Policy Advice Task Group

This is a new Task Group formed December 2020.

It's primary aim will be to coordinate messages from member projects to policy makers, primarily in the European Commission. 

The Policy Advice Task Group lead is Nicole Biebow, AWI (EU-PolarNet and ARICE), and co-lead is Gustav Sigeman, Uppsala University (JUSTNORTH)

This group:

• Includes points of contact for advice representing the expertise of their respective EU Polar Cluster project;
• Will promote a close cooperation between the EU Polar Cluster projects in organising policy briefings or other joint actions.

Tasks:

• To provide fast responses as required to the EC and national decision makers to address any urgent needs and demands for scientific advice;
• To transfer scientific knowledge to regional, national and EU-level policymakers to contribute to evidence-based decision making;
• To interactwith all EU Polar Cluster projects to utilise their expertise for policy advice.

Plans for joint activities

• Used the pool of expertise in the Cluster to support your projects own events/plans;
• Gain more attention by jointly organising Policy briefings or Town Hall Meetings to inform decision makers on Polar topics of high political relevance;
• Consider to jointly produce briefing documents and/orthematicfact sheets targeted to policy makers.

Policy Advice Task Group representatives for the projects are:

APPLICATE	Dragana Bojovic
ARCSAR	Soley Kaldal	Icelandic Coast    Guard
Arctic PASSION	Volker Rachold	AWI Arctic Office
ARICE EU-PolarNet 2	Nicole Biebow	Alfred Wegener Institute
BeyondEPICA	Chiara Venier	Institute of Polar Sciences National Research Council    of Italy
BLUE-ACTION	Steffen Malskaer    Olsen	Danish Meteorological Institute
BLUE-ACTION	Chiara Bearzotti	Danish Meteorological Institute
ECOTIP	Marja Koski	Technical University of Denmark
EPB	Renuka Badhe	European Polar Board
EU-PolarNet 2	Antonio Quesada ,
EU-PolarNet 2	Janet Pawlak
FACE-IT	Annika E. Nilsson	Nordland Research Institute
FORCeS	Matthew Salter	Stockholm University
INTAROS	Stein Sandven
INTAROS	Erik Buch	EuroGOOS
INTAROS	Hanne Sagen	NERCS
INTERACT	Margareta    Johansson	Lund University
JUSTNORTH	Gustav Sigeman	Nord University
KEPLER	Nick Hughes	Met Norway
NUNATARYUK	Tina   Schoolmeester
NUNATARYUK	Leena Viitanen	Alfred Wegener Institute
SIOS	Heikki Lihavainen
TIPACCs	Petra Langebroek