A research project on Human-Animal relations under climate change in Northern Eurasia (HUMANOR) has received major funding from a new European instrument. The European Joint Programming Initiative on Climate: “Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe” (JPI Climate ) has awarded about two million euros to the project which is led by Professor Bruce Forbes from the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland.
“JPI Climate represents a new European financial instrument for facilitating international interdisciplinary research. We are very proud to have been successful in the first call, for which we received top marks for the proposed research, as well as the highest level of funding. This reflects the top level of expertise among the respective consortium members”, says professor Forbes.
“It further demonstrates the potential for fruitful collaboration and value added to recent and ongoing national and Nordic projects in the realm of societal transformation under climate change. However, the pastoralist social-ecological systems that the HUMANOR project will address extend well beyond the European Research Area, with sites in Western and Eastern Siberia and Mongolia”, professor Forbes comments.
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland will serve as Lead Principal Investigator. The other partners include University of Aberdeen, University of Uppsala, NIKU Tromsö, Swedish Mountain and Sami Museum, Jokkmokk and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås. The project personnel encompasses indigenous scholars and women at all career stages.
JPI Climate web page.
More information:
Research professor Bruce Forbes
tel. 358-40-8479202
email: bforbes@ulapland.fi
www.arcticcentre.org/forbes