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communities. The success of the programmes, research and service depends
on members’ cooperation with indigenous communities and stakeholders.
The next decade calls for improvements in this regards. UArctic 2011
Rectors’ Forum and Student Forum declarations carried important messages
about the need for continuous development. Both directly and indirectly
the declarations reflect the need for enhanced activities that will foster more
capacity to work with safeguarding and further development of the regions
including indigenous languages, culture and knowledge. This underlines
what the previous Rector’s Forum declarations already stated, and is in line
with the overall UArctic goals and strategy.
The next step is to follow up on the operations level. This includes converting
what there was into robust organizational structures. This challenges the network,
but even more the single members themselves. Even if the network agrees of
strong visions and strategic choices, the fulfillment of those depends on well
developed institutional cultures and the practices of each one facilitating research
and training. It is what happens at the delivery end of the line, as experienced
improvements by students and community that counts as added value.
UArctic aims at getting an NGO status and also realizes that to achieve such
status there is a need for our member institutions and UArctic combined
activities to add even more cooperation with UNESCO.
We will integrate e-Learning/flexible learning platforms (e.g. telemedicine,
social networking) into health and education to increase access to information
and formal/informal education.
High-speed internet is a prerequisite for establishing and maintaining
interconnectivity between Arctic communities. Once all communities across
the circumpolar north have access to high-speed internet, UArctic will be
virtually situated to support education and research. Northern societies need
access to community-based educational programmes that will enable them
to determine their own futures. Especially the small indigenous minority
languages need robust infrastructure and state of the art technology adapted
to the diverse linguistic situation.
During the UArctic council meeting in Yakutsk 2010 the VP Indigenous
arranged a break-out session focusing on Ways to Improve Higher Education
Services to Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic by Simultaneously Strengthening
their Language and Culture.
We will give selected examples from the report to show what it focuses on.
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