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peoples, through education, training and shared knowledge. UArctic also seeks
to promote excellence in knowledge generation and knowledge application in
areas relevant to the North.
UArctic Members and Strategy
The UArctic membership body consists of members form the circumpolar area
throughout all 8 Arctic Council member states, as well as associate members
outside the Arctic that has strong interests in education and research in the Arctic.
Currently UArctic has more than 130 members; together members have
approximately 1 billion students and more than 70 thousand academic faculty.
Even if not all students or faculty are directly engaged in UArctic activities,
the network as such represents a huge potential for regional development in
the Arctic.
With regard to the indigenous profile, many UArctic members have strong ties
to indigenous communities. Many of them offer relevant academic programmes
and have designated departments and research programmes specifically
dedicated to service their indigenous constituency. Besides this, among the
UArctic members we also find smaller institutions that specialize on serving
the needs of indigenous peoples highly focusing specifically on human, social
and cultural development.
With the current vision and goals UArctic represents a huge potential for
further development of the cultural and linguistic diversity in the North, when
carefully planned and carried out in practice. Visions and strategies however
need implementation into institutional cultures and individual practices and
the results need to be identified at the receivers’ end. It is only when students,
researchers and the northern communities together experience the fulfillment
of their goals and aspiration, that we have a good indication of success of the
added value of network.
As already initially indicated, University of the Arctic as a network was
established inter alia to create an improved and expanded platform for postsecondary
education for indigenous peoples of the Arctic.
This is clearly stated by the University of the Arctic Governing Bodies, and
the strategic plan for the 2009–2013 provides evidence in this regard. It states
a clear goal, and a clear strategy: UArctic shall look to increase leadership of
indigenous peoples in the operation and governance, as well as programmatic
activities of UArctic. Let us look at the following quotation from the UArctic
strategic plan 2009–2013:
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