Arctic Centre Annual Report 2021

Annual Report 2021

ARCTIC CENTRE ANNUAL REPORT 2021

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Premiere of the promotion video of the Lapland Cattle project. The goal of the project is to combine academic research and development work in order to promote economic activities based on the specialization on Lapland Cattle. | photo anne raja - hanhela November was a busy month with various events. The JustNorth project organized their own conference on 15 November and produced one session to the Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit on the following days. | photo marko junttila

Editor Anne Raja-Hanhela

Layout & Design Reetta Linna

Cover photo Santeri Happonen

Printed by University of Lapland Printing Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland 2022

The COVID-pandemic still affected the organization of events in the Arctic Centre. Some small-scale public events with limited number of participants where organized such as public lecture by Monica Tennberg in Sahanperän Savotta. | photo anne raja - hanhela Arctic Centre’s traditional Little Christmas Party was literally on fire from the beginning! Wonderful performance by Ayonghe Akonwi and HennaEerika Marttinen. | photo santeri happonen

Contents From the Director Expertise Arktikum

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Publications

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Events and Seminars

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From the Director 4

photo santeri happonen

In February 2021, I started as the director of the Arctic Our key international event, the Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit Centre. Before coming here, I knew the institute’s Conference was held almost normally in November; it reputation well, but I did not know how it looked from was a real milestone for Arctic Centre’s year 2021. the inside. What I could not have seen from the outside In 2021, the aim was to ensure that the foundations is how things actually feel here. In our academic Arctic for the future of the institution are as they should be.

Centre community, colleagues do For this purpose, the Arctic Centre support each other, and you can The combination of our three strategy until the year 2025 was feel the genuinely international finalized. With our vision, mission, key functions – research, atmosphere every day at our values, and goals we are well science centre and science shared coffee table. It is also my placed to improve a comprehensive communications – makes great pleasure that in 2021, we understanding of the Arctic through the Arctic Centre unique. saw quite many new young faces research and science communihere, arriving from many different cation. There remain things to be backgrounds. They will be the future of Arctic research. done, such as strengthening our national profile – it Our key statistics are visible elsewhere in this annual sometimes feels that we are better known internationreport. Here, it is enough to mention that our numbers ally than nationally – and widening the financial base for are in good shape, and we aim to keep them that way. our operations.

We have had a continuous and good flow of published The combination of our three key functions – research results, new financing, and new projects. Arctic research, science centre and science communications Centre research activities were not much affected by – makes the Arctic Centre unique. It is also our greatest the global pandemic during 2021, even if there were strength, and it is important to keep all functions in inevitably some effects. What is more serious is that good shape. The renewal concept of the science centre we have not been able to function quite as we are used was completed, thus making the future renewal work to as an institute: the number of visitors in our science possible. centre and in organized events has been much lower My sincere thanks go to all the staff of the Arctic than usual. However, the doors have been open and still Centre and to all our partners. Your work, your genuine tens of thousands of visitors have entered the Arktikum.

Arctic spirit have again done wonders.

Johanna Ikävalko ARCTIC CENTRE ANNUAL REPORT 2021

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Expertise Visiting personnel

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researchers from 12 countries with average 6 months stay

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Total funding 3 886 134 €*

trainees from 4 countries with average 2 months stay

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projects More information:

research.ulapland.fi

Person years of work 46,44

Basic budget 1 957 404 € / 50 %

Researchers 67 %

External funding 1 928 730 € / 50 %

(e.g. Exhibition Designer, Science Communicator, Project Coordinator, Administrative Secretary)

*Does not include costs of premises and other general expenses

Others 33 %

Head of science communications Markku Heikkilä moderated an online meeting between the students of the University of Lapland and the President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö. | photo santeri happonen ARCTIC CENTRE ANNUAL REPORT 2021

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Arktikum 128 454 107 238

2007

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91 143

88 049 visitors 80 593

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70 369

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77 653 72 945

72 216

73 776 57 571

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Visitors in Arktikum

2021 50 335 visitors

34 % from abroad

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the number of visitors in Arktikum dropped dramatically.

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Arctic Centre staff gathered for a mid-summer coffee break and for a group photo in the Arctic Garden before the summer holiday season. | photo santeri happonen

During the Science Week in September 2018, 1920 schoolchildren learned about Arctic animals and nature, climate change and space by using methods such as programming, chemistry, art and drama. | photo johanna westerlund

Science Centre Exhibitions ▪ ARCTIC IN CHANGE Permanent exhibition ▪ THE CALL OF THINGS 22.10.2020–28.2.2021 ▪ NATURE PHOTOS OF THE YEAR 2.3.–18.4.2021 Winners of the Best Nature Photograph of the Year Competition.

▪ PINIARTOQ – HUNTER 8.4.2021–30.1.2022 Photographic exhibition by Tiina Itkonen ▪ ARCTIC POLARITIES 6.–30.9.2021 Winners of the UArctic photo competition

Manuscript and concept design for the new permanent exhibition in the Arktikum Science Centre was prepared in 2021. The concept design also includes visualizations of the new exhibition with the working title “Arctic Opposites”. photos pentagon design oy

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Visiting photographic exhibition Piniartoq – Hunter was open at the Arktikum Science Centre for 10 months. Tiina Itkonen’s photographs captured an intimate portrait of Inuit subsistence hunters, their families, communities, and landscape. | photo santeri happonen ARCTIC CENTRE ANNUAL REPORT 2021

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Publications 115

Scientific publications

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Professional publications

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Publications for general

More information: research.ulapland.fi/en/organisations/arktinen-keskus

Blogs Northern Political Economy www.arcticcentre.org/NPEblog

Arctic Anthropology arcticanthropology.org

Kaikuja Arktikselta – Arctic Echoes www.arcticcentre.org/kaikuja

Arctic Centre orienteering team participated to the Napapiiri Jukola, the biggest orienteering relay event in the world. The Arctic Centre also had the honour to receive The Message of the Jukola which emphasized the importance of increasing information about the Arctic region and preserving the Arctic nature.

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According to the decades old tradition, soon after crossing the finishing line, the anchor of the winning team will read a message greeting a topical community or group or attracting attention to a matter of importance. | photo santeri happonen

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Events and Seminars ▪ KULTARANTA DISCUSSION TOUR OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC Virtual discussion between President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö and students at the University of Lapland moderated by the Science Communications of the Arctic Centre | 21.4.2021 ▪ ARCTIC CAFÉ: Path to a peat-free energy system?

27.5.2021 ▪ GUIDED TOURS IN THE ARCTIC GARDEN Two public lectures and guided tours in the Arctic Garden as part of the Rovaniemi Week | 12.9.2021 ▪ NORTHERN POLITICAL ECONOMY SYMPOSIUM 2021 How to govern change in the Arctic? | 12.–13.10.2021 ▪ MAXIPAC SYMPOSIUM Best practices for language valorization in Finnish Higher Education | 27.10.2021

▪ PHD COURSE PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH IN A GLOBALIZING NORTH: Facing challenges and finding opportunities for sustainable and equitable societies 25.–29.10.2021 ▪ JUST-NORTH CONFERENCE Toward Just, Ethical and Sustainable Arctic Economies, Environments and Societies | 15.11.2021 ▪ ROVANIEMI ARCTIC SPIRIT A common Arctic or contested spaces? The international public launch of Finnish presidency of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council 16.–17.11.2021 ▪ ARCTIC MARKET DAYS 10.–12.12.2021 ▪ ARCTIC CAFÉ: How to adapt to climate change?

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Traditional Arctic Market Days were organized in Arktikum on 10–12 December 2021. In the event, local producers sell high quality crafts, design and delicacies. | photo santeri happonen ARCTIC CENTRE ANNUAL REPORT 2021

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Contact Arctic Centre, University of Lapland P.O. Box 122 (Pohjoisranta 4, Arktikum House) 96101 Rovaniemi Finland tel. +358 (0)16 341 341 arcticcentre@ulapland.fi

www.arcticcentre.org @arcticcentre @Arctic_Centre @arktikumofficial