Stakeholder Engagement Task Group

Lead by Annette Scheepstra, RUG ()

Background

The stakeholder task group within the EU Polar Cluster was established in early stages of the Cluster as there was a clear need to coordinate and collaborate in stakeholder activities conducted in Polar projects. As the number of EU Polar Cluster projects rise, the need for coordination and collaboration increases with the increased demand for stakeholder engagement.

Mission of the stakeholder task group

The mission of the stakeholder task group is to coordinate and collaborate in organizing joint stakeholder events, this is particularly important when Arctic local and Indigenous communities are being reached out. By working jointly in organizing activities, projects can reduce the stakeholder fatigue and are able to better target the stakeholders and rights holders by pooling the resources available by projects. Pandemic will also influence the future events and actions, as travelling has to more efficient with clear purpose and by combining needs of several projects into same event that spreads over two days or more, is beneficial in many ways.  

Specific items to be decided and discussed in the task group: 

• Joint terminology: The terminology we agree to use across this task group: what do we mean with “stakeholders”? Find the explanation in this section of the wiki.
• Stakeholder mapping: Maps of the stakeholders in the clustered projects, with links to deliverables and reports on the mapping.
• Stakeholder engagement: Links to the documents related to the stakeholder engagement methodology, approach.
• Indigenous engagement: How to engage with the indigenous communities.

Stakeholder Engagement Task Group project contacts:

APPLICATE	Marta Terrado	Barcelona Supercomputing Center
ARCSAR	Penelope Wagner	Norwegian Meteorological Institute
ARCSAR	Robert Lynch	Halpin Centre for Research  and Innovation
Arctic PASSION	Janet Pawlak	AMAP
BLUE-ACTION	Chiara Bearzotti	Danish Meteorological Institute
ECOTIP	Rikke Becker Jacobsen	Aalborg University
EPB	Pjotr Elshout	European Polar Board
EPB	Renuka Badhe	European Polar Board
EU-PolarNet 2	Annette Scheepstra	University of Gronigen
EU-PolarNet 2	Kirsi Latola	University of Oulu
EU-PolarNet 2	Janet Pawlak
FACE-IT	Maiken Bjørkan	Nordland Research Institute
FORCeS	Matthew Salter	Stockholm University
INTAROS	Erik Buch	EuroGOOS
INTERACT	Niklas Labba
JUSTNORTH	Tanja Joona	University of Finland
KEPLER	Penelope Wagner	Norweigen Meteorological Institute
NUNATARYUK	Justine Ramage	Nordregio
SIOS	Dariusz Ignatiuk	SIOS
SO-CHIC	Renuka Badhe	European Polar Board