Ekologos

Ekologos is a collaborative project funded by the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education, coordinated by UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The project brings together institutions from four continents to address critical climate challenges affecting polar, tropical, and highland regions.

The project engages pedagogically with the critical climate changes affecting the Arctic, South America, South Asia, and Himalaya regions. Through student and staff exchanges, and collaborative research, the objective is to critically engage and amplify the voices of local and indigenous communities and those disproportionately impacted by climate change.

The initiative aims to overcome the limitations of conventional approaches to environmental science and knowledge dissemination by combining Western scientific approaches with the perspectives and knowledge systems of traditional and indigenous communities. This enables the development of new, collaborative methodologies and creates multidisciplinary approaches to foster a new generation of resilient, skilled scholars.