conservation is linked with the capacity of the area’s scientists, policymakers, and communities to collaborate. By bringing people together in actions that are centered on communities and focused on vulnerable stakeholders, CAP-SHARE aims to find more effective ways to work together for the protection of biodiversity – for the future of our region’s nature, culture, and heritage.
Our objectives
The goal of the project is to empower young people and strengthen the relationship between scientists, policymakers, and Arctic communities when it comes to decision-making regarding the protection of biodiversity and climate change mitigation. Emphasis will be placed on cooperation with young people and working towards further collaboration with scientists, policymakers, and communities.
Our objectives are to develop a model for effective capacity sharing towards biodiversity preservation and climate resilience within Arctic communities; and to promote cooperation between communities, scientists, and policymakers.
Activities, such as public online and in-person workshops in collaboration with local museums, and an international youth science symposium, will focus on building solutions based on the following themes:
After each online and in-person workshop, sections of the strategy will be written:
Work package 1: Developing the strategy for capacity sharing. Between 2024-2025, work package 1 consists of four recorded (2-3 hour) online workshops that are published online. Each online workshop will have current or ongoing examples of projects who have successful experience in each theme. Based on the theme of each workshop, a draft section of the strategy will be developed for the implementation of local and international community development activities in work package 2.
Work package 2: Creating bridges: Jointly implementing pilot actions towards solutions. Between 2025-2026 a series of local in-person workshops will be organized by each main partner and their networks. Creating bridges between communities, scientists, and policymakers means creating spaces for dialogue. Here, the focus is on museums and youth organizations. Museums have great potential as intermediaries between scientists, policymakers, and local communities to create a dialogue for capacity sharing and understanding. Furthermore, youth organizations have a history of sharing capacity for democratic civic engagement among youth and elders.
As part of this work package, the Arctic Frontiers and Nordnorsk vitensenter (NNV) will conduct the annual Science for Schools program. Scientists will connect with students in ‘Inspiration Days’, an out-of-classroom learning experience. This will be run as a pilot program on a small scale for schools in Iceland and Finland in collaboration with NMSI and the LUMA center.
Work package 2 aims to pull our partner's knowledge, skills, and experiences together to collaborate on pilot actions with local communities in an international setting. This approach will contribute to community development through the promotion of local museums, science centers, NGOs, and nonprofit youth organizations as spaces for exchange of knowledge and resources; as well as youth engagement with the potential to build youth connection to place. Here the pilot model is linked with local and international actions that build capacity for sustainable development and protection of biodiversity.
Work package 3: CAP-SHARE Multiplier effect: pushing for policy changes and scaling up. Further local workshops, meetings, and a webinar focusing on the Model for Capacity Sharing and a panel at the 2027 Arctic Frontiers conference. The main aim for this work package is to ensure that the Model for Capacity Sharing will be incorporated by municipalities and regional stakeholders beyond our partnerships, with a wider goal to push for solutions to be used at regional and national level. The project will be the focus of a panel at the 2027 Arctic Frontiers conference, and workshops and meetings will be organized in Iceland, Finland, and Norway directly with scientists, communities, municipalities and policymakers.
All CAP-SHARE project partners are part of the YAN Steering Committee; the Lead Partner for CAP-SHARE is the Icelandic Museum of Natural History, with Project Partners being Arctic Frontiers in Norway and the University of Lapland in Finland. They will collaborate with other members of the Steering Committee throughout the project.
The CAP-SHARE Kick-off took place on 04 September 2024, and more information will be posted here as the project progresses.
Our objectives
The goal of the project is to empower young people and strengthen the relationship between scientists, policymakers, and Arctic communities when it comes to decision-making regarding the protection of biodiversity and climate change mitigation. Emphasis will be placed on cooperation with young people and working towards further collaboration with scientists, policymakers, and communities.
Our objectives are to develop a model for effective capacity sharing towards biodiversity preservation and climate resilience within Arctic communities; and to promote cooperation between communities, scientists, and policymakers.
Activities, such as public online and in-person workshops in collaboration with local museums, and an international youth science symposium, will focus on building solutions based on the following themes:
- Co-creating bridges between communities, policymakers, and scientists
- Recognizing intergenerational, local and indigenous knowledge
- Involving youth in place-based actions from conception to policy
After each online and in-person workshop, sections of the strategy will be written:
- Capacity Sharing for Biodiversity as Community and Regional Development
- Recognizing Local and Indigenous Knowledge
- Scientists Collaborating with Communities and Policymakers
- Policymakers Collaborating with Youth and Communities
Work package 1: Developing the strategy for capacity sharing. Between 2024-2025, work package 1 consists of four recorded (2-3 hour) online workshops that are published online. Each online workshop will have current or ongoing examples of projects who have successful experience in each theme. Based on the theme of each workshop, a draft section of the strategy will be developed for the implementation of local and international community development activities in work package 2.
Work package 2: Creating bridges: Jointly implementing pilot actions towards solutions. Between 2025-2026 a series of local in-person workshops will be organized by each main partner and their networks. Creating bridges between communities, scientists, and policymakers means creating spaces for dialogue. Here, the focus is on museums and youth organizations. Museums have great potential as intermediaries between scientists, policymakers, and local communities to create a dialogue for capacity sharing and understanding. Furthermore, youth organizations have a history of sharing capacity for democratic civic engagement among youth and elders.
As part of this work package, the Arctic Frontiers and Nordnorsk vitensenter (NNV) will conduct the annual Science for Schools program. Scientists will connect with students in ‘Inspiration Days’, an out-of-classroom learning experience. This will be run as a pilot program on a small scale for schools in Iceland and Finland in collaboration with NMSI and the LUMA center.
Work package 2 aims to pull our partner's knowledge, skills, and experiences together to collaborate on pilot actions with local communities in an international setting. This approach will contribute to community development through the promotion of local museums, science centers, NGOs, and nonprofit youth organizations as spaces for exchange of knowledge and resources; as well as youth engagement with the potential to build youth connection to place. Here the pilot model is linked with local and international actions that build capacity for sustainable development and protection of biodiversity.
Work package 3: CAP-SHARE Multiplier effect: pushing for policy changes and scaling up. Further local workshops, meetings, and a webinar focusing on the Model for Capacity Sharing and a panel at the 2027 Arctic Frontiers conference. The main aim for this work package is to ensure that the Model for Capacity Sharing will be incorporated by municipalities and regional stakeholders beyond our partnerships, with a wider goal to push for solutions to be used at regional and national level. The project will be the focus of a panel at the 2027 Arctic Frontiers conference, and workshops and meetings will be organized in Iceland, Finland, and Norway directly with scientists, communities, municipalities and policymakers.
All CAP-SHARE project partners are part of the YAN Steering Committee; the Lead Partner for CAP-SHARE is the Icelandic Museum of Natural History, with Project Partners being Arctic Frontiers in Norway and the University of Lapland in Finland. They will collaborate with other members of the Steering Committee throughout the project.
The CAP-SHARE Kick-off took place on 04 September 2024, and more information will be posted here as the project progresses.
