By supporting co-operation to exchange knowledge and disseminate best practices, inform research communities conducting indigenous research, the call aims to increase ethical, appropriate and good safeguarding of indigenous perspectives in Nordic research and innovation, and in the long term to contribute to maintaining trust and unity in the Nordic region.
The 11 applications received by the deadline in September represent a wide range of research environments, with everything from natural resource management, schools and education, language preservation, public health, law, human rights, security and violence represented.
Kristin Andersen, Special Advisor at NordForsk and responsible for the Indigenous Research Initiative, says:
"It's exciting to see that so many researchers are interested in networking across countries and disciplines, especially because the activities we fund are not about research per se. It's also great to see so many varied and good networking activities being planned in the projects. Based on the volume of applications, we in the administration are already excited about this call for proposals; the good response shows that these are undoubtedly networks that many research environments see great benefit in participating in."
