This initiative aims to make indigenous environmental knowledge accessible to a broad public in Russian civil society with regard to rapid climate change and thus promote discourse on values. Results of scientific research and documented indigenous environmental knowledge are brought together and made accessible to younger generations in particular via virtual exhibitions and new social media. With the audiovisual documentation of sustainable nature use and corresponding ritually transmitted behavior, innovative uses of traditional environmental knowledge can be developed with the help of new digital technologies and social media in order to preserve and further develop cultural heritage. The results are meant to form the basis for further future initiatives, with which young people in particular are to be involved to an even greater extent in documentation and multiplication processes of traditional knowledge – for example, through the development of participatory smartphone apps.
Project
Alfred-Wegener-Institute and Helmholtz Climate Initiative “Regional Climate Change and its Effects on People" (REKLIM)”, Bremerhaven / Potsdam
For the past several years the Helmholtz Climate Initiative “Regional Climate Change and its Effects on People (REKLIM)” and the Climate Office for Polar Regions and Sea Level Rise at the Alfred Wegener Institute have pursued knowledge transfer between the research community and society, developing a range of dialogue formats and data portals for this purpose. One of their focus areas involves the polar regions, and the Arctic in particular. The portal meeresportal.de presents the latest information and data on all aspects of sea ice, reviewed and assessed by experts. In turn, through their joint project "Gateway to the Arctic", REKLIM and the Climate Office, together with the University of Paris Saclay, have organized a series of workshops that is dedicated to transdisciplinary research on the Arctic, and promotes exchanges between young university students on the topic of the dramatically changing living conditions in the Arctic. REKLIM and the Climate Office are both based at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research.
Contact
Kulturstiftung Sibirien gGmbH
Geschäftsführer:
Dr. Erich Kasten
Uferweg 4
D-16798 Fürstenberg/Havel
Tel +49(0)33093-60671
Partners
Funding
Sponsored by the Eastern Partnership and Russia Program of the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.
