The final report from the Calotte Academy in 2008 is now availabe at the NRF website.

The Calotte Academy started in 1991 in Inari, Finland and  is on one hand, an international forum for both academic and policyoriented open discussion and dialogue on relevant and acute, global and regional and local, (Northern) issues. On the other hand, it is a travelling symposium of experts with a series of sessions and panels to be held in different locations of the European North, or the Barents Sea region. The intention of the Academy is to emphasize the regional dynamics of Northern peripheries and analyse regional development of the region in European, circumpolar and global contexts. In this capacity, the Academy has also served as an international seminar for presentations and scientific, often interdisciplinary, discourses of research projects such as the NordicRussian “Northern Eurasian Geopolitics” (NEG) and the postgraduate project “Multiculturalism in Lapland” at the University of Lapland. The Calotte Academy has been organized annually since 1991 (except the years of 2000 and 2001).

The main aim of the Academy is to promote the interplay between science and politics by having a policyoriented dialogue among junior and senior members of the research community and a wide range of other stakeholders, such as policymakers, civil activists, resource users and business people. Consequently, it has also served since 2002 as a regional subforum and workshop for the NRF to discuss on the themes of the forthcoming Open Assembly. 

The main theme of the 2008 Academy was "Climate Change Defining Human Security" with several integrated sub-themes which were “Climate change as a new discipline for disciplining?”, “Climate change and livelihoods”, “Climate change and indigenous peoples”, “Climate change, oil drilling and transportation”, “Climate change and alternative energy” and “Climate change, sovereignty and international law”. 

To view the outcomes from the Calotte Academy in 2008, please go to the publication section of the NRF or simply click here.