The first workshop of Arctic5 project was held on October 2018 in Tromso and it started the work with brainstorming and creating a first draft of curriculum of the joint Online Master Study Course on Arctic Inclusive Pedagogy.

The second workshop continued the work started in Tromso, by continuing co-creating the curriculum further and by developing the content and learning goals for the Online Study Course. The workshop group also chose Open Moodle as digital learning platform of the Online Study Course. The workshop was very successful and all the participants were satisfied with the workshop and its results.

The program of the workshop included working in smaller group formed based on the research interest of each participant, but also in one big group, to assure the consistency of the curriculum and balance between the parts of curriculum. The students participated in the workshop as equal members and contributed to the workshop by reflecting and leading the discussion on values in inclusive education and bringing the values in practice in the study course.

As the goal of the project is to develop a joint Online Master Study Course, the project group has already planned wider collaboration in the future: the aim is to develop joint Nordic master study programme. The planned study course will offer students new approaches and new content within each university – this kind of study program does not exist yet. The project group has also planned to start collaboration in research activities.

The workshop group gathered together people from five Nordic Arctic Universities:
Luleå University of Technology: Eva Alerby, Nicklas Ekberg, Åsa Gardelli and Kattis Endström (student).

UiT The Arctic University of Norway: Gregor Maxwell and Greta Heim (student)
Umeå University: Björn Norlin, Carina Rönnqvist, Karin Sporre, Charlotta Svonni (student) and Katarina Parfa Koskinen (student)

University of Lapland: Erika Sarivaara, Outi Kyrö-Ämmälä, Janette Peltokorpi, Jaana Severidt, Suvi Lakkala, Vilma Lamminpää (student), Hannah Lumila (student) and Laura Junttila (student).

University of Oulu: Marjatta Takala and Suvi Kauppi